Gornal Athletic

Ground Address: Garden Walk Stadium, Garden Walk, Lower Gornal, DY3 2NR

Telephone: 01384 358398

Directions to Gornal’s Ground: From Dudley town centre take the A459 towards Sedgley. Turn left at the Aashiq's Restaurant (formerly the Green Dragon pub) into Jews Lane. Take the second exit at roundabout into the A4175 (Church Street) and continue down the hill until you reach the Old Bulls Head pub. Turn left into Redhall Road and second left into Garden Walk.

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Gornal Athletic have an excellent ground with a large terrace on the near side next to the entrance and clubhouse. There are a small number of covered seats with another stand on the other side of the ground with a further 50 or so seats.

Formed in 1945 Gornal Athletic now play in the West Midlands (Regional) League - Premier Division with their reserve side entering a side in Division One of the same league.

Recent History

After winning promotion back to the Premier Division in the 2003/04 season, Gornal Athletic's very sucsessfull Youth Team Manager Simon Williams was promoted to First Team Manager for the new 2004/05 season. Williams lead Gornal Athletic to one of their best Premier League finishes for 20 years finishing in a creditable 10th position, also that season reaching the League Cup Semi Finals, narrowly losing out to League Champions Tipton Town 2-1 over two legs, with a squad mainly made up of Youth Team players from the season before and a couple of retained First Team players.

2005/06 was a good season for Gornal finishing as runners up to Market Drayton, in what was a very tough and long season. For Athletic to go one better in the 2006/07 season they had to finish top of the table, after spending most of the season in the top two it looked a real possibilty. However, with a couple of players leaving the club on transfer deadline day and a number of injuries to key players they lost theirr way and let it slip over the last few weeks of the season.