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| Full name | Gedling Miners Welfare Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Miners | ||
| Founded | 1919 (as Gedling Football Club) | ||
| Ground | Plains Road Mapperley, Nottingham | ||
| Capacity | 2,000 | ||
| Chairman | Vic Hulme | ||
| Manager | Ruben Wiggins-Thomas | ||
| League | United Counties League Division One | ||
| 2023–24 | United Counties League Division One, 12th of 21 | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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Gedling Miners Welfare Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Mapperley, Nottingham, England. Founded in 1919 as the works team of Gedling Colliery, the club went into abeyance in 1935 due to a lack of support. It reformed in 1941 and soon began its most successful period, prompting the Daily Mirror to describe Gedling as "Nottinghamshire's leading amateur team" in 1956. The club's reputation had waned by the mid-1960s, and the team endured relative obscurity until it joined the nationwide league system in 2003. Gedling now competes in the United Counties League (UCL) Division One at the tenth tier of the English football pyramid.
Gedling has hosted home matches at Plains Road since 1942. Before transferring to the UCL in 2021, the club competed in the East Midlands Counties Football League (EMCFL) Premier Division and two Central Midlands Football League (CML) divisions before that. National tournament records include reaching the second round of the FA Amateur Cup in 1953–54, 1955–56 and 1956–57; the second qualifying round of the FA Cup in 1949–50 and 1954–55; and the first round of the FA Vase in 2007–08, 2014–15 and 2023–24. The team are nicknamed "the Miners" and their colours are primarily yellow and blue.