Full name | Haughmond Football Club |
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Nickname(s) | The Academicals, The Mond |
Ground | Shrewsbury Sports Village, Shrewsbury |
League | West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division |
2015–16 | West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division, 5th |
Haughmond Football Club is an English football club based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. The club participates in the West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division, the 10th tier of English football.
The club were promoted from the Shropshire County Premier Football League to the West Midlands League in 2011. After just one season they were promoted to Division One, having won the Division Two championship in 2012. After two seasons in Division One, Haughmond won promotion in 2014 to the Premier Division of the League having finishing second (behind champions AFC Bridgnorth).
The club is named after Haughmond Hill, which can be seen from the Sundorne pitches the team plays at.
Haughmond is at present the second highest-placed (in the English league structure) football club in Shrewsbury.