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A BRIEF<br />
HISTORY<br />
Paul Garner started todayʼs <strong>Black</strong> <strong>Country</strong><br />
Rangers team in 1998 as an extension of <strong>Black</strong><br />
<strong>Country</strong> Rangers Youth, allowing a pathway<br />
from youth football into adult football.<br />
<strong>Black</strong> <strong>Country</strong> Rangers Youth played their football in the popular<br />
Stourbridge and District Youth League. The team over the years were<br />
very successful winning league titles and cups at various age groups.<br />
<strong>Black</strong> <strong>Country</strong> Rangers joined the under 18s floodlit league in 2005<br />
playing at at the original home of Willenhall Town at Noose Lane.<br />
The club played at Willenhall for two seasons in the Floodlit League<br />
before applying to join the West Midlands (Regional) League at the<br />
beginning of the 2007/8 season. The application was successful, and<br />
they were placed is Division Two, still playing their games from Willenhall<br />
Town.<br />
<strong>Black</strong> <strong>Country</strong> won the Division Two League Cup at the end of 2008/09<br />
season after finishing fifth in the League. After winning the cup at the<br />
home of Tividale, this proved a good omen as they moved from Willenhall<br />
Townʼs Noose Lane ground to the Beeches at the beginning of the<br />
2009/10 season. winning the final The Beeches home of Tividale.<br />
The 2009/10 season saw the club have their most successful season to<br />
date, doing the League and Cup double earning promotion into Division<br />
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