Rainworth Miners Welfare F.C.
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| Full name | Rainworth Miners Welfare Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Wrens | ||
| Founded | 1922 | ||
| Ground | Welfare Ground Rainworth, Mansfield (Capacity: 2000 (221 seats)) |
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| Chairman | Brian Reece | ||
| Manager | Rudy Funk | ||
| League | Northern Counties East League Premier Division | ||
| 2008-09 | Northern Counties East League Division One, 2nd (Promoted) | ||
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Rainworth Miners Welfare F.C. is a football club formed in 1922 and based Rainworth, near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England.
The club (also sometimes styled as Rufford Colliery F.C.) spent the greater part of their existence in the Notts Alliance, winning that league no less than 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 had 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.
[edit] Club honours
- 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.
[edit] Players
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Coordinates: 53°07′12.04″N 1°06′54.57″W / 53.1200111°N 1.1151583°W
