2015–16 Midland Football League

The 2015–16 Midland Football League season was the 2nd in the history of the Midland Football League, a football competition in England.

Premier Division

Football league season

Midland Football League
Premier Division
Season	2015–16
Champions	Hereford
Promoted	Hereford
Relegated	Dunkirk
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1,677 (3.63 per match)
← 2014–15 2016–17 →

The Premier Division featured 17 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with five new clubs:

Bardon Hill, promoted from the East Midlands Counties League
Heanor Town, transferred from the Northern Counties East League
Hereford, new club
Highgate United, promoted from Division One
Sporting Khalsa, promoted from the West Midlands (Regional) League

Four clubs have applied for promotion to Step 4: Alvechurch, Heanor Town, Hereford and Sporting Khalsa.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Hereford	42	35	3	4	138	33	+105	108	Promoted to the Southern Football League
2	Alvechurch	42	32	5	5	99	30	+69	101
3	Sporting Khalsa	42	25	8	9	90	49	+41	83
4	Shepshed Dynamo	42	24	5	13	86	58	+28	77
5	Coleshill Town	42	23	5	14	108	73	+35	74
6	Heanor Town	42	22	7	13	99	77	+22	73
7	Walsall Wood	42	21	7	14	76	66	+10	70
8	Lye Town	42	22	3	17	86	58	+28	69
9	Highgate United	42	19	10	13	75	60	+15	64
10	Stourport Swifts	42	17	8	17	57	57	0	59
11	Boldmere St. Michaels	42	18	5	19	70	81	−11	59
12	Rocester	42	17	7	18	67	82	−15	58
13	AFC Wulfrunians	42	16	9	17	70	74	−4	57
14	Loughborough University	42	16	6	20	79	83	−4	54
15	Brocton	42	15	8	19	75	88	−13	53
16	Westfields	42	13	12	17	69	68	+1	51
17	Quorn	42	12	9	21	71	78	−7	45
18	Long Eaton United	42	12	9	21	63	85	−22	45
19	Coventry Sphinx	42	12	3	27	68	98	−30	39
20	Dunkirk	42	8	6	28	49	121	−72	30	Relegated to the East Midlands Counties League
21	Bardon Hill	42	7	9	26	56	120	−64	27	Resigned to the Leicestershire Senior League
22	Continental Star	42	2	4	36	26	138	−112	10	Demoted to Division Two

Source: Full-time FA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Notes:

Highgate United were deducted 3 points for failing to fulfil their fixture against Stourport Swifts on 7 April.
Bardon Hill were deducted 3 points for failing to fulfil their fixture against Alvechurch on 23 April.

