Kidderminster Harriers
Also written as Kidderminster.
The club
Kidderminster Harriers Football Club are a club from Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, nicknamed Kiddy, the Carpetmen and the Reds. They are not a Kidderminster side from any other country. Wikipedia says they formed in 1886 from an athletics and rugby club that had existed since 1877, and played their first game away at Wilden on 18 September 1886, winning 2-1. They have played at Aggborough throughout their history; capacity is 6,444. Their colours are not described in words on the page, though a photo caption refers to the club playing in red.
Paul Wotton is listed as manager, and a table page gives his appointment as 26 May 2026. Adam Murray was appointed for 2025-26 and left for Barrow shortly after winning promotion.
Recent seasons
Harriers were relegated from the National League in 2015-16, finishing 23rd of 24. They were then second in the sixth tier in 2016-17, fourth in 2017-18, tenth in 2018-19, fifteenth in the 2019-20 season curtailed by COVID-19, and fourth in 2021-22. In 2022-23 they finished sixth and were promoted through the play-offs, but were relegated again in 2024-25. In 2025-26 they finished third in the National League North and won promotion through the play-offs.
Honours and landmarks
Conference champions in 1993-94 and 1999-2000; FA Trophy winners in 1986-87, and runners-up three times; National League North play-off winners in 2023 and 2026; Worcestershire Senior Cup winners 27 times, a county record; Birmingham Senior Cup winners seven times; West Midlands League champions six times.
Notable scorelines
Their record win is 25-0 against Hereford Club in the Birmingham Senior Cup on 12 October 1889, and their record defeat 0-13 at Darwen in the FA Cup on 24 January 1891. In 1994 they reached the FA Cup fifth round, beating Birmingham City 2-1 away and Preston North End 1-0, then losing 1-0 to West Ham United. In 2004 they drew 1-1 with Wolverhampton Wanderers in the third round and lost the replay 2-0. In 2013-14 they beat Newport County 4-2 and Peterborough United 3-2 in a replay before losing 1-0 at Sunderland in the fourth round, and in 2021-22 they lost 2-1 to West Ham United after extra time in the fourth round.
European record
None found. The page read contains no information on European competition, so none is shown from the sources read here.
Quotes
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Right now (2026-27 season)
Kidderminster play in the National League, the fifth tier. A Wikipedia table dated to 31 October 2026 had them 13th with 21 points from 16 games (five wins, six draws, five defeats), 17 goals for and 16 against, goal difference plus one.
In the FA Cup they are drawn at home to Doncaster Rovers, then of the third tier, in the first round proper on Saturday 7 November 2026 at 15:00 at Aggborough. A search snippet showed the same pairing in the 2025 draw, so the date of this tie rests on the 2026-27 Wikipedia FA Cup page alone. Their qualifying rounds and summer transfers were not established from the sources read here.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidderminster_Harriers_F.C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026-27_FA_Cup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026-27_National_League
Researched and written for not4quarters. Where a fact could not be established from the sources read, this page says so rather than guessing.