WHO ARE WORCESTER RAIDERS FC?

A step six team will play at a stadium with a capacity of 11,499 this season as Worcester Raiders have announced they will be moving from Claines Lane to Sixways Stadium the home of Worcester Warriors rugby union club. The co-owners of the rugby club Colin Goldring and Jason Whittingham became joint majority owners of Worcester Raiders in the process.

The club were formed in 2001 as a youth football club. They joining the Worcester &  District Football League in 2009 as a senior side and then in 2013 they moved to the West Midlands (Regional) League Division Two, gaining promotion in their first season in the league system. In 2019 they won Division One gaining promotion to the Premier Division and will enter the FA Vase for the first time in the 2020/21 season. 

They will visit Coventry Sphinx (of the step 5 Midland Football League Premier Division) in the first qualifying round of the FA Vase to be played on Saturday 19th September. 

Worcester City who were demoted from the National League North at the end of the 2016/17 season but asked the football association to placed in the Midland League Premier Division due to rising costs in running the club after they lost their St Georges Lane ground in 2013. 

After a period of ground sharing at Kidderminster Harriers and Bromsgrove Sporting they will return back to their home city and play at the Worcestershire FA headquarters at Claines Lane.