The Birmingham Club

The Birmingham Club was an English association club based at the cricket pitch on the Aston Lower Grounds. The club was formed by C. H. Quilter, the owner and operator of the Lower Grounds amusement park and gardens, as an extra attraction for visitors, and many of its players were Quilter's employees at the Lower Grounds. Quilter himself was a regular player for the club.

Birmingham

Full name	The Birmingham Football Club
Founded	1875
Dissolved	c.1881
Ground	Aston Lower Grounds
Home colours

The club gave its foundation date as 1875[1] and its first reported match was against the original West Bromwich football club on 9 January 1875, at home, resulting in a 2-1 victory.[2] By 1877 the club boasted 150 members and, although its first game was to association rules, it was also a member of the Sheffield Football Association and played some matches to the Sheffield rules.

The club entered the FA Cup in 1879-80, being drawn against Panthers F.C., who withdrew, in the first round, and losing 6-0 to Oxford University in the second, after holding the University to 1-0 at half-time, but having to play an hour of the match with ten men after Nicholls broke his collarbone.[3]

In the early 1880s, the cricket pitch was sold off for housing. The club rarely entered competitive tournaments (its only match in the Birmingham Senior Cup was in 1879), and its status as an income generator for the Lower Grounds meant its purpose now no longer existed, the club was dissolved.