Just a quick note in qualification of this page: We believe that WMCFL has been running since 1979. The League was originally set up by six teams: Amblecote, Brierley Hill AOG, Calvary Temple, Chawn Hill Church, Oakham Evangelical and Tipton Pentecostal.

Records appear to be lost for the early days but we begin to have sketchy details from 1982 onwards. Since this time, the League has grown and more and more information has been kept and archived. We first had a web site back in the late nineties. I created the role of e-Secretary in 2001 and the web site has grown and grown since then. The first season that I began collating scorers was in 2003/4. Unfortunately, no records of scorers exist before then. Obviously, people scored goals before 2003 but any goal-scoring achievements before this are anecdotal.

So, this page could be referred to as the post-internet era. Interestingly enough, a similar situation exists in the Football League, where the mists of time have clouded history. People just used to score more goals in the old days when they played with five up front. And they appear to have wiped the slate clean since the advent of the Premier league. So here goes:

 

Most Teams: The most teams WMCFL has had in the League at any one time was 36 in the 2009/10 season. But it only lasted several weeks. Walsall Olympic dropped out after three weeks, so there was just one week-end, 19 September, when all 36 played, then we dropped to 35. Prior to that the immediately preceeding year was next highest with 31. Before that the 2000/1 season had been the highest with 24.

Fewest Teams: The fewest teams in the League was six as far as I'm aware when WMCFL first started. I know that the number had diminished back to seven in 1990/1. In more recent times, the fewest we've operated with was sixteen in 2004/5.

Most Divisions: In 2008/9 we introduced a third division for the first time. In 1998/9 we ran with one big division of fifteen that split into two halfway through the year. That was the last year we did that and since that time we've had at least two proper divisions.

Highest Number of Goals Scored: In 2000/1, Walsall Olympic scored a massive 118 goals. Granted, this was the year that we had a twelve team First Division. Nevertheless, the next nearest in Division One was Chawn Hill who did actually win the League that season with 79. Amblecote managed 72 in an eleven team division in 2003/4. Having flicked through the records, it's remarkable how often the team that wins the division is out-scored by the runners up. Halesowen Zion share the record for Division Two with Champions Church with 92. Junction Ten's 117 in 09/10 is a record for Division Three.

Highest Number of Goals Conceded: In 2000, the League expanded to 24 teams and we promoted six from Division Two. That year Brierley Hill conceded a whopping 116 goals in Division One. Again, that was in a twelve team division but remarkably they won three and drew one. Sandwell United run them close and hold the Division Two record with 113 in 07/08 and All Nations topped the Division Three chart in 08/09 with 108.

Fewest Goals Scored: St Matthew's hold the record with 15 in Division Two in 2003/4. However, we only had eight teams in that division that season. Rowley College hold the Division One record with 18 in 2005/6 and All Nations with 19 in Division Three in 08/09.

Fewest Goals Conceded: St Matthew's with just eight goals conceded in Division Two in 2005/6 sticks out like a sore thumb. Clarendon's 16 in 2007/8 is Division One's best effort, whilst Champions Church's 22 is Division Three's record.

Highest Goalscorer in One Season: Shawn Devonport's 43 in Champions Church's debut season 2008/9 stands way out in front as the record. The highest in Division One is Everton Morrison's 33 for Clarendon also in 2008/9 and the Division Two record is 41 also by Shawn Devonport in 2009/10.