Harworth Colliery Football Club History

The football club was formed in 1931, playing initially in the local leagues. We then joined the Yorkshire League in the 1946/47 season, but stayed there for only four seasons, before moving to the Doncaster Senior League where we played for many years.

We then joined the Sheffield County Senior League, and these were the most productive years in terms of trophies won. We became the first club to win both the Wharncliffe Charity Cup and County Senior League Championship in 1975/76, the club's most successful side to date.

In 1977, the Yorkshire League accepted the club back in to its membership, before in the 80’s this merged with the Midlands League to become the NCEL. During the 1980's, Colliery played in the North Counties East League, which again was a very successful period for the club, before going into the newly formed Central Midlands in 1986, where the club remained until 2018, when the 1st team won the Central Midlands North Division and returned back to the NCEL after a 32 year absence, only to last a single year as the club finished bottom when only requiring a point from the last two games that would have seen us survive.

The promotion season and the Counties season was a turbulent time for the club with three different mangers in the space of 18 months, which is very un-colliery like to say the least, we pride our self on building a solid foundation, so wasn’t an easy time even though it was at that time our most successful period for decades.

The club has seen general improvement in all areas over the past six to seven seasons with the ground seeing lots of changes, new 50 seater memorial Stand in honour of our greatest Servant Robert Needham, new Toms Tea Room within the ground and replacing the old winding gear rope for the new fencing, so with the walls also being extended behind both goals the pitch is now fully enclosed, new Gents/Ladies/Disabled toilets have also been built in the ground and an old dilapidated area of the ground has now been transformed as the old tea hut is now the shaft side bar area which was extended in the 23-24 season where supporters can congregate over a drink and enjoy the game.

Floodlights have been replaced with LED’s that will last the test of time, so a huge investment from all concerned, we are very proud of the improvement around the ground and it remains our main focus away from the teams to do so year in year.

Our Senior set up is made up of 1st team in the Central Midlands North Division, Development who compete in the Central Midlands Alliance Division one and U21’s who play midweek in the North Midlands Development league.
Unfortunately we have lost our ladies side after nearly a decade but its something we are looking to switch back on ASAP.

Season 2021-2022 will go down as one to remember after having the previous two seasons affected with the pandemic, we bounced back with 3 of our senior teams winning their respective leagues with Reserves, Ladies and the U21’s completing the treble with League Cup and Mini shield, a truly incredible achievement by all and our U21’s nearly followed this up again in 2023-2024 winning the league and Champion of Champions, but losing out in the League Cup Final, but another stellar season.

The club is also very proud of our ever-increasing Junior set up including two girl teams, we have struggled as a club to get good young local players involved at a senior level due to a shortage of junior sides, which is something we are working to address.

Club Honours:
Sheffield & Hallamshire County FA - Senior Cup Winners 1947/48, Finalists 1948/9, 1996/97
Central Midlands Football League - Supreme Division Champions 1987/88.
CML North Winners 2017-2018
Central Midlands Football Division One North Winners 2021-2022
B.E. Webbe (Removals) Challenge cup Winners 1986/87, 1987/88
Wakefield Floodlit Cup Winners 1991/92, 1995/96, Runners Up 1989/90
Sheffield County Senior League Champions 1964/65, 1976/77
Wharncliffe Charity Cup Winners 1960/61, 1962/63, 1975/76
NMDFL U21’s Central League Winners 2021-2022, 2023-2024
NMDFL U21’s League Cup winners 2021-2022
NMDFL U21’s Mini shield Winners 2021-2022, Champion of Champions 2023-2024
NMDFL U21's North League Winners 2024-2025

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