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Last Result: Tuesday 22nd April 2008 Riverway 3 Sporting Khalsa 0
West Midlands (Regional) League - Division One
Current League Position: 16th
Ground Address: Abbey Park Stadium, Glastonbury Crescent, Mossley Estate, Bloxwich, WS3 2RQ
Telephone: 01922 477640
Grounmd Directions: Leave the M6 at junction 11 and turn off the A462 into Broad Lane. Turn right into Creswell Crescent after County and Borough signs. Ground is immediately after Abbey Primary School.
 The club was established in 1991. Since its formation the club has played senior football in the local Walsall & District Sunday leagues except for two seasons between 1995 and 1997 when the club played Saturday football at a semi-professional level.
The changing rooms at Sporting Khalsa, pictured left.
 From 1991 to 1997 the club had a small number of youth sides and gained considerable success. During the 995/96 season they won the Birmingham boys Under 16 league and became runner-up in the league cup. Due to lack of resources, both financial and manpower, they reluctantly abandoned their youth policy.
With a more solid foundation and re-organisation of the executive committee in 2004, the club re-joined the West Midlands Regional League Division Two with a continued focus on teams made up entirely from players from ethnic minorities. In 2004/05 the first team gained promotion into Division One of West Midlands Regional League. The senior reserves reached two semi-finals within the Walsall and District Sunday League. It also restarted a youth policy and fielded a under 8’s and under 9’s teams in the Walsall junior league.
  2005 was a year to remember, as the club became the first Asian semi-professional football club in the country to own its own ground. The decision to purchase the Abbey Park Stadium (formerly home to Bloxwich Town) was taken by the current executive committee on the basis that the club needed a permanent base from which to build upon its successes to date and in order to attract a wider range of players, which gives the foundation to became the biggest and the best footballing centre for Asian talent in the country. Walsall Football Club played a friendly to mark the official opening of the new ground, and was watched by a crowd of around 600.  For season 2007/08 the club will field six junior teams (u7s, u8s, u9s, u10s, u11s and u14s), three male adult teams including seniors, reserves and over 35s, as well as the first Asian Ladies team. The Club has increased the number of children who are active members of the Club from 10, two years ago, to over 140 and wish to expand this to over 200 this year. The club aims to achieve the prestigious FA Community Club Charter Standard by the end of 2007. 
The small stand behind the near goal at Sporting Khalsa and the entrance to the social club which is constructed out of a number of metal containers.
 The club aims to help tackle social excl  usion, and provide football opportunities for all members of the community. Sporting Khalsa aims to use “the power of sport” to contribute to the tackling of social exclusion. The club believe that sport belongs to, and should be enjoyed by, everyone equally. Their commitment is to eliminate discrimination whether by  reason of gender, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, colour, religion or ability and to encourage equal opportunities and to enable and provide access to a range of sports for all members of the community, regardless of age, gender, ability, race or religion. The main current activity the club participates in is football but, it also runs a Dhol Club.
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For the 2007/08 season Cresswell Wanderers share Sporting Khalsa's ground, also playing in the West Midlands (Regional) League - Division One.
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