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2012–13 Midland Football Alliance

football league season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ4628344 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2012–13 Midland Football Alliance season was the 19th season of the Midland Football Alliance, a football league in England.

Clubs

The league featured 19 clubs from the previous season, along with three new clubs:

Continental Star, promoted from the Midland Football Combination

Gornal Athletic, promoted from the West Midlands (Regional) League

Stourport Swifts, relegated from the Southern Football League

From this league, only Boldmere St Michaels, Bridgnorth Town, Causeway United, Loughborough University, Stourport Swifts, Stratford Town and Westfields have applied for promotion.

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The public source identifies “2012–13 Midland Football Alliance” as football league season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Midland, Football and Alliance.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Midland, Football and Alliance providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “2012–13 Midland Football Alliance” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.