COLESHILL
TOWN
PROGRAMME
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COLESHILL
TOWN
FOOTBALL CLUB
HISTORY
Coleshill
Town
were founded in 1894 making them
one of the oldest clubs in non-league football and the oldest in Warwickshire.
Until 1964 they played mostly in junior leagues, but then local rivals Coleshill
Hall F.C. folded and the cream of their players joined Town. As the standard
improved, they joined the Mercian League and then the Combination in 1968
winning Division Two in 1969/70, and the Combination Cup in 1970. Playing at the
Memorial Park, the club needed it’s own ground to get promotion and in 1974
they moved to their present site Packmeadow. Promotion to the top flight of the
Combination soon followed in 1975 and there they have stayed apart from one
season in Div 1 for thirty years. Coleshill greatest achievements saw them
Premiership runners up in 1983/84 and winning the Walsall Senior Cup in 1983.
Other highlights include a run in the Birmingham Senior Cup 1988/89 beating
Birmingham
City
then holding Wolverhampton Wanderers to a draw. The replay at Molineux was
against the Wolves first team including the outstanding young strikers Steve
Bull and Andy Mutch. The Colemen more than matched their
Black Country
opponents for over an hour. Although Town tired and conceded late goals they
prevented Steve Bull from scoring, something that the Scottish International
team failed to achieve at
Hampden
Park
a few weeks later. Old Boys include Danny Hagen, the former Irish International
who played in the U.E.F.A. Cup Final for Wolves in 1972, and ex W.B.A.
goalkeeper Roger Tye, but our greatest son is without doubt Gary Shaw who was
picked up by Villa whilst playing for Coleshill as a sixteen year old.
In more recent times the club enjoyed the 1995/96 season under Martin
Socket who led the side to the top of the Premiership before leaving to join Dr
Martin’s VS Rugby. A succession of managers have come and gone, usually taking
all the players with them but the current Manager, Mick Beadle, is in his third
year with the club and has steadily improved the side from fourth bottom to
ninth last season and although he has a very young side, a top six is this
year’s aim. For the start of this season Coleshill have introduced a second
and third team to compliment the first and the successful Youth team, who
compete in the Premier Floodlit League. The Ladies team are also establishing
themselves in Coleshill’s colours and everything is in place for Charter Mark
Status which has been applied for. The club also fields junior sides from Under
9’s to Under 16’s in the Central Warwickshire League and operates a thriving
Mini-Soccer
School
on a Saturday morning.
COLESHILL
TOWN
FOOTBALL CLUB
PACK
MEADOW,
PACKINGTON LANE
,
COLESHILL,
BIRMINGHAM
B46 3JQ
TEL:-01675
463259