Wolverhampton Sporting C.F.C.

Wolverhampton Sporting
Full name	Wolverhampton Sporting Community Football Club
Nickname(s)	Wolves Sporting
Founded	2001
Ground	Pride Park
Chairman	John Quarry
Manager	Francino Francis
League	North West Counties League Division One South
2023–24	Midland League Division One, 16th of 20 (transferred)
Website	http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/wolvessportingcfc pattern_la1=_blackborder
Home colours	Away colours

Wolverhampton Sporting Community Football Club is a football club originally formed in Wolverhampton, but currently based in Great Wyrley, the club competes in the North West Counties League Division One South. Originally formed as Chubb Sports F.C. they lost their home club and pitches due to the Chubb lock and safe factory closing down and being sold for housing. The club then changed its name to Heath Town Rangers, the name and badge was chosen by the players in 2001.

The club changed its name from Heath Town Rangers to its present name midway through the 2010–11 season.

History

The club entered the West Midlands (Regional) League in 2005–06 competing in the youth league. The next season they entered their first team into Division Two and in the 2006–07 season, the club won the Division Two title and also claimed the Youth League title. In 2007–08 season they entered a reserve team into Division Two and the Heath Town Rangers first team gained promotion from Division One into the Premier Division by finishing in third place. They also won the Staffordshire Challenge Cup in the same season. In their first season in the Premier Division, they finished eighth and reached the final of the League Cup which was postponed and never played. Part way through the 2010–11 season the club changed its name from Heath Town Rangers to Wolverhampton Sporting Community Football Club. Sporting won the 2017–18 West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division double, finishing the league with a total of 104 points and beating Black Country Rangers 3–0 in the Premier Cup Final. They gained promotion into the Midland Football League following their league victory.

For the 2018–19 season, Sporting hired Steve Hinks as manager, however, he left the club bottom of the Midland Football League to take over at Nuneaton Borough, for Hinks's replacement, the club hired former Black Country Rangers boss, Wayne Spicer, in December 2018. Spicer's first game in charge was a 1–1 draw away against Worcester City. At the end of the 2020–21 season the club was transferred to Division One of the Midland League when the Premier Division of the West Midlands (Regional) League lost its status as a step-six division.

Ground

Following a period of ground-sharing at the Cottage Ground, the current home of Wednesfield F.C., Sporting moved to Pride Park, Great Wyrley, in 2014. The ground itself has two stands which are both at the clubhouse end of the pitch at either corner flag, the stand on the left has rows of benches that have been painted in the colours of the club, while the stand on the right has proper seats in it, standing is available round all other sides of the pitch. The ground also has floodlights and a viewing balcony. Catering is covered on the second floor of the clubhouse with a full bar and catering facility.

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	GK	ENG	Connor Hopkins (on loan from Sutton Coldfield Town)
—	GK	ENG	Ryan Pratt
—	GK	ENG	Dale Faultless
—	DF	ENG	Jonathon Ashfall
—	DF	ENG	Kyle Burke
—	DF	ENG	Stefan Cameron
—	DF	ENG	Aboudalahi Ceesay
—	DF	ENG	Ben Douglas
—	DF	ENG	Sufyan Zia
—	MF	ENG	Abdulhamid Chouchane
—	MF	ENG	Dominic Dell
—	MF	ENG	Mitchell Evans


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	ENG	Kartell O'Neil-Martin
—	MF	ENG	Dan Scragg
—	MF	ENG	Shaun Smith
—	MF	ENG	Bilal Yafai
—	MF	ENG	Umar Zaman
—	FW	ENG	Roland Agbor
—	FW	ENG	Taylor Allen
—	FW	ENG	Kieron Clarke
—	FW	ENG	Daniel Dubidat
—	FW	ENG	Jake Healy
—	FW	ENG	Taimoor Hussain
—	FW	ENG	Adam Skeldon

Coaching staff

Position	Name
Head Coach	Wayne Spicer
Assistant Head Coach	Graham Ward
First Team Coach	Thomas Albutt
Goalkeeping Coach	John Davies
Goalkeeping Coach	Huzefa Vorajee
Fitness Coach	Vacant
Physiotherapist	Pav Gill
Performance Analyst	Jan Reis
Technical Director	Obayed Hussain