2016–17 Midland Football League

The 2016–17 Midland Football League season was the third in the history of the Midland Football League, a football competition in England.

Premier Division

Football league season

Midland Football League
Premier Division
Season	2016–17
Champions	Alvechurch
Promoted	Alvechurch
Relegated	Brocton Tividale Walsall Wood
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1,621 (3.51 per match)
← 2015–16 2017–18 →

The Premier Division featured 18 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with four new clubs:

Coventry United, promoted from Division One
Shawbury United, promoted from the West Midlands (Regional) League
St Andrews, promoted from the East Midlands Counties League
Tividale, relegated from the Northern Premier League

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Alvechurch	42	28	8	6	91	33	+58	92	Promoted to the Northern Premier League Division One South
2	Coleshill Town	42	27	5	10	109	59	+50	86
3	Sporting Khalsa	42	24	10	8	92	50	+42	82
4	Lye Town	42	22	10	10	73	45	+28	76
5	Westfields	42	20	10	12	98	75	+23	70
6	Heanor Town	42	20	9	13	87	65	+22	69
7	Highgate United	42	18	9	15	84	71	+13	63
8	Coventry United	42	18	8	16	63	57	+6	62
9	St Andrews	42	18	8	16	86	88	−2	62	Transferred to the United Counties League
10	Coventry Sphinx	42	16	9	17	78	79	−1	57
11	Quorn	42	16	9	17	58	74	−16	57
12	Boldmere St Michaels	42	15	10	17	73	63	+10	55
13	Stourport Swifts	42	14	11	17	73	83	−10	53
14	Long Eaton United	42	15	8	19	74	87	−13	53
15	Shepshed Dynamo	42	14	10	18	65	68	−3	52
16	Rocester	42	13	13	16	71	86	−15	52
17	AFC Wulfrunians	42	14	8	20	55	72	−17	50
18	Loughborough University	42	11	15	16	67	66	+1	48
19	Shawbury United	42	14	5	23	69	91	−22	47
20	Walsall Wood	42	14	5	23	57	86	−29	47	Relegated to Division One
21	Brocton	42	10	4	28	50	112	−62	34	Relegated to Division One
22	Tividale	42	6	6	30	48	111	−63	24	Relegated to the West Midlands League

Source: FA Full-Time
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Number of matches won; 5) Head-to-head results

Promotion criteria

To be promoted at the end of the season a team must:

Have applied to be considered for promotion by the end of November
Pass a ground grading examination by the end of March
Finish the season in a position higher than that of any other team also achieving criteria 1 and 2
Finish the season in one of the top three positions

The following six teams achieved criterion one:

