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Rushall Olympic Football Club is an English football club based in Rushall, a former mining village that forms part of the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall. The team competes in the National League North, the sixth tier of the English football league system.

Early history

Although football had been played in the village for at least 20 years previously, the earliest known reference to Rushall Olympic Football Club is in local newspaper reports on matches from the 1893–94 season. The club joined the Cannock & District League in 1895, finishing as runners-up in their first season and later joined the Junior (where they were champions in 1903–04), Amateur, Parks and Senior sections of the Walsall & District League. During the inter-war years, the team won a number of local honours. At this time, the team comprised mainly local colliery workers and played on a field behind the Miners Arms pub in Rushall and changed in the pub itself. However, some time prior to the Second World War, the club disbanded. In 1951, a group of local young men decided to re-form the club. They approached the proprietor of a local fish and chip shop for permission to use his premises as their headquarters and secured the use of Rowley Place as a home ground. The club joined the Walsall & District Amateur League, where the team won the Second Division championship in 1952–53, and later the First Division championship in 1955–56, after which they gained promotion to the Staffordshire County League (South), where they won the Second Division title at the first attempt. Following promotion to the First Division, the club won four championship titles between 1960 and 1965. In 1975, in a bid to gain a higher league status, the club decided to move three miles away to the Aston University Sports Ground, just off the main A34 Walsall to Birmingham road. Meanwhile, the club obtained the lease on some land in Daw End, Rushall, and the new Dales Lane ground was officially opened on 14 August 1977.

Key

Key to league record

• Level = Level of the league in the current league system
• Pld = Games played
• W = Games won
• D = Games drawn
• L = Games lost
• GF = Goals for
• GA = Goals against
• GD = Goals difference
• Pts = Points
• Position = Position in the final league table
• Top scorer and number of goals scored shown in bold when he was also top scorer for the division.

Key to cup records

• Res = Final reached round
• Rec = Final club record in the form of wins-draws-losses
• PR = Preliminary round
• QR1 (2, etc.) = Qualifying Cup rounds
• G = Group stage
• R1 (2, etc.) = Proper Cup rounds
• QF = Quarter-finalists
• SF = Semi-finalists
• F = Finalists
• A(QF,SF,F) = Area quarter-, semi-, finalists
• W = Winners

