They have won the Worcestershire Senior Cup a record 27 times and are the only club from the county ever to have played in the English Football League.
Kidderminster Harriers won the FA Trophy in 1987 and were crowned Conference champions in 1993–94, though Graham Allner's team were denied a place in the Football League due to the state of Aggborough.
Owing to their success soon after both Olympic and Harriers were subject to allegations of 'professionalism' and illegal payments to players, although the League Committee let off both clubs with a warning about future conduct.
[1] The club became the first from the town to enter the FA Cup and after winning 4 qualifying-round games, reached the first round proper (last 32).
In 1910 the then current England international full-back Jesse Pennington signed for Harriers after a dispute with his then club West Bromwich Albion.
In this season Harriers made national headlines by signing Stanley Fazackerley, who had been the first £5,000 transfer in English football and scorer of the FA Cup Final winning goal for Sheffield United in 1915.
During an investigation Davis admitted he had offered Burton Town players a ten shillings bonus if they managed to beat Worcester City in the last match of the season.
Harriers proved a rich source of young quality players picked up by professional football clubs at this time, those moving to bigger clubs including full back Billy Blake (Crystal Palace), winger Fred Leedham (transferred to West Bromwich Albion for £300), Dennis Jennings (to Huddersfield Town for £600) and forward Norman Brookes (to Walsall for £70).
In 1963 Peter Wassall joined the Harriers on the advice of his brother Brendan after spells with Wolves, Aston Villa and Atherstone Utd.
Under player-manager Jon Chambers (ex Aston Villa) in 1983, Harriers were promoted to the Alliance Premier League (now the Conference) after finishing second