Results

Home \ Away	AWU	ALV	BOS	BRO	COL	COV	CVU	HEA	HIG	LOE	LOU	LYE	QON	ROC	SHA	SPD	SPK	STA	SPS	TIV	WAW	WES
AFC Wulfrunians		0–2	2–0	2–3	0–0	1–4	4–1	2–0	2–2	4–3	3–2	0–1	0–2	2–2	1–0	0–1	1–3	0–4	0–3	0–0	1–0	0–1
Alvechurch	3–1		2–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	3–0	1–2	3–2	0–1	5–0	3–0	3–0	2–2	2–2	5–1	1–1	4–0	4–1	2–0
Boldmere St. Michaels	1–0	3–0		5–1	4–2	1–1	4–3	0–2	0–4	1–0	2–2	2–3	1–2	1–2	3–0	0–0	2–0	8–0	1–3	3–0	1–2	1–5
Brocton	0–5	0–3	2–1		0–4	1–0	1–1	3–2	2–6	1–4	0–2	3–1	1–2	1–1	1–3	0–4	1–6	1–3	1–3	1–0	1–1	1–2
Coleshill Town	2–1	2–0	4–1	3–2		3–4	4–0	2–3	2–1	2–3	0–2	2–3	1–0	5–2	6–1	2–0	3–3	5–1	4–3	4–2	5–2	3–1
Coventry Sphinx	3–0	0–2	0–0	8–0	1–1		1–2	1–0	1–1	4–1	2–1	1–1	2–3	4–4	3–1	2–1	0–5	0–5	1–3	1–1	4–0	2–3
Coventry United	0–1	0–1	0–2	4–1	1–3	1–0		2–1	1–3	3–1	0–0	1–2	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–2	2–4	5–0	5–1	2–0	1–1
Heanor Town	1–2	2–2	1–1	3–2	2–3	1–2	2–1		2–0	0–0	2–1	4–0	2–3	2–1	3–2	1–1	2–1	4–0	2–1	4–1	3–1	4–2
Highgate United	2–0	0–3	0–6	1–2	0–1	4–1	0–1	1–3		1–2	0–0	0–3	2–1	3–0	4–2	5–1	2–2	3–5	4–0	2–1	3–2	4–0
Long Eaton United	2–3	2–5	3–1	3–2	2–2	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–1		2–2	2–1	3–1	0–1	2–3	1–2	4–6	2–0	5–1	2–0	0–2	3–3
Loughborough University	3–2	0–2	1–1	2–4	2–4	4–1	1–3	2–4	1–0	3–1		3–3	0–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–1	1–3	1–0	4–2	1–1	1–1
Lye Town	2–0	1–2	1–1	3–1	0–1	5–0	0–0	1–1	1–2	4–0	1–0		3–0	0–0	4–0	3–0	0–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	2–1
Quorn	2–0	0–5	0–4	0–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–2	3–2	0–2	1–1	1–1		0–3	1–0	0–0	0–2	2–1	4–3	1–2	1–1	2–1
Rocester	0–0	0–3	3–0	5–4	0–4	1–4	1–0	3–2	1–2	2–1	1–1	3–1	3–2		2–2	1–2	2–2	4–4	0–0	4–1	3–2	2–4
Shawbury United	2–1	1–1	4–0	2–0	2–1	4–3	1–1	0–3	2–4	5–1	0–5	0–3	1–2	4–3		2–1	0–1	2–6	3–0	2–0	1–2	5–1
Shepshed Dynamo	5–1	0–1	3–1	3–0	1–3	2–3	2–2	3–2	1–1	2–2	1–2	2–2	3–3	2–1	2–1		1–0	1–1	1–2	3–0	1–0	4–5
Sporting Khalsa	1–0	0–1	2–2	4–0	1–1	4–2	0–1	2–1	1–1	5–0	2–1	3–0	3–2	5–3	1–0	3–2		2–0	5–1	3–0	0–2	1–1
St Andrews	1–2	1–1	2–2	1–0	2–1	1–0	0–2	4–3	0–0	5–1	4–3	1–1	2–1	0–0	4–1	2–0	0–2		3–6	1–4	5–2	0–4
Stourport Swifts	2–2	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–2	2–3	1–2	1–1	1–6	2–2	2–1	3–1	1–1	3–2	3–1	3–0	1–1	2–2		4–0	1–2	0–5
Tividale	3–1	1–4	0–3	1–3	1–5	1–3	0–2	1–4	2–2	2–4	1–1	0–2	3–2	2–2	2–1	1–2	2–3	2–4	1–5		0–2	2–2
Walsall Wood	3–5	2–1	0–2	3–1	1–2	1–3	1–1	1–3	1–4	1–0	1–1	1–3	0–3	4–0	2–5	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–3		3–4
Westfields	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–2	0–4	2–2	6–1	5–1	7–1	1–0	0–3	2–2	3–2	1–2	2–2	3–2	2–0	3–2	3–3	3–1	4–0

Updated to match(es) played on 29 April 2017. Source: MFL Premier Division results
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Locations

AFC Wulfrunians

Alvechurch

Boldmere St. Michaels

Brocton

Coleshill Town

Coventry Sphinx & Coventry United

Heanor Town

Highgate United

Long Eaton United

Loughborough University

Westfields class=notpageimage| Locations of the Premier Division clubs

Division One

Football league season

Midland Football League
Division One
Season	2016–17
Champions	Bromsgrove Sporting
Promoted	Bromsgrove Sporting
Relegated	Pelsall Villa Southam United
Matches played	380
Goals scored	1,521 (4 per match)
← 2015–16 2017–18 →

Division One featured 18 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with two new clubs:

Chelmsley Town, promoted from Division Two
Uttoxeter Town, joined from the Staffordshire County Senior League

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Bromsgrove Sporting	38	33	5	0	132	23	+109	104	Promoted to the Premier Division
2	Hinckley	38	27	4	7	133	47	+86	85
3	Leicester Road	38	25	4	9	117	36	+81	79
4	Atherstone Town	38	24	5	9	99	58	+41	77
5	Cadbury Athletic	38	19	13	6	78	45	+33	70
6	Racing Club Warwick	38	19	9	10	92	72	+20	66
7	Lichfield City	38	17	7	14	66	61	+5	58
8	Heather St John's	38	17	4	17	67	69	−2	55
9	Littleton	38	16	4	18	64	64	0	52
10	Nuneaton Griff	38	15	6	17	71	76	−5	51
11	Uttoxeter Town	38	14	7	17	68	82	−14	49
12	Coventry Copsewood	38	14	5	19	74	90	−16	47
13	Bolehall Swifts	38	15	1	22	80	97	−17	46
14	Heath Hayes	38	12	8	18	67	69	−2	44
15	Studley	38	12	5	21	69	97	−28	41
16	Stafford Town	38	10	9	19	69	79	−10	39
17	Chelmsley Town	38	10	8	20	62	81	−19	38
18	Pershore Town	38	10	8	20	48	81	−33	38
19	Pelsall Villa	38	9	7	22	53	99	−46	34	Relegated to Division Two
20	Southam United	38	0	5	33	12	195	−183	5	Resigned from the league

