Solihull Moors
| Solihull Moors | |||
| Basic data | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Solihull Moors Football Club | ||
| Seat | Solihull | ||
| founding | 2007 | ||
| Website | solihullmoorsfc.co.uk | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Jimmy Shan | ||
| Venue | Damson Park | ||
| Places | 4313 | ||
| league | National League | ||
| 2019/20 | 9th place | ||
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Solihull Moors (officially: Solihull Moors Football Club ) - also known as The Moors - is an English football club from the city of Solihull in the West Midlands . The club was formed in 2007 from the merger of the clubs Solihull Borough and Moor Green and has played in the national league since then .
history
Moor Green has been forced to play at Damson Park , Solihull Borough's stadium , since its home stadium's main stand was badly damaged in January 2005 due to arson and fire fighting and both clubs were out of financial difficulties in the 2006/07 season Problems and declining audience numbers plagued. While Moor Green competed in the sixth class Conference North , Solihull Borough played in the eighth division One Midlands of the Southern League . In January 2007, the two clubs therefore applied to the Football Association to merge. The Green Moor launch site was to continue to be used, while Solihull's Damson Park was to remain the venue. The Green Moor playground was to be sold to repay existing debts. At the end of March 2007, the association announced the merger of the two clubs to form Solihull Moors, which took effect on June 1, 2007.
The club started its first season with most of the Moor Green squad, including coach Bob Faulkner , who had coached Moor Green since 1985 and did so until 2011 when he succumbed to cancer. After the club mostly placed in the middle of the table in the first years of its existence, in the 2015/16 season under coach Marcus Bignot as relay champion, the promotion to the National League , the top division of English non-league football, succeeded . They also won the Birmingham Senior Cup for the first time that year with a 2-1 final win against the Birmingham City reserves .
In the following season they reached the first main round in the FA Cup 2016/17 , in which they defeated the fourth division Yeovil Town in the replay after penalties and then in the second round with Luton Town another fourth division club was defeated 2: 6. A year later they reached the first main round in the FA Cup 2017/18 (0-2 against Wycombe Wanderers ), while in the league they ended up in the lower half of the table in both seasons, but as 16th and 18th respectively in the final table successfully held the class.
successes
- National League North Champion : 2015/16
- Birmingham Senior Cup Winner : 2015/16
League affiliation
- 2007-2016: Conference North / National League North
- since 2016: National League
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ sundaymercury.net: Moors, Boro 'bid for merger (Jan. 21, 2007) , accessed September 30, 2018
- ↑ icnetwork.co.uk: The birth of Solihull Moors FC (March 30, 2007) , accessed September 30, 2018
- ↑ solihullnews.net: Legendary Solihull Moors manager Bob Faulkner loses battle with prostate cancer (Feb. 9, 2011) , accessed September 30, 2018
- ^ Steve Carr, The History of the Birmingham Senior Cup, Part Two - 1905 to 2016 . CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2017, ISBN 978-1-5399-6768-2 .