Results

Home \ Away	AWU	ALV	BAH	BOS	BRO	COL	COS	COV	DUN	HEA	HER	HIG	LOE	LOU	LYE	QON	ROC	SPD	SPK	SPS	WAW	WES
AFC Wulfrunians		0–4	2–2	3–2	2–1	1–4	2–1	3–1	3–0	1–1	1–2	0–3	4–1	3–1	0–1	4–4	1–1	1–0	2–2	1–2	2–3	3–2
Alvechurch	0–3		2–1	2–2	2–0	3–0	8–0	3–1	4–0	1–0	1–2	3–1	3–1	4–1	2–1	1–1	4–1	4–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	3–0
Bardon Hill	3–3	0–3		0–2	1–3	2–2	3–1	1–5	2–2	3–5	0–2	1–4	1–1	0–7	1–0	2–1	0–1	0–3	0–2	0–3	2–4	0–4
Boldmere St. Michaels	1–0	1–0	3–2		2–3	1–6	5–0	2–1	3–2	1–2	0–3	0–2	2–1	0–2	2–1	2–1	1–3	1–2	0–0	3–0	2–2	2–1
Brocton	1–4	0–2	1–2	3–1		0–3	2–1	4–2	2–4	5–5	0–4	3–1	1–2	3–4	0–5	2–2	3–0	1–2	1–4	3–2	1–1	1–1
Coleshill Town	2–1	2–0	3–2	1–1	0–2		0–1	6–3	10–1	1–4	1–4	0–3	6–0	5–1	0–3	3–1	4–1	1–3	1–1	4–2	1–0	1–1
Continental Star	1–4	1–2	1–0	1–5	0–2	1–4		1–1	1–4	0–3	1–5	0–1	0–2	0–0	0–4	0–0	0–2	1–3	2–4	1–2	1–2	0–7
Coventry Sphinx	2–3	0–3	2–3	3–0	0–3	2–3	5–2		2–1	2–4	0–4	0–2	5–0	1–2	0–2	2–0	6–0	0–6	0–3	1–0	3–2	3–0
Dunkirk	0–1	1–4	3–3	0–1	2–1	0–7	3–0	1–0		0–10	2–3	1–6	1–1	0–2	1–3	0–4	3–3	0–4	3–1	0–0	2–3	0–1
Heanor Town	0–0	0–4	1–0	7–2	2–2	1–0	7–0	4–1	3–0		2–7	3–1	2–0	3–1	0–3	0–4	2–0	2–3	1–2	2–0	2–2	1–3
Hereford	1–1	1–1	7–0	2–1	4–1	4–5	6–0	6–1	4–1	8–0		0–2	1–0	1–0	4–1	2–0	4–0	2–1	4–0	6–0	2–1	3–0
Highgate United	1–0	0–2	3–3	0–1	2–3	1–2	2–0	2–2	2–1	1–2	2–1		4–3	1–0	3–2	4–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–2
Long Eaton United	5–1	0–2	1–4	3–3	2–4	4–3	6–1	2–0	2–0	1–2	0–4	1–1		2–1	0–0	2–2	1–3	0–4	0–2	3–0	1–2	1–1
Loughborough University	5–1	2–1	7–2	4–1	1–2	3–1	6–1	3–2	4–3	2–2	0–5	3–3	0–4		4–1	1–3	1–2	3–2	1–1	1–1	1–2	0–2
Lye Town	1–0	1–2	5–1	1–2	3–0	3–1	5–1	2–0	2–2	2–1	1–2	7–3	1–1	6–1		1–0	0–1	1–2	1–0	0–4	2–3	1–2
Quorn	1–0	0–0	6–1	1–3	5–2	0–3	2–2	3–4	4–0	1–2	0–2	0–3	3–1	3–2	1–2		2–4	1–4	2–3	1–1	1–2	2–1
Rocester	0–1	0–3	0–2	1–3	2–2	1–3	2–1	1–0	4–1	2–1	3–4	1–1	1–2	2–0	1–2	3–2		1–0	4–2	0–2	5–0	4–4
Shepshed Dynamo	4–2	0–3	3–2	3–2	1–4	2–2	3–1	0–0	0–1	3–2	1–3	0–0	2–0	1–0	4–1	2–0	2–1		1–3	2–0	0–3	2–2
Sporting Khalsa	2–3	2–3	6–1	2–1	2–2	5–2	3–0	4–1	4–0	1–3	0–3	5–2	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	4–0	2–1		2–0	3–0	2–0
Stourport Swifts	3–1	2–2	4–1	3–0	1–0	0–1	3–0	1–2	1–0	1–2	2–0	1–0	3–1	0–2	2–3	0–3	2–2	1–2	0–0		1–1	4–2
Walsall Wood	1–0	0–1	1–1	3–2	2–1	3–2	5–0	2–1	5–1	3–0	0–6	0–1	2–3	0–0	2–1	3–1	1–1	3–2	0–3	0–1		4–0
Westfields	2–2	0–3	1–1	4–1	0–0	1–2	3–0	4–1	1–2	3–3	0–0	1–1	1–1	4–0	1–4	1–2	4–1	0–4	0–1	0–1	2–1

Source: MFL Premier Division results
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Locations

AFC Wulfrunians

Alvechurch

Bardon Hill

Boldmere St. Michaels

Loughborough University

Westfields class=notpageimage| Locations of the Premier Division clubs

Division One

Football league season

Midland Football League
Division One
Season	2015–16
Champions	Coventry United
Promoted	Coventry United
Matches played	380
Goals scored	1,444 (3.8 per match)
← 2014–15 2016–17 →

Division One featured 17 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with three new clubs:

Coventry United, promoted from Division Two
Heath Hayes, relegated from the Premier Division
Leicester Road, promoted from Division Two

