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 |
| Manager | Scott Hamilton |
| League | West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division |
| 2016–17 | West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division, 15th of 20 |
Bilston Town Football Club is a football club based in Bilston, West Midlands, England. Having played under the names Bilston United, Bilston Borough, Bilston, Bilston Town, Bilston Town (2007) and Bilston Town Community, they are currently members of the West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division and play at Queen Street.
The club was founded in 1894 as a merger of Bilston Rovers and Bilston Wanderers, and was initially known as Bilston United. In the same year they joined the Walsall & District Junior League. After finishing fourth in their first season, they won the league in 1895–96. The league was renamed the Walsall & District League in 1897 and the club were runners-up in 1898–99. They won the league again in 1900–01 and retained the title the following season, before finishing as runners-up in 1902–03. After finishing third in 1906–07, the club moved up to the Birmingham Combination, where they finished as runners-up in their first season.
Bilston remained in the Combination until the end of the 1920–21 season, when they joined the Birmingham & District League. They were runners-up to Shrewsbury Town in 1922–23 and spent the rest of the 1920s in mid-table before finishing second-from-bottom in 1929–30. They left the league at the end of the 1931–32 season, dropping into the Walsall & District League and changing their name to Bilston Borough.
Their first season back in the Walsall & District League saw Bilston win the league title, a feat they repeated in 1935–36, before finishing the 1937–38 season as runners-up. After disbanding in 1939 due to World War II, the club was reformed in 1946 under the name Bilston. Rejoining the renamed Walsall Senior, they were champions in 1947–48, after which they rejoined the Birmingham Combination in 1948, finishing second-from-bottom of the league in 1950–51. They were runners-up in 1953–54, the last season before the league merged into the Birmingham & District League, with Bilston placed in the Northern Division. An eighth-place finish in 1954–55 saw the club placed in Division One the following season. However, after finishing in the bottom four, they were relegated to Division Two.
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