Source: FA Full-Time
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Number of matches won; 5) Head-to-head results

Results

Home \ Away	ATH	BOS	BRS	CAD	CHL	COV	HEA	HEJ	HIN	LRD	LIC	LIT	NUN	PEL	PER	RCW	SOU	STA	STU	UTT
Atherstone Town		1–0	0–4	1–3	4–1	5–0	2–1	0–1	3–0	1–1	1–1	0–5	5–0	4–1	1–0	3–1	3–2	4–1	1–2	0–3
Bolehall Swifts	1–2		0–8	4–3	4–2	1–2	4–0	5–2	3–7	0–8	1–2	1–2	2–4	0–4	3–1	1–2	7–0	4–2	1–2	6–2
Bromsgrove Sporting	2–2	3–0		3–2	3–2	5–2	2–1	5–0	3–0	1–0	5–0	2–0	4–2	10–0	5–0	1–1	3–0	1–1	2–0	2–1
Cadbury Athletic	1–1	3–0	1–1		2–2	2–0	2–0	2–2	0–3	0–2	2–1	3–2	1–1	1–1	3–0	2–0	6–0	3–0	2–2	4–0
Chelmsley Town	0–5	2–3	1–4	0–2		4–2	1–6	1–2	3–6	0–2	3–3	1–0	1–2	1–0	4–1	3–1	8–0	0–0	6–1	0–1
Coventry Copsewood	2–1	1–3	1–3	1–4	3–1		2–3	1–3	2–2	0–3	3–0	2–1	1–2	3–3	1–0	1–3	8–0	3–2	0–4	1–5
Heath Hayes	3–4	1–2	0–4	0–2	0–2	2–1		2–1	0–2	0–2	0–3	1–1	2–3	5–0	0–0	3–4	4–0	0–2	3–0	3–3
Heather St. John's	0–2	1–0	0–3	1–1	4–0	4–1	0–1		1–3	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	2–4	10–0	1–2	4–3	4–3
Hinckley	2–3	4–1	1–2	5–3	1–2	2–0	1–2	2–0		2–0	2–0	2–2	4–0	6–0	4–1	4–1	12–0	2–1	5–1	6–2
Leicester Road	2–2	4–0	0–1	0–1	4–1	4–2	1–1	5–1	2–1		4–1	7–2	3–1	5–1	1–2	1–1	11–0	3–1	3–1	5–0
Lichfield City	5–0	3–1	0–1	0–2	0–1	2–4	2–1	3–0	0–4	1–0		3–0	3–1	1–3	3–0	2–2	5–0	1–1	0–3	1–1
Littleton	1–2	3–2	0–4	0–2	2–2	1–3	0–1	4–2	2–1	1–3	2–1		1–3	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	3–1	1–2
Nuneaton Griff	3–5	0–3	0–5	3–0	2–1	2–4	0–0	0–2	1–1	1–3	0–1	0–0		2–1	3–4	3–7	7–0	1–0	6–0	2–0
Pelsall Villa	1–6	4–1	1–5	1–2	0–0	2–3	2–3	2–1	1–6	2–1	0–0	1–5	4–0		1–4	2–2	4–0	3–1	2–4	0–0
Pershore Town	2–0	0–6	0–3	0–3	2–2	0–3	2–2	2–2	1–2	3–2	1–4	0–6	0–3	0–1		0–2	2–0	1–1	4–0	0–0
Racing Club Warwick	2–5	1–1	0–3	2–2	3–1	2–2	1–3	2–0	1–7	1–0	3–5	3–1	1–1	2–0	3–3		15–0	3–1	2–0	3–1
Southam United	0–8	0–3	0–6	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–6	1–2	0–10	0–7	2–2	0–4	0–4	2–2	0–4	1–2		0–3	1–6	1–2
Stafford Town	2–4	6–1	0–4	3–3	1–1	2–0	4–4	4–2	1–2	2–6	4–1	0–1	2–2	1–0	2–4	3–4	7–0		2–5	0–2
Studley	1–5	1–4	2–7	1–1	0–1	2–4	2–2	2–3	1–1	0–6	1–2	4–3	3–2	4–0	1–2	1–2	4–0	1–1		1–3
Uttoxeter Town	1–3	4–1	2–2	2–2	2–0	4–4	3–1	1–2	1–6	1–5	1–2	2–1	1–4	3–2	2–1	1–2	4–0	1–3	1–2

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

Locations

Heather St John's & Hinckley

Uttoxeter Town class=notpageimage| Locations of the Division One clubs

Division Two

Football league season

Midland Football League
Division Two
Season	2016–17
Champions	Paget Rangers
Promoted	Paget Rangers Alvis Sporting Club
Relegated	Leamington Hibernian Continental Star
← 2015–16 2017–18 →

