Editing Burton United F.C.

{{short description|Former association football club in England}}
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{{Use British English|date=May 2015}}
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| founded    = 1901
| dissolved  = 1910 (merged with [[Burton Town F.C.|Burton All Saints]])
| ground     = [[Peel Croft]], [[Burton upon Trent]]
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'''Burton United Football Club''' was a [[association football|football]] club based in [[Burton upon Trent]] in England. The club was established in 1901 by a merger of [[Burton Swifts F.C.|Burton Swifts]] and [[Burton Wanderers F.C.|Burton Wanderers]], and played their last competitive season in 1910. In 1924 they merged with [[Burton Town F.C.|Burton All Saints]] continuing the lineage of the history of football in Burton, while at the same time legally ending the club. Between 1901 and 1907 the club were members of [[the Football League]].

==History==
The club was formed in 1901 when [[Burton Swifts F.C.|Burton Swifts]] merged with [[Burton Wanderers F.C.|Burton Wanderers]]. Swifts had played in the Football League since 1892, whilst Wanderers had been Football League members between 1894 and 1897 but were now members of the [[Midland Football League (1889)|Midland League]]. It was unusual for a smaller town such as Burton to host two Football League clubs so it was hoped the merger would see an upturn in fortunes for the United club.

[[File:BurtonUnited.jpg|thumb|left|The Burton United team of [[1906–07 Football League|1906–07]]]]
The new club took Swifts' place in the [[Football League Second Division|Second Division]] of the Football League and took over residence at their [[Peel Croft]] home. However, the new club failed to achieve success, and never finished above 10th place or made it past the first round of the [[FA Cup]]. In the [[1904–05 Football League|1904–05]] and [[1905–06 Football League|1905–06]] seasons the club finished in second last place, and in [[1906–07 Football League|1906–07]] finished bottom. At the end of the season the club failed to win re-election, losing their Football League place to [[Fulham F.C.|Fulham]].<ref>Dave Twydell (2001) ''Denied F.C.: The Football League election struggles'' , Yore Publications, p13, {{ISBN|1874427984}}</ref> Following the re-election meeting [[Port Vale F.C.|Burslem Port Vale]] resigned from the League, and although United applied to take their place, it was instead offered to and accepted by [[Oldham Athletic F.C.|Oldham Athletic]].<ref>Twydell, p7</ref>

The club dropped into the [[West Midlands (Regional) League|Birmingham & District League]], and in 1909 also became members of the [[Southern League (football)|Southern League]]. At the end of the [[1909–10 Southern Football League|1909–10]] season the club finished bottom of the Birmingham & District League and second bottom of their Southern League division, and subsequently merged with Burton All Saints, who had been established around the same time as United. They became [[Burton Town F.C.|Burton Town]] in 1924. They ceased playing in 1940, and were merged into [[Burton Albion F.C.|Burton Albion]] shortly after they were founded in 1950. Albion did not reach the second tier of English football, however, until [[2015–16 in English football|2015–16]], when they were promoted to the by-now [[Football League Championship]].

==Records==
*'''[[FA Cup]]'''
**Best performance: First round, [[1906–07 FA Cup|1906–07]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{fchd|id=BURTONU|name=Burton United}}
*{{fchd|id=BURTONAS|name=Burton All Saints}}
*{{fchd|id=BURTONT|name=Burton Town}}
*[http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Burton_United/Burton_United.htm Burton United] – Historical Kits

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