Swallownest F.C.

Swallownest F.C. is an English football club based in Swallownest, Rotherham, South Yorkshire. They are currently members of the Northern Counties East League Division One.

Swallownest
Full nameSwallownest Football Club
Founded2006 (as Aston)
GroundMiners Welfare Ground, Swallownest
ChairmanMick Kent
LeagueNorthern Counties East League Division One
2019–20Northern Counties East League Division One (season abandoned)

History

The club first entered senior league football as Aston[1] in 2006, playing in the South Yorkshire Amateur League (SYAL). They won promotion from Division 1 in their first year and followed that up by winning the SYAL title a year later.

In the summer of 2008 they were admitted to the Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior League (S&HCSL), starting in Division Two. They won two successive promotions to reach the County Senior League Premier Division by 2010, when they changed their name to Swallownest Miners Welfare.[2] A previous team representing the Miners Welfare had competed in the Yorkshire League during the 1960s. In their first season at Step 7 of the National League System, the new Miners Welfare FC clinched the County Senior League championship.

In 2014/15 they applied for promotion to the Northern Counties East League (NCEL) but ultimately failed to pass a ground grading inspection, and in 2015/16 (the year they were renamed as simply Swallownest[3]) they finished in too low a position to attain promotion. Finally, after winning the S&HCSL Premier Division for a second time in 2017, they won promotion to the NCEL Division One.[4]

Season-by-season record

Grounds

The club originally played at the Leonard Kyte ground in the neighbouring village of Aughton. Upon joining the Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior League in 2008, the club moved to the Swallownest Miners Welfare ground on Sheffield Road, where they have remained since.

The southern end of the ground in 2015

Honours

References
  1. Aston Football Club History Database
  2. Swallownest Miners Welfare Football Club History Database
  3. Swallownest Football Club History Database
  4. http://toolstation.ncefl.org.uk/news/league/2016/4318-201718ncelcluballocationapproved/

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