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Coventry United	38	33	1	4	123	33	+90	100	Promoted to the Premier Division
2	Bromsgrove Sporting	38	29	4	5	102	41	+61	91
3	Nuneaton Griff	38	27	5	6	119	41	+78	86
4	Leicester Road	38	23	8	7	98	41	+57	77
5	Hinckley	38	23	6	9	116	53	+63	75
6	Pilkington XXX	38	20	7	11	73	57	+16	67	Club folded
7	Lichfield City	38	19	7	12	87	60	+27	64
8	Heath Hayes	38	20	4	14	57	43	+14	64
9	Littleton	38	19	4	15	61	58	+3	61
10	Racing Club Warwick	38	16	7	15	71	76	−5	55
11	Coventry Copsewood	38	15	9	14	75	78	−3	54
12	Studley	38	13	7	18	67	89	−22	46
13	Atherstone Town	38	11	8	19	55	71	−16	41
14	Pershore Town	38	11	5	22	51	69	−18	38
15	Cadbury Athletic	38	10	4	24	48	69	−21	34
16	Heather St. John's	38	10	3	25	56	115	−59	33
17	Bolehall Swifts	38	9	3	26	65	103	−38	30
18	Stafford Town	38	8	3	27	46	96	−50	27
19	Pelsall Villa	38	7	6	25	46	122	−76	27
20	Southam United	38	4	5	29	28	129	−101	17

Source: Full-time FA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results

Home \ Away	ATH	BOS	BRS	CAD	COV	CVU	HEA	HEJ	HIN	LRD	LIC	LIT	NUN	PEL	PER	PIL	RCW	SOU	STA	STU
Atherstone Town		0–3	1–2	1–0	2–2	2–4	1–1	2–1	0–2	3–2	1–2	0–1	0–3	3–0	3–0	0–0	2–2	2–1	4–1	1–3
Bolehall Swifts	2–2		2–6	0–5	2–3	1–5	1–3	3–1	0–5	1–4	4–0	0–2	3–7	4–2	0–4	1–8	3–3	11–0	1–0	0–3
Bromsgrove Sporting	3–1	4–1		4–0	5–2	4–2	2–0	7–2	2–1	3–0	2–0	3–1	0–1	3–1	3–0	3–0	1–0	1–1	3–0	3–1
Cadbury Athletic	2–1	2–2	2–0		1–1	2–1	0–3	0–2	0–1	1–2	1–3	0–2	2–3	1–3	1–1	1–3	4–2	4–0	2–3	0–2
Coventry Copsewood	0–2	0–3	1–4	2–1		0–5	2–1	4–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–2	2–2	4–2	0–2	0–1	2–2	7–1	3–2	4–2
Coventry United	6–1	2–0	3–2	2–1	10–0		2–0	6–2	2–2	0–3	2–1	3–0	3–2	11–0	1–0	3–0	3–1	3–1	2–1	1–0
Heath Hayes	2–1	3–1	1–2	0–1	2–0	2–1		1–2	2–1	0–0	0–2	0–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	3–0	1–0	2–0
Heather St. John's	3–1	3–1	0–4	1–0	1–5	1–4	0–4		2–3	0–2	3–4	2–2	0–3	3–2	1–0	0–5	2–5	5–0	1–0	0–2
Hinckley	2–2	3–2	1–3	2–0	1–4	0–4	3–4	4–1		3–2	2–0	1–1	1–1	3–3	3–1	4–1	0–1	4–0	9–0	8–2
Leicester Road	3–0	3–0	5–1	3–0	1–1	1–2	1–0	5–1	1–2		2–0	4–2	4–0	2–2	5–0	2–2	7–3	5–0	1–1	5–0
Lichfield City	2–2	4–1	0–2	3–0	4–1	1–2	2–4	5–1	0–4	3–2		2–2	0–3	1–1	1–1	5–1	3–2	3–1	3–1	5–1
Littleton	2–1	0–3	0–3	3–2	3–0	0–2	4–2	2–1	1–5	0–1	3–4		1–4	3–0	4–1	0–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	1–4
Nuneaton Griff	1–1	1–0	4–0	2–0	4–0	0–1	2–0	10–0	3–0	2–2	2–1	4–3		3–1	4–1	4–1	4–3	7–0	2–0	3–0
Pelsall Villa	2–1	2–1	2–2	2–6	2–1	0–3	3–4	4–2	0–2	1–2	0–8	0–0	0–7		1–7	2–4	0–5	1–3	1–0	1–5
Pershore Town	0–2	4–1	0–1	2–2	0–1	1–5	0–1	3–1	1–4	1–3	0–1	0–1	3–2	3–0		1–2	1–4	2–0	2–1	2–0
Pilkington XXX	2–3	1–0	0–5	2–0	1–3	0–2	0–1	2–2	3–2	1–1	2–2	1–0	2–1	5–1	3–1		0–1	5–0	3–1	3–2
Racing Club Warwick	2–3	3–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–3	1–1	3–2	1–3	2–1	2–1	2–0	1–9	4–2	3–2	0–0		0–1	3–1	0–1
Southam United	2–0	0–4	1–3	1–3	1–5	0–4	1–4	3–2	0–13	0–6	0–2	0–3	0–1	0–1	1–1	2–3	0–1		2–2	4–4
Stafford Town	2–1	2–0	0–2	3–0	0–5	0–5	0–1	3–4	2–3	2–3	0–7	1–4	0–4	3–1	0–1	1–1	6–4	1–0		1–3
Studley	3–2	3–1	3–3	0–1	3–7	0–3	3–1	1–1	0–8	0–1	2–2	0–2	3–3	3–0	2–2	0–3	3–0	1–1	2–4

