Brierley Hill Alliance F.C.

Brierley Hill Alliance F.C.

Brierley Hill Alliance F.C. was an English football (soccer) club based in Brierley Hill in the West Midlands.

The club joined the Birmingham & District League in 1890 and the team were league champions on two occasions and runners-up on four occasions.fchd|name=Brierley Hill Alliance|id=BRIERLHA] The club was also notable for being involved in the first ever FA Cup match to be played under floodlights, when they took on Kidderminster Harriers in 1955. [cite book | first=Bill|last=Bateson |coauthors=Albert Sewell | title=News of the World Football Annual 1992/93| publisher=Harper Collins | year=1992| id=ISBN 0-85543-188-1|pages=223] [ [http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/TheFACup/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/2003/05/48711.htm The FA] ]

Alliance also won the Birmingham Senior Cup in 1932–33, [ [http://new.blackcountrybugle.co.uk/blackcountrybugle-sport/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=107141 Black Country Bugle] ] 1936–37, 1951–52 and 1952–53. [ [http://www.birminghamfa.com/NR/rdonlyres/7460BC3E-66EE-4EC4-9376-4AE4C9E69692/0/SeniorCupPrevWinners.pdf Birmingham FA] (PDF document)]

The last known season in which the club played was 1980–81, after which it seems to have folded.

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