Houghton Main Colliery F.C.

Category	Sports
Dates	Darfield St George's in the FA Cup 1919; Houghton Main Colliery from 1920; Yorkshire League champions 1921-22; renamed Darfield 1923; Sheffield Senior Cup 1927; wound up 1932; Houghton Main re-formed after 1945.

A Darfield football club that played as Houghton Main Colliery from 1920 to 1923, winning the Yorkshire League in its first season, before becoming Darfield; a later club took the Houghton Main name after the Second World War and played in Sheffield's county senior league into the 2020s.

The mining history in this record

The club began as Darfield St George's, which entered the FA Cup in 1919. The following summer it took the name Houghton Main Colliery, after the colliery near Darfield, reached the third qualifying round of the FA Cup in 1920-21, and joined the Yorkshire League, which it won at the first attempt in 1921-22 with 24 wins from 32 games. It fell to fifteenth the next season, and in 1923 it left for the Barnsley Association League and became simply Darfield. As Darfield it won the Sheffield Senior Cup in 1927 and topped the Barnsley league the following year, but the club was wound up in 1932.

Legacy today

A new club using the old name, Houghton Main, was founded after the Second World War. It joined the Sheffield and Hallamshire County Senior League in 2003-04, won its Division Two and Division One titles in 2010-11 and 2011-12, and left the league in 2024.

Recorded claims

Individual factual claims, each tagged with how solidly it's grounded and attached to the source(s) that support it. Where sources disagree, both are kept.

Darfield St George's changed its name to Houghton Main Colliery in the summer of 1920. (documented fact) ¹
Houghton Main won the Yorkshire League in 1921-22, its first season in the competition. (documented fact) ^1,2
In 1923 the club joined the Barnsley Association League and was renamed Darfield; it was wound up in 1932. (documented fact) ¹
A new Houghton Main club was founded after the Second World War and played in the Sheffield and Hallamshire County Senior League from 2003-04 until 2024. (documented fact) ^1,2
The club's name was taken from Houghton Main Colliery. (reasonable inference) ¹

Mines

Houghton Main Colliery — South Yorkshire
The Darfield club played as Houghton Main Colliery from 1920 to 1923, taking the colliery's name; its later successor is Houghton Main (Wikipedia, Football Club History Database).

Sources

(secondary) Darfield F.C. — Wikipedia
(secondary) Houghton Main — Football Club History Database

Record created: 29 September 2026 · Last researched: 3 October 2026