Staffordshire Senior Cup

Staffordshire Senior Cup

Flag of Staffordshire
Founded 1877
Region Staffordshire
Current champions Rushall Olympic (3rd title)
Most successful club(s) Stoke (18 titles)
Website http://www.staffordshirefa.com
The West Bromwich Albion team display the Staffordshire Cup in 1883.

The Staffordshire Senior Challenge Cup is a football cup tournament based in the county of Staffordshire in England first competed for in 1877-78. Organised by the Staffordshire Football Association, it is competed for by a mix of clubs from Staffordshire and the surrounding areas. Both professional and amateur clubs may enter. In the modern age however professional teams such as Stoke City and Port Vale, the main clubs in Staffordshire, usually field a reserve team as they place more prestige on their respective leagues and professional cup competitions. This has left the door open for non-league sides to have more success in the cup as it is classed as a bigger achievement for them to win it.

In recent years the entries from clubs from neighbouring counties have virtually been phased out. Most County FAs now have their own separate Senior Cup competitions and this, coupled with the formation of the West Midlands county, has meant the entries for the Cup are quite low in some seasons. This has seen Market Drayton Town and Shifnal Town both enter since the turn of the millennium to make up the numbers, despite not being located in Staffordshire.

From the 200809 season the Staffordshire FA introduced a cut off point whereby teams lower than level 9 in the English football league system can not compete in the Senior Cup. Teams below the level of the North West Counties League Premier Division and Midland Football Alliance now compete in the sister competition the Staffordshire Senior Vase.

Stoke City are the most successful sides in the competition's history with 18 wins.

Historically the non-league side with the most wins is Stafford Rangers who have won the cup 11 times since the Second World War.

The most successful side from outside what is traditionally classed as Staffordshire are Kidderminster Harriers from Worcestershire, who won the competition 4 times in the 1980s. Worcester City and Redditch United have also won the competition from this county and Macclesfield Town and Northwich Victoria from neighbouring Cheshire

Winners

Results by team

TeamWins Runners-up
Armitage Town01
Aston Villa165
Bilston Town55
Birmingham City36
Birmingham St. George20
Blakenall10
Brierley Hill Alliance 01
Burton Albion11
Burton United21
Chasetown01
Eastwood Hanley10
Halesowen Town11
Hednesford Town31
Kidderminster Harriers45
Kidsgrove Athletic52
Leek01
Leek Town17
Macclesfield Town21
Newcastle Town12
Northwich Victoria32
Oldbury United10
Paget Rangers01
Port Vale77
Redditch United10
Rocester11
Rushall Olympic33
Stafford Rangers1111
Stoke City1818
Sutton Coldfield Town01
Tamworth45
Walsall615
Wednesbury Old Athletic10
Wednesfield Social01
West Bromwich Albion138
Willenhall Town01
Wolverhampton Wanderers126
Worcester City10

References

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