Bilston Town F.C.
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| Full name | Bilston Town Community Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Steelmen |
| Founded | 1894 |
| Ground | Queen Street, Bilston |
| Capacity | 4,000 (300 seated) |
| Chairman | Graham Hodson |
| Manager | Scott Hamilton |
| League | West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division |
| 2016–17 | West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division, 15/20 |
Bilston Town Football Club is an English association football club based in Bilston, West Midlands. In the 2016–17 season they are playing in the West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division for the fourth successive season. On 23 July 2013 they confirmed their promotion to the WM(R)L Premier Division following a successful appeal to the Football Association at Wembley to uphold their 2012-13 promotion, after initially having their promotion rejected. In 2007 the club folded but was rescued by a consortium, re-formed as Bilston Town (2007) and accepted into the West Midlands (Regional) League Division Two. In 2015 the team adopted the name Bilston Town Community and is now competing in the West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division.
The club was founded in 1894 after Bilston Rovers and Bilston Wanderers merged to form Bilston United In 1919 the club moved to Queen Street in Bilston. Between 1894 and 1939 the club was known as Bilston United and Bilston Borough and they played in various local cup competitions as well as the Walsall & District League and Birmingham Combination league. The club was disbanded in 1939 due to the outbreak of World War Two. The club reformed in 1946 simply as Bilston F.C. In 1954 the team joined the Birmingham & District League and won the championship in 1960–61 and again in 1972–73 (by which time the league had been renamed the West Midlands Regional League). In 1983 the club's name changed to Bilston Town F.C.
After finishing as West Midlands Regional League runners-up in 1984–85, the Steelmen were promoted to the Southern Football League, where they spent seventeen seasons in the Midland Division (later re-organised as the Western Division). Their best finish (3rd place) came in 2000–01, but the following season they could only finish 17th, after which they resigned for financial reasons and dropped three levels to the West Midlands League Division One.
After the 2006–07 season Bilston resigned from the West Midlands (Regional) League. In June the club's chairman issued a statement on the club's future:
Shortly after this the club's official website was shut down. The club was taken from the owners, and reformed as Bilston Town (2007) and accepted back into the West Midlands (Regional) League for the 2007–08 season, albeit in Division Two. The club finished the season in second place behind Wellington Amateurs.
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