Wolverhampton Casuals F.C.

Wolverhampton Casuals

Full name

Wolverhampton Casuals Football Club

Nickname(s)

The Cassies

Founded

1899

Ground

Brinsford Lane, Wolverhampton52°38′42.55″N 2°07′31.13″W / 52.6451528°N 2.1253139°WCoordinates: 52°38′42.55″N 2°07′31.13″W / 52.6451528°N 2.1253139°W

Capacity

tbc

Chairman

Gareth Deacon^[1]

Manager

Mark Holdcraft

League

West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division

2016–17

West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division, 2nd of 20

Home colours

Away colours

Wolverhampton Casuals Football Club are a football club based in Wolverhampton, England. They were established in 1899. They have played in the West Midlands (Regional) League since 1982, and in the 1989–90 season they reached the First Round of the FA Vase. They are members of the West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division. They play their home games at Brinsford Lane, and also compete in the Walsall Senior Cup – a competition they last won in 2000–01.

History

Wolverhampton Casuals Football Club was established in 1899. They joined West Midlands (Regional) League Division Two in 1982–83 and were promoted to Division One the following season. They finished runners-up in Division One for three successive seasons, and were promoted to the Premier Division in 1987–88 after a fourth-place finish. The club reached the First Round of the FA Vase in 1989–90, however The Cassies were relegated back to Division One in 1991. They regained their Premier Division status after winning the league in 1994–95. In 2010–11, the club were runners-up in the League Cup.^[2] For the 2011–12 season local management duo Lee Cooke and Carl Abbott took control of the first team, and following a squad rebuild guided the side to its best ever, 3rd-place finish in the Premier Division.

Midway through the 2012-13 season, with the side in 4th place in the table, Lee Cooke resigned his position as joint manager on 15 December 2012. Carl Abbott took sole charge of the first team. During the course of the 2012-13 season Casuals reached the first qualifying round of the FA Cup, taking Midland Alliance side Tividale to a replay, before going out, having disposed of Tipton Town and Pilkington XXX in earlier rounds. The team finished the season again in 3rd place, in a tightly contested championship with Lye Town and eventual winners AFC Wulfrunians, achieving 97 points for the season, a best ever league record achieved. Casuals also ended the season as runners up in the JW Hunt Cup, finalists for the first time in the club's history, narrowly losing out in the final to Black Country Rangers.

The following season the team secured their third consecutive 3rd-placed finish in the Premier Division, this time achieving 98 points, again a best ever league record achieved in the club's history, and only 3 points short of the title. At the end of the season, after a successful four-year spell, Carl Abbott resigned his position as manager in order to take the managerial position at Hinckley. He was replaced by former Sporting Khalsa manager Mark Holdcraft.

Ground

Brinsford Lane boasts a clubhouse, a tearoom, and a small stand with bench seating for approximately 150 people. Its distinctive ivy-covered dugouts were featured in David Bauckham's book Dugouts.^[3]

Honours

West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division^[2]
- Runners-up 2016-17
West Midlands (Regional) League Division One^[2]
- Champions 1994–95
- Runners-up 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87
West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division League Cup^[2]
- Runners-up 2010–11
JW Hunt Cup
- Runners up 2012–13
Walsall Senior Cup
- Winners 2000-01
Staffordshire Vase
- Winners 1997-98
- Runners-up 1998-99

Records

Best league position: Runners up in West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division, 2016-17
Best FA Cup performance: First Qualifying Round, 2012–13
Best FA Vase performance: Second Round, 2016–17

References

↑ Official website
1 2 3 4 Wolverhampton Casuals at the Football Club History Database
↑ Bauckham, David (2006). Dugouts. New Holland. ISBN 1-84537-478-9.

External links

2017–18 West Midlands (Regional) League
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