Updated to match(es) played on 13 December 2016. Source: MFL Division One results
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Locations

Heather St John's & Hinckley

Studley class=notpageimage| Locations of the Division One clubs

Division Two

Football league season

Midland Football League
Division Two
Season	2015–16
Champions	Alvis Sporting Club
Promoted	Chelmsley Town
← 2014–15 2016–17 →

Division Two featured 11 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with 3 new clubs:

Alvis Sporting Club, relegated from Division One
Austrey Rangers, promoted from Division Three
Rostance Edwards, promoted from Division Three

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Alvis Sporting Club	26	23	3	0	93	21	+72	72
2	Chelmsley Town	26	20	3	3	71	27	+44	63	Promoted to Division One
3	Droitwich Spa	26	16	5	5	65	23	+42	53
4	Paget Rangers	26	16	4	6	64	33	+31	52
5	Rostance Edwards	26	15	2	9	44	34	+10	47
6	Sutton United	26	11	1	14	50	54	−4	34
7	Coton Green	26	7	7	12	33	54	−21	28
8	Hampton	26	8	4	14	37	63	−26	28
9	Knowle	26	6	9	11	36	49	−13	27
10	Barnt Green Spartak	26	7	4	15	35	49	−14	25
11	Austrey Rangers	26	5	9	12	36	53	−17	24	Resigned from the league
12	Feckenham	26	6	6	14	47	74	−27	24
13	Fairfield Villa	26	6	5	15	40	64	−24	23
14	Earlswood Town	26	3	4	19	19	72	−53	13

Source: fchd
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Division Three

Football league season

Midland Football Combination
Division Three
Season	2015–16
Champions	Leamington Hibs
Promoted	Leamington Hibs Redditch Borough Smithswood Firs
← 2014–15 2016–17 →

Division Three featured 13 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with 3 new clubs:

AFC Solihull, from Stratford Alliance
Coventrians
Shipston Excelsior, from Stratford Alliance

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Leamington Hibs	28	21	3	4	88	38	+50	66	Promoted to Division Two
2	Redditch Borough	28	20	2	6	90	34	+56	62
3	Smithswood Firs	28	21	2	5	95	44	+51	53
4	FC Stratford	28	15	4	9	73	44	+29	49
5	Alcester Town	28	16	0	12	74	53	+21	48
6	Barton United	28	14	6	8	56	43	+13	48
7	Shipston Excelsior	28	15	1	12	59	57	+2	46
8	Northfield Town	28	14	4	10	62	61	+1	46
9	Inkberrow	27	12	4	11	57	61	−4	40
10	Coventrians	27	9	3	15	42	53	−11	30
11	Burntwood Town	28	7	6	15	40	66	−26	27	Resigned from the league
12	Boldmere Sports & Social	28	8	2	18	42	60	−18	26
13	Enville Athletic	27	7	3	17	40	69	−29	24
14	Perrywood	27	3	6	18	37	99	−62	15	Resigned from the league
15	AFC Solihull	28	2	2	24	32	105	−73	5
16	Badsey Rangers	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Club folded, record expunged

Source: fchd
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Notes:

Smithswood Firs 12 points deducted.
AFC Solihull 3 points deducted.

References

"Promotion applications for clubs aiming for Step 4". The FA. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
^ "News/Press". Midland Football League. Archived from the original on 8 June 2016.

