Whitchurch Alport F.C.
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| Full name | Whitchurch Alport Football Club |
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| Founded | 1946 |
| Ground | Yockings Park, Whitchurch, Shropshire SY13 1PG. |
| Chairman | Andy Hough |
| Manager | Luke Goddard & Carl Everall |
| League | North West Counties League Division One |
| 2016–17 | North West Counties League Division One, 5th of 22 |
Whitchurch Alport is an English football club based in Whitchurch, Shropshire, England.
The club were formed in 1946 in the football season that followed World War II, being named after Alport Farm in Alport Road, Whitchurch, which had been the home of a local footballer called Coley Maddocks who had been killed in action in the same war. That season it joined the Shrewsbury and District League, spending two seasons in the league, winning the league in their second season. In 1948 they were briefly elected as members of the Birmingham League, before becoming founder members of the Mid-Cheshire League.
In 1974 they became the last English team to take the Welsh Amateur Cup out of Wales prior to its becoming the Welsh Intermediate Cup, defeating Cardiff College of Education 2-1 at Latham Park, Newtown.
They were admitted to the North West Counties League Division One from the Mercian Regional Football League in 2015.
Coordinates: 52°58′21″N 2°40′21″W / 52.9724°N 2.6725°W
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