The club was established in 1991. Over the years the club has always played Senior football in the local Walsall & District Sunday leagues. For two seasons between 1995 and 1997 the club played Saturday football at a semi-professional level. It has enjoyed modest success throughout. From 1991 to 1997 it used to have a small number of youth sides and gained considerable success within the season 1995/96 by winning the Birmingham boys Under 16 league and became runner-up in the league cup. Due to lack of resources, both financial and manpower, it reluctantly abandoned the 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 (semi-professional level seven league) with a continued focus on teams made up entirely from players from ethnic minorities. In season 2004/05 the first team gained promotion into Division One of West Midlands Regional League (FA League Pyramid Structure level six). 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 has been 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. Walsall Football Club will be playing another friendly game in early august 2006. Last season the club also, fielded six juniors sides ranging from U7s, U8s U9s, U10s and U12s (all playing in the Walsall Junior League), the first Asian ladies side (playing in the South Staffordshire League) plus a senior reserves side (playing in the Lichfield & District Sunday League Division One). 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 which to expand this to over 200 this year. The club aims to achieve the prestigious FA Community Club Charter Standard by the end of the year (only achieve by less then 1% of all football club is the country). The club aims to help tackle social exclusion, 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. Sport belongs to, and should be enjoyed by, everyone equally. Our 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. Sporting Khalsa Football Club have re-emphasised, the importance of grassroots development in sports in the ethnic minority community and to broaden the scope of development and thereby guarantee the sustainability of the development process. Only through systematic and scientific coaching with targets set, that the standard of sport of within the ethnic minority community can be raised to an appreciable level. To achieve this there has to be a focus on coaching youth players from the age of six, with coaches from Qualified FA coaches. Because the club has learned a great deal from setting up and running football teams from the ages of seven to over 35’s it has very good experience of the challenges it faces going forward.