South Kirkby Colliery F.C.
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| Full name | South Kirkby Colliery Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Kirkbyites, Kirkby |
| Founded | 1894 as South Kirkby |
| Ground | Miner's Welfare Ground, Millar's Walk, South Kirkby |
| Manager | Richard Millward |
| League | Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior League Division One |
| 2016–17 | Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior League Division One, 2nd of 14 (promoted) |
| Website | Club home page |
South Kirkby Colliery Football Club is an football club based in South Kirkby, West Yorkshire, England. The team play in the Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior League Division One, the twelfth tier of the English football league system. Formed as South Kirkby the club were later adopted by the nearby colliery and eventually changed their name to South Kirkby Colliery.
In 1911-12 the club were beaten by Sheffield United in the final of the Wharncliffe Charity Cup at Hillsborough Stadium. The Wharncliffe Charity Cup was first competed in 1878, won first by Sheffield Wednesday. In 1929-30 and 1940-41 the club won the Sheffield & Hallamshire Senior Cup, the oldest county cup in England. They are former members of the Yorkshire Football League and have played in the FA Cup on numerous occasions
The club play at the Miner's Welfare Ground, Millar's Walk, South Kirkby.
The club were formed at least as early as 1894 as South Kirkby and went on to become the works team of South Kirkby Colliery. The earliest known fixture for the club is a postponed match in 1894, though it is not clear which competition this was. The club initially competed in the Minor Cup Division Two of the Barnsley Association Football Union in the 1894-95 season, before joining the Barnsley Association Football Union League Division A for the 1896-97 season, winning the Minor Cup that season. By the end of the 1898/99 season the club had suffered two successive relegations in the Barnsley Association Football Union league structure and spent the 1899/00 and 1900/01 seasons outside that league system, returning to the Barnsley Association Football Union Minor Cup league for the 1901/02 season. The 1901/02 season was a successful one but due to the Barnsley Association Football Union altering its league system the Minor Cup league became the top division and the Junior Cup became the second division and despite being promoted the club remained in the Minor Cup league. What had been the top division, the Challenge Cup league, became a knockout competition. In the 1902-03 season the club joined the Sheffield Association League and used their place in the Barnsley Association Minor Cup league for the reserves. The club were well supported by the workers of the colliery, who donated a small sum from their wages per week, making the club quite well off, though the club were known as South Kirkby and not known as South Kirkby Colliery until later in their history, the first known use of the name was in the 1904-05 season.
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