External links

Midland Football League

Midland Football League

2023–24
clubs

Premier Division	AFC Wulfrunians Atherstone Town Bewdley Town Congleton Town Darlaston Town (1874) Dudley Town Highgate United Lichfield City Northwich Victoria Romulus Shifnal Town Stone Old Alleynians Stourport Swifts Studley Tividale Uttoxeter Town Whitchurch Alport Wolverhampton Casuals
Division One	AFC Bridgnorth Allscott Heath Bilston Town Chelmsley Town Coton Green Coventry Copsewood Cradley Town Droitwich Spa Heather St John's Hinckley Ingles Nuneaton Griff OJM Paget Rangers Shawbury United Smethwick Khalsa Football Federation Stapenhill Sutton United Wednesfield Wolverhampton Sporting
Division Two	AFC Coventry Rangers Alcester Town Birmingham United Bolehall Swifts Cadbury Athletic Coventry Alvis Central Ajax Coventrians Earlswood Town Fairfield Villa Hampton Inkberrow Knowle Lane Head Littleton Redditch Borough
Division Three	AFC Birmingham AFC Solihull Balsall & Berkswell Birmingham Tigers BNJS Boldmere Sports & Social Falcons Castle Vale Town Continental Star DSC Athletic Feckenham Gornal Youth Leamington Hibernian Meadow Park Northfield Town Silhill Solihull Sporting Wake Green Amateur

Seasons

Predecessor leagues: Midland Alliance; Midland Combination

2015–16 in English football

« 2014–15 2016–17 »

National teams

Senior (UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying round, finals)
U21 (UEFA Euro 2017 qualifying round)
U19 (UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying round, finals)
U17 (UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying round, finals)

League
competitions

Level 1	Premier League
Levels 2–4	Football League (Championship, League One, League Two, play-offs)
Levels 5–6	National League (National, North, South)
Levels 7–8	Isthmian League (Premier, North, South) Northern Premier League (Premier, North, South) Southern League (Premier, Central, South & West)
Levels 9–10	Combined Counties League (Premier, One) East Midlands Counties League (level 10 only) Eastern Counties League (Premier, One) Essex Senior League (level 9 only) Hellenic League (Premier, One East, One West) Kent Invicta League (level 10 only) Midland League (Premier, One) North West Counties League (Premier, One) Northern Counties East League (Premier, One) Northern League (One, Two) South West Peninsula League Premier Division (level 10 only) Southern Combination League (One, Two) Southern Counties East League (level 9 only) Spartan South Midlands League (Premier, One) United Counties League (Premier, One) Wessex League (Premier, One) West Midlands (Regional) League (level 10 only) Western League (Premier, One)

Cup
competitions

FA cups	FA Cup (Qualifying rounds, Final) FA Community Shield FA Trophy (Final) FA Vase (Final)
Football League cups	Football League Cup (Final) Football League Trophy (Final)

Youth
competitions

Under 21	Professional U21 Development Leagues (League 1, League 2) U21 Premier League Cup
Under 18	Professional U18 Development Leagues (League 1, League 2, League 3) FA Youth Cup

Club seasons
Premier League	Arsenal Aston Villa Bournemouth Chelsea Crystal Palace Everton Leicester City Liverpool Manchester City Manchester United Newcastle United Norwich City Southampton Stoke City Sunderland Swansea City Tottenham Hotspur Watford West Bromwich Albion West Ham United
Championship	Birmingham City Blackburn Rovers Bolton Wanderers Brentford Brighton & Hove Albion Bristol City Burnley Cardiff City Charlton Athletic Derby County Fulham Huddersfield Town Hull City Ipswich Town Leeds United Middlesbrough Milton Keynes Dons Nottingham Forest Preston North End Queens Park Rangers Reading Rotherham United Sheffield Wednesday Wolverhampton Wanderers
League One	Barnsley Blackpool Bradford City Burton Albion Bury Chesterfield Colchester United Coventry City Crewe Alexandra Doncaster Rovers Fleetwood Town Gillingham Millwall Oldham Athletic Peterborough United Port Vale Rochdale Scunthorpe United Sheffield United Shrewsbury Town Southend United Swindon Town Walsall Wigan Athletic
League Two	Accrington Stanley AFC Wimbledon Barnet Bristol Rovers Cambridge United Carlisle United Crawley Town Dagenham & Redbridge Exeter City Hartlepool United Leyton Orient Luton Town Mansfield Town Morecambe Newport County Northampton Town Notts County Oxford United Plymouth Argyle Portsmouth Stevenage Wycombe Wanderers Yeovil Town York City

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