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Nickname(s)
  
The Wrens

Founded
  
1922

Ground Capacity
  
2,201 (221 seats)

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Full name
  
Rainworth Miners Welfare Football Club

Ground
  
Welfare Ground Kirklington Road Rainworth, Mansfield

Manager
  
Julian Watts & Ady Smith

2015–16
  
Northern Counties East League Premier Division, 9th

League
  
Northern Premier League Division One South

Rainworth Miners Welfare Football Club is a football club formed in 1922 and based in Rainworth, near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England.

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HistoryEdit

The club (also sometimes styled as Rufford Colliery F.C.) spent the greater part of their existence in the Notts Alliance, winning that league 10 times, including a record six in succession between 1977 and 1983. They also recorded league cup and county cup success in that spell, and had some lengthy runs in the FA Vase, including reaching the final in 1981–82, when they lost the final 3–0 to Forest Green Rovers at Wembley Stadium.

After a period of less success, the club won two more Alliance titles in the mid-1990s, and then began to build for a rise up the football pyramid. Floodlights had been erected at their Kirklington Road ground in 1991, with covered accommodation following, which has since been extended, and seating installed. This enabled the club to be accepted for the Central Midlands League in 2003. They finished third in the lower ("Premier") division in their first season, earning promotion to the Supreme Division where they played until they were promoted to the Northern Counties East League Division One in 2007.

On 18 April 2009, they earned promotion to the Premier Division as runners-up, after a 3–0 win at Worsbrough Bridge.

In May 2010, Bridlington Town formally notified the FA that they would not accept promotion to the Northern Premier League. Consequently, Rainworth MW were promoted to the NPL Division One South ready for the 2010–11 season. On 13 April 2015 it was announced that the club had resigned from the NPL.

Club honoursEdit

  • Notts Alliance champions – 1971–72, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1990–91, 1995–96, 1996–97
  • Notts Alliance Senior Cup winners – 1970–71, 1977–78, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1994–95
  • Nottinghamshire Senior Cup winners – 1980–81, 1981–82
  • F.A. Vase runner-up – 1981–82
  • Record attendance – 5071 v Barton Rovers, 1982 F.A. Vase semi-final second leg.

    • PlayersEdit

    As of 17 April 2015.

    Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

    References

    Rainworth Miners Welfare F.C. Wikipedia
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