Kidderminster Harriers
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| Surname | Kidderminster Harriers Football Club | ||
| Seat | Kidderminster , England | ||
| founding | 1886 | ||
| Board | Barry Norgrove | ||
| Website | harriers.premiumtv.co.uk | ||
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| Head coach | Steve Burr | ||
| Venue | Aggborough | ||
| Places | 6.238 | ||
| league | National League North | ||
| 2019/20 | 15th place | ||
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The Kidderminster Harriers (officially: Kidderminster Harriers Football Club ) - also known as The Harriers - are an English football club from the city of Kidderminster , which currently takes part in the sixth class National League North . The club's greatest successes were five years in the lowest division of English professional football at the beginning of the 21st century , and two appearances in the Wales Cup final in the 1980s .
history
The club was created in 1880 from the merger of an athletics club founded in 1877 called Kidderminster Harriers with a local rugby club to form Kidderminster Harriers and Football Club (football then stood for rugby football and not soccer). In 1886 the club decided to switch to the increasingly popular Association Rules and become a football club.
In 1889, the Harriers became a founding member of the Birmingham & District League , which was one of the strongest leagues outside the Football League system at the beginning of the 20th century . In the first season the Harriers were runner-up and after the season merged with the master Kidderminster Olympic . For the first championship after the merger, however, you had to wait almost half a century until 1938, after defending their title in 1939 the Harriers were accepted into the higher-class Southern League , but after just three games the Second World War began and the league stopped playing.
After the Second World War they played in the Southern League until 1960, before they withdrew from the league in lower class leagues due to financial problems, but returned in 1972.
After the Harriers had missed qualification for the Alliance Premier League , newly founded by the Southern League and the Northern Premier League , as the highest English amateur league, they rose to this in 1982.
In the 1980s the club achieved some success in British cup competitions. First they reached the final of the Welsh Cup , which was still open to English clubs at the time, in 1986 , but lost 1: 2 to AFC Wrexham . In 1986 the Harriers won the FA Trophy after a 2-1 stoppage time in the replay against Burton Albion and in 1989 they stood a second time in the final of the Welsh Cup, but lost again, this time Swansea City .
In the 1990s, in addition to two other FA Trophy finals participations, there was also success in the league now renamed Conference. In 1994 they became champions, in 1997 runners-up and again in 2000. While the Football League's license conditions had failed at the first championship, the club has now been promoted to this and became a fully professional club for the first time in over 100 years. In the Football League, the club always had to fight relegation and relegated again after five years.
Stadion
The Harriers have played their home games at Aggborough since 1890 . It has a capacity of 6,238 of which 3,140 seats. After the club was refused a license for the Football League in 1994 due to the desolate condition of the wooden main grandstand, a new building was built in 1994.
Web links
- The Harriers website ( English )