Division Two featured 12 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with 4 new clubs:

Continental Star, demoted from Premier Division
Leamington Hibernian, promoted from Division Three
Redditch Borough, promoted from Division Three
Smithswood Firs, promoted from Division Three

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Paget Rangers	30	20	4	6	93	40	+53	64	Promoted to Division One
2	Alvis Sporting Club	30	19	6	5	59	29	+30	63	Promoted to Division One
3	Droitwich Spa	30	20	5	5	80	31	+49	62
4	Redditch Borough	30	20	4	6	87	30	+57	61
5	Fairfield Villa	30	17	4	9	75	51	+24	55
6	Knowle	30	13	8	9	60	41	+19	47
7	Coton Green	30	13	8	9	56	44	+12	47
8	Sutton United	30	12	5	13	62	72	−10	40	Resigned from the league
9	Earlswood Town	30	11	5	14	49	53	−4	38
10	Feckenham	30	9	8	13	45	64	−19	35
11	Smithswood Firs	30	8	9	13	63	70	−7	33
12	Barnt Green Spartak	30	9	3	18	45	80	−35	30
13	Bloxwich Town	30	8	6	16	32	67	−35	30
14	Hampton	30	6	5	19	33	77	−44	23
15	Leamington Hibernian	30	6	4	20	38	79	−41	22	Relegated to Division Three
16	Continental Star	30	3	8	19	32	81	−49	17	Relegated to Division Three

Source: FA Full-Time
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
Notes:

Droitwich Spa were deducted three points for fielding an ineligible player
Redditch Borough were deducted three points for fielding an ineligible player against Paget Rangers on 13 August 2016.
Sutton United were deducted one point for fielding an ineligible player against Coton Green on 29 August 2016.

Division Three

Football league season

Midland Football Combination
Division Three
Season	2016–17
Champions	NKF Burbage
Promoted	NKF Burbage Montpellier Northfield Town Moors Academy
← 2015–16 2017–18 →

Division Three featured 10 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with 4 new clubs:

Castle Vale Town
Montpellier
Moors Academy
NKF Burbage, from Leicestershire Senior League

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	NKF Burbage	26	22	4	0	76	14	+62	70	Promoted to Division Two
2	Montpellier	26	19	4	3	88	34	+54	61
3	Northfield Town	26	17	3	6	69	36	+33	54
4	Moors Academy	25	17	3	5	68	38	+30	54
5	Shipston Excelsior	26	12	5	9	52	53	−1	41
6	FC Stratford	26	11	3	12	64	47	+17	36
7	Alcester Town	26	10	5	11	34	32	+2	35
8	Inkberrow	26	9	5	12	45	57	−12	32
9	Coventrians	26	9	3	14	50	72	−22	30
10	Barton United	25	7	7	11	43	41	+2	28	Resigned from the league
11	Enville Athletic	26	8	2	16	23	50	−27	26
12	AFC Solihull	26	5	3	18	30	73	−43	18
13	Boldmere Sports & Social Falcons	26	4	5	17	23	63	−40	17
14	Castle Vale Town	26	3	4	19	34	89	−55	13

Source: FA Full-Time
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored

References

^ "The FA Handbook 2016-17 (page 545, section 13.2)". The FA. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
"Promotion criteria for Step 5 to Step 4 for 2016–17 season". FA. 26 Oct 2015.
"Step 4 Applications". FA. 12 Dec 2016. Retrieved 15 Dec 2016.
"Droitwich Spa footballers denied promotion and league title after three-point deduction by Midland League". Droitwich Spar Advertiser. 6 June 2017. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
"League Statement: Points Deduction". Midland Football League. 9 November 2016.
"League Statement: Points Deduction". Midland Football League. 28 September 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

2016–17 in English football

« 2015–16 2017–18 »

National teams

Senior (2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying round)
U21 (UEFA Euro 2017 qualifying round, finals)
U19 (UEFA Euro 2017 qualifying round, finals)
U17 (UEFA Euro 2017 qualifying round, finals)

League
competitions

Level 1	Premier League
Levels 2–4	English 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) Midland League (Premier, One) Northern Counties East League (Premier, One) Northern League (One, Two) North West Counties League (Premier, One) Southern Combination League (Premier, One) Southern Counties East League (Premier, One) South West Peninsula League Premier Division (level 10 only) Spartan South Midlands League (Premier, One) United Counties League (Premier, One) Wessex League (Premier, One) Western League (Premier, One) West Midlands (Regional) League (level 10 only)

Cup
competitions

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

Youth
competitions

Under 23	Professional U23 Development League Premier League Cup
Under 18	Professional U18 Development League FA Youth Cup

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

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