Blidworth Welfare Football Club is a football club based in Blidworth, near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. They are currently members of the . History Blidworth Welfare was initially formed in 1926 as Folk House Old Boys FC but changed to Blidworth Welfare FC in 1982. Since 2008, the club has played in the Central Midlands League until 2022 when they won promotion to the United Counties League. They first entered the FA Cup in the 1993–94 season. In the beginning Folk House Old Boys Football Club was formed in 1926 with the intentions being that it gave local miners and residents a football club in which they could play organised and competitive matches against other local football clubs. Change to Blidworth Welfare FC The 1982–83 season was a big one for the club as they changed their name to Blidworth Welfare FC and became founding members of the newly formed Northern Countries East League, a competition founded from the merging of the old Midlands Counties league and the Yorkshire League. Blidworth joined the Division One South of the NCEL when it was recognised starting in the 1984–85 season and then twelve months later the club joined the NCEL Division Three following further re-organisation of the leagues. The 1986–87 season saw the club leave the NCEL to join the Central Midlands League starting in their Premier Division, the move was a successful one as the club were soon promoted to the Supreme Division in 1990. The 1990s and the FA England National Team Invitation In 1994 Blidworth were promoted back to the Northern Counties East League for the following 94–95 season where they competed in Division One. It did not last long though as the club were relegated back to the Central Midlands Supreme Division at the end of the 97–98 season as they finished bottom. They lost all 28 league games, conceding 186 goals and scoring only eight in that season, a campaign so bad that The FA invited them to a training session with the England national football team. The club were invited to the FA's Lilleshall Centre of Excellence for a tour of the facilities and then the afternoon of training from England's coaches. John Slater was in charge for the 1998–1999 season as the club were relegated to the lowest point of the football pyramid, the Central Midlands Premier Division. Slater resigned and the club were close to