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Heath Hayes Football Club - History

HEATH HAYES FC - CLUB HISTORY
In 1965 they broke away from Heath Hayes Co-Op Youth Club and formed their own team which they then called Heath Hayes United.  There first season was spent in the Cannock Youth League and they ran the team from the Five Ways Inn, because of this they were not very popular with the Area Youth Organiser. After that they joined the Cannock Chase League Division Two, rapidly gaining promotion to Division One and then into the Premier League as well as having a brief flirtation with Sunday football. They also changed their headquarters to the Constitutional Club, so the club then took the name of Heath Hayes Cons F.C.
In the early 1970`s the club spent a couple of seasons in the Mid Staffs League, before joining the Staffs County League (South), where they spent fifteen very mixed and eventful seasons. In 1989 the Club moved back to the Five Ways and changed its name to Heath Hayes F.C. They also took the bold decision to join the Staffordshire Senior League.
They then changed leagues again to the West Midlands Regional League in 1996 where they spent ten seasons. During this time they became winners of the League Division One in the 98/99 season and won the Staffs F.A. Senior Vase Competition in 2002. Changes occurred in 2006 when a new committee and new manager Simon Davies were appointed. Due to boundary changes the club was moved into the Midland Combination Premier Division where they finished a respectable 8th. The 2007/08 season saw the introduction of the clubs first junior team, with Heath Hayes Under 12’s competing in the Lichfield recreational League. The senior team had a successful run in the FA Vase and also reached the final of the Walsall Senior Cup.
The 2008/09 season proved to be a successful season as the club won the Staffordshire Vase beating Ball Haye Green in a gripping final. It was also the first time the club entered the FA Cup unfortunately losing their opening tie. The 2009/10 season saw the club achieve charter standard status and made history by winning the league title and being promoted into the Midland Football Alliance. At the end of 2012/13 season Simon Davies stood down as Manager after 7 years with the club and the role was taken over by Steve Taylor. Hayes survived relegation that year and the club also celebrated its 50th birthday with a party in a marquee on the pitch at the end of the season. The continued growth of the club that year resulted in Hayes having the largest number of junior teams in it`s history with sixteen teams ranging from under 7`s to under 21`s.
Steve Taylor resigned from the first team manager role soon after the start of the 2014/15 season began and Simon Davies returned to the club only eighteen months after he had left. The club again avoided relegation by the narrowest of margins that season but the following season the club could not repeat this and were relegated to Division One of the newly formed Midland Football League. The U21`s however had a successful season, winning the North West League title. Last season Davies took charge again and further progress occurred at the club as the partnership with the Five Ways Inn pub, which had been it`s hospitality venue for many years, ended with the club having it`s own clubhouse on site. Davies steered his young Hayes side to a creditable 8th position and also clinched the Staffordshire Vase for the third time in the clubs history.
This season Life President John Deans has taken over as Chairman of the club. On the pitch Davies started as Manager but resigned in November with Jamie Hawkins taking over as 1st team Manager.
Heath Hayes highest position within the pyramid was attained in 2010-11 season when they finished eleventh in the Midland alliance. Last season the club finished fourteenth out of twenty in the Midland Football League. Their best season in the FA Cup  where in 2009, 2010 and 2012 when they reached the Preliminary Round. In the FA Vase they reached Round Three in 2007 when they beat Holbrook Miners Welfare and Borrowash Victoria before losing to Long Buckby and 2010 when they lost out to Bloxwich United.

 

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