BLOXWICH United AFC are starting to build upon some solid foundations.

Formed in 2006 as Birchills United, we have made rapid progress both on and off-the-field since then, scooping the Wolverhampton Combination title in 2006/07, the West Midlands (Regional) League Division One crown at the end of our first season of senior non-League football in 2007/08 and the JW Hunt Cup at Molineux in 2008/09 after finishing as runners-up in the West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division.

Having been based at The Old Red Lion Ground in the town since the summer of 2007, we want to embrace our local community.

"The fact that all of our players are local lads counts for a lot. They have developed well together as a team over the past couple of years and are great mates off-the-field as well.

"It's nice that we are able to bring together lads from areas such as Bloxwich, Leamore, Beechdale, Mossley and Delves and see them mixing well and working hard for each other.

"There is so much talent locally and we want to be able to provide a platform for it to thrive and give local people a team to be proud of.

"A lot of people who followed Blakenall and Bloxwich Town have already started to come along to see what we are about. We want to be able to reach out to the local community and give them a club that they can associate with as well as raising the profile of the town both locally and nationally.

"We are ambitious and really want to move the club forward both on and off-the-field. To do that we need the help and support of local businesses and volunteers who are prepared to give up their spare time to assist us.

"We want to reach as far as we can. The beauty of football is that anything is possible with hard work and application.

"The foundations are in place here and I feel that we are on the verge of something good. At the moment there are just a handful of us running the whole club, but with the support of the local community I am excited by what we can go on to achieve."

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