2016–17 Midland Football League

The 2016–17 Midland Football League season was the third in the history of the Midland Football League, a football competition in England.

The Premier Division featured 18 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with four new clubs:

• Coventry United, promoted from Division One
• Shawbury United, promoted from the West Midlands (Regional) League
• St Andrews, promoted from the East Midlands Counties League
• Tividale, relegated from the Northern Premier League

To be promoted at the end of the season a team must:

1. Have applied to be considered for promotion by the end of November
2. Pass a ground grading examination by the end of March
3. Finish the season in a position higher than that of any other team also achieving criteria 1 and 2
4. Finish the season in one of the top three positions

The following six teams achieved criterion one:

• Alvechurch
• Coleshill Town
• Coventry United
• Heanor Town
• Sporting Khalsa
• Westfields

Division One featured 18 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with two new clubs:

• Chelmsley Town, promoted from Division Two
• Uttoxeter Town, joined from the Staffordshire County Senior League

Division Two featured 12 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with 4 new clubs:

• Continental Star, demoted from Premier Division
• Leamington Hibernian, promoted from Division Three
• Redditch Borough, promoted from Division Three
• Smithswood Firs, promoted from Division Three

Division Three featured 10 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with 4 new clubs:

• Castle Vale Town

• Montpellier

• Moors Academy

• NKF Burbage, from Leicestershire Senior League

• Midland Football League