With the teams now confirmed in the Southern Premier League Central, we’re taking a whistle stop tour of all of the clubs who we’ll be playing next season with our bite sized info packs! The third team that starts with B is a short hop over to Bromsgrove!
Name: Bromsgrove Sporting FC
Founded: 2009
Nickname: The Rouslers
Stadium: Victoria Ground
A side who took the reigns of the Worcestershire town’s premier club after the demise of Bromsgrove Rovers FC, Bromsgrove Sporting didn’t actually play a game until the 2010/11 season, after Rovers went into administration.
Having got three successive promotions in seasons 2016/17, 17/18 and 18/19, the Rouslers played their first Step 3 match in 2019/20 and finished fourth after 32 games when the season was eventually made null and void due to Covid-19.
Last season saw them finish 18th, the same position as the season before, just surviving the drop on both occasions. They play at the 3,500 capacity Victoria Ground, which they were offered the lease of in 2010.
The Rouslers are managed by former Hereford and Kettering player Michael McGrath, known by Brakes fans for his antics in an FA Trophy tie in 2021, in which Kettering ended the game with 8 men, that saw him sent off and respectively inherit a healthy ban.
Have we met before?
Not in a competitive game before, however we have played a few friendlies against the Rouslers before.
Brakes won 4-0 at the Victoria Ground in 2017, before a 2-1 win at Your Co-op Community Stadium the season after. The last game between the two sides was a 0-0 friendly meeting in 2020.
Distance - 25 miles
Travel Time - 38 minutes
Give them a follow…
You can find them on Twitter @SportingFC, Facebook /Bromsgrove Sporting FC and Instagram @rouslersofficial!
