Strathspey & Badenoch Welfare FA
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The Strathspey & Badenoch Welfare Football Association is the governing body overseeing amateur Scottish Welfare football in the Badenoch and Strathspey
area of Scotland
. It is affiliated to Scottish Welfare FA and Scottish Football Association
and has been running intermittently since its inaugural season in 1929-30. The winners on that occasion were the now defunct Nethy Bridge FC.
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Each club is also responsible for hosting its own Cup competition, but due to a limited number of competing clubs, as of season 2011 Cup matches also take place on Wednesay evenings (as opposed to the traditional Friday) with cup finals only being on a Sunday. 2011 has 2 cups competitions (played to a completion at the start and end of the season). These are:
Badenoch and Strathspey
Badenoch and Strathspey as a local government district 1975 to 1996Badenoch and Strathspey is a local government ward of the Highland council area and a ward management area of the Highland Council in Scotland...
area of Scotland
Scotland
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. It is affiliated to Scottish Welfare FA and Scottish Football Association
Scottish Football Association
The Scottish Football Association is the governing body of football in Scotland and has the ultimate responsibility for the control and development of football in Scotland. Members of the SFA include clubs in Scotland, affiliated national associations as well as local associations...
and has been running intermittently since its inaugural season in 1929-30. The winners on that occasion were the now defunct Nethy Bridge FC.
Competitions
There is an annual league competition which runs from June to August/September with each member club playing the others two or three times over the course, depending on the number of clubs participating. For the 2011 season, all league games take place on Wednesday evenings. The SBWFA League is presently sponsored by local CarrbridgeCarrbridge
Carrbridge is a village in Badenoch and Strathspey in the Scottish Highlands. It lies off the A9 road on the A938 road, west of Skye of Curr, southeast of Findhom Bridge, near Bogroy.It has the oldest stone bridge in the Highlands and nearby ancient pine forest contains the Landmark Forest...
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Each club is also responsible for hosting its own Cup competition, but due to a limited number of competing clubs, as of season 2011 Cup matches also take place on Wednesay evenings (as opposed to the traditional Friday) with cup finals only being on a Sunday. 2011 has 2 cups competitions (played to a completion at the start and end of the season). These are:
- Tomatin United Cup (Tomatin United F.C.)
- RBL Cup (RBL Aviemore FC)
Clubs
Member club numbers tend to fluctuate from season to season, with the most recent notable extinctions being Boat of Garten F.C., Grantown F.C. and Carrbridge F.C. The 2011 season is being competed for by the same 6 clubs as the previous year:- Aviemore Thistle
- One of two sides temporarily based in the village of CarrbridgeCarrbridgeCarrbridge is a village in Badenoch and Strathspey in the Scottish Highlands. It lies off the A9 road on the A938 road, west of Skye of Curr, southeast of Findhom Bridge, near Bogroy.It has the oldest stone bridge in the Highlands and nearby ancient pine forest contains the Landmark Forest...
, Thistle share their home park with local rivals RBL Aviemore. Thistle underwent a rebirth at the end of 2007 when the club almost went extinct, but the name and colours were saved at the 11th hour and a Jags side was successfully fielded for the 2008 season.
- Cromdale
- Cromdale recently returned to the SBWFA after being unable to field a side in the 2009 season.
- Kingussie
- One of the long-time member clubs, KingussieKingussieKingussie is a small town in the Highland region of Scotland. It is one settlement in the Highland Council ward of Badenoch and Strathspey, and is the capital of the district of Badenoch. It lies beside the A9 road, although the old route of the A9 serves as the town's main street...
hail from the village of that name, playing their games on the village's only public park. They have won the SBWFA League multiple times since 1929-30, with the last time being in 2011.
- RBL Aviemore
- RBL are Aviemore'sAviemoreAviemore is a town and tourist resort, situated within the Cairngorms National Park in the Highlands of Scotland. It is in the Badenoch and Strathspey committee area, within the Highland council area. The town is popular for skiing and other winter sports, and for hill-walking in the Cairngorm...
other Welfare club. The RBL part stands for Royal British LegionThe Royal British LegionThe Royal British Legion , sometimes referred to as simply The Legion, is the United Kingdom's leading charity providing financial, social and emotional support to those who have served or who are currently serving in the British Armed Forces, and their dependants.-History:The British Legion was...
and, unsurprisingly, the local Legion is the club's base. RBL won their first ever League title in 2009.
- Strathspey Thistle Colts
- This is a team formed for the 2010 season, made up of Under 19 players from Strathspey Thistle FCStrathspey Thistle F.C.Strathspey Thistle Football Club are a senior football club from Grantown-on-Spey in the Highlands in Scotland. They currently play in the Highland Football League, but played in the Scottish Junior Football pyramid from 1993...
of the Highland League. They romped to the title in 2010 but struggled the following year.
- Tomatin United
- United were formed by a group of TomatinTomatinTomatin is a small village on the River Findhorn in Strathdearn in the Scottish Highlands about south of the city of Inverness. The name derives from the Scottish Gaelic name Tom-Ah-Tin . The river Findhorn rises at Coignafearn, a large game estate near Tomatin, and then passes through Tomatin...
FC (former SBWFA members) players unable to get a regular game for the club due to its impressive squad. HIn 2011 they finished outside the bottom 2 for the first time since joining the SBWFA..
Previous League Winners
The complete list of League winning clubs since the Association's inception is given below:- 1929/30 Nethy Bridge FC
- 1930/31 Nethy Bridge FC
- 1932/33 Nethy Bridge FC
- 1933/34 Boat of Garten FC
- 1934-37 No competition
- 1938/39 Boat of Garten FC
- 1940-45 No competition
- 1946/47 Boat of Garten FC
- 1947/48 Kingussie FC
- 1948/49 Aviemore FC
- 1949/50 Aviemore FC
- 1950/51 Aviemore FC
- 1951/52 Aviemore FC
- 1952/53 Aviemore FC
- 1954 Aviemore FC
- 1955 REM (Royal Engineers)
- 1956 Nethy Bridge FC
- 1957 Nethy Bridge FC
- 1958 Nethy Bridge FC
- 1959 Kingussie FC
- 1960 Kingussie FC
- 1961 Kingussie FC
- 1962 Aviemore FC
- 1963 Aviemore FC
- 1964 Kingussie FC
- 1965 Kingussie FC
- 1966 Aviemore Thistle FC
- 1967 Kingussie FC
- 1968 Grantown FC
- 1969 Grantown FC
- 1970 Kingussie FC
- 1971 Carrbridge FC
- 1972-76 No competition
- 1977 Carrbridge FC
- 1978 Carrbridge FC
- 1979 Carrbridge FC
- 1980 Carrbridge FC
- 1981 Kingussie FC
- 1982 Grantown FC
- 1983 Newtonmore FC
- 1984 Coylum Bridge FC
- 1985 Grantown FC
- 1986 Grantown FC
- 1987-89 No competition
- 1990 Grantown FC
- 1991 Grantown FC
- 1992 Grantown FC
- 1993 Coylum Bridge FC
- 1994 Coylum Bridge FC
- 1995 Kingussie FC
- 1996 Grantown FC
- 1997-98 No competition
- 1999 Grantown FC
- 2000 Kingussie FC
- 2001 Kingussie FC
- 2002 Kingussie FC
- 2003 Kingussie FC
- 2004 Cromdale FC
- 2005 Tomatin FC
- 2006 Aviemore Thistle FC
- 2007 Tomatin FC
- 2008 Carrbridge FC
- 2009 RBL Aviemore FC
- 2010 Strathspey Thistle Colts FC
- 2011 Kingussie FC