Seasons

Year	League														Cup competitions						Manager
	Division	Lvl	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Position	Leading league scorer		Average attendance	FA Cup		FA Trophy		FA Vase
												Name	Goals		Res	Rec	Res	Rec	Res	Rec
Joined the West Midlands (Regional) League from the Staffordshire League
1978–79	West Midlands (Regional) League Division One		34	21	6	7	70	37	+33	48	4th of 18				—		—		—
1979–80			36	28	5	3	79	17	+62	61	1st of 19
1980–81	West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division		42	15	13	14	50	52	-2	43	12th of 22								PR	0-0-1
1981–82			42	16	18	8	72	54	+18	50	6th of 22				PR	0-1-1			PR	0-0-1
1982–83			38	12	8	18	59	66	-7	32	14th of 20				PR	1-1-1			R2	2-1-1
1983–84			38	11	11	16	55	59	-4	33	13th of 20				QR1	0-1-1			R1	1-0-1
1984–85			38	12	10	16	57	58	-1	34	13th of 20				QR1	0-0-1			R4	4-1-1
1985–86			38	14	9	15	63	65	-2	37	11th of 20				PR	1-1-1			PR	0-0-1
1986–87			38	13	8	17	60	63	-3	34	12th of 20				PR	0-0-1			R2	2-1-1
1987–88			34	13	7	14	43	44	-1	33	9th of 18				PR	1-1-1			R2	2-1-1
1988–89			40	22	11	7	73	39	+34	77	5th of 21				QR2	2-0-1			PR	0-0-1
1989–90			40	15	5	20	65	56	+9	50	14th of 21				QR1	1-1-1			PR	0-0-1
1990–91			42	17	12	13	67	51	+16	63	12th of 22				QR1	1-1-1			R3	3-0-1
1991–92			36	16	9	11	61	38	+23	57	8th of 19				PR	0-0-1			—
1992–93			36	17	7	12	61	53	+8	58	7th of 19				QR3	3-3-1			PR	0-0-1
1993–94			38	10	7	21	53	76	-23	34	17th of 20				PR	0-0-1			R1	1-1-1
Midland Football Alliance created. Club transferred to the newly created league.
1994–95	Midland Football Alliance	8	38	9	10	19	60	85	-25	37	18th of 20				PR	0-0-1	—		PR	0-0-1
1995–96			36	15	5	16	56	65	-9	46	12th of 19				PR	0-0-1			R3	4-0-1
1996–97			38	10	10	18	40	59	-19	40	16th of 20				PR	0-0-1			QR2	0-0-1
1997–98			38	12	8	18	51	57	-6	44	16th of 20				PR	0-0-1			R1	1-0-1
1998–99			36	16	10	12	57	44	+13	58	7th of 20				PR	0-0-1			R2	2-0-1
1999–2000			42	20	9	13	75	65	+10	69	7th of 22				PR	0-1-1			QR2	0-0-1
2000–01			42	28	9	5	98	28	+70	93	2nd of 22				PR	0-0-1			R5	5-1-1
2001–02			42	22	11	9	81	50	+31	77	5th of 22				QR1	1-1-1			R4	2-0-1	John Allen Kevin Hadley
2002–03			42	31	6	5	94	37	+57	96	2nd of 20				PR	0-0-1			R3	1-0-1	Kevin Hadley
2003–04			46	15	16	15	58	55	+3	61	14th of 24				PR	0-0-1			R1	0-0-1	John Allen
			Level of the league decreased after the Conference North and South creation.
2004–05		9	42	27	7	8	88	44	+44	88	1st of 22 Promoted				QR2	2-0-1			QR2	0-0-1
2005–06	Southern Football League Western Division	8	42	17	11	14	73	57	+16	62	10th of 22			116	PR	0-0-1	QR2	1-0-1	—
2006–07	Southern Football League Division One Midlands		42	15	9	18	56	55	+1	54	15th of 22			120	PR	0-0-1	QR2	2-1-1
2007–08			40	23	7	10	68	23	+45	76	5th of 21			152	QR4	4-0-1	QR3	2-1-1			Paul Holleran
			Lost in the play-off semifinal
2008–09	Northern Football League Division One South		38	20	8	10	63	42	+21	68	5th of 20			127	PR	0-0-1	QR1	1-1-1
			Lost in the play-off semifinal
2009–10			42	16	11	15	68	61	+7	59	12th of 22			133	QR1	1-0-1	QR1	0-0-1			Neil Kitching
2010–11			42	26	3	13	78	45	+33	81	3rd of 22			131	PR	0-1-1	QR2	2-1-1
			Promoted after winning the play-off
2011–12	Northern Premier League Premier Division	7	42	17	10	15	52	51	+1	61	8th of 22			300	QR4	3-0-1	QR1	0-0-1
2012–13			42	20	10	12	69	55	+14	70	6th of 22			254	QR1	0-0-1	R1	3-0-1
2013–14			46	21	12	13	79	65	+14	75	7th of 24			193	QR4	2-0-2	QR2	1-0-1
2014–15			46	21	9	16	76	64	+12	72	9th of 24			245	QR2	1-0-1	QR3	2-1-1			Richard Sneekes
2015–16			46	19	12	15	74	61	+13	69	10th of 24			259	QR3	2-2-1	QR2	1-1-1
2016–17			46	18	10	18	60	60	0	64	12th of 24			261	QR2	1-1-1	QR1	0-0-1			Trevor Burroughs John Allen
2017–18			46	19	9	18	73	79	-6	66	8th of 24			245	QR2	1-1-1	QR2	1-0-1			Wayne Thomas Liam McDonald
2018–19	Southern Football League Premier Division Central		42	17	11	14	56	49	+7	62	8th of 22			247	QR1	0-1-1	QR1	0-0-1			Liam McDonald
2019–20			33	15	8	10	58	43	+15	53	5th of 22			270	QR3	2-0-1	QR1	0-0-1
			The season was declared null and void due to COVID-19
2020–21			8	3	4	1	14	12	+2	13	4th of 22			–	QR1	0-1-0	R1	1-0-1
			The season was declared null and void due to COVID-19
2021–22			40	20	9	11	80	54	+26	69	4th of 21			371	QR2	1–1–1	R1	1–0–1
			Lost in the play-off semifinal
2022–23			42	22	7	13	71	52	+19	73	5th of 22			335	QR1	0–0–1	QR3	0–0–1
			Promoted after winning the play-off
2023–24	National League North	6	46	15	9	22	61	73	-12	54	19th of 24	Danny Waldron	16	522	QR3	1–0–1	R2	0–0–1
2024–25															R1	3–1–1	R3	1–0–1			Adam Stevens Richard Sneekes

Notes

• Rushall Olympic at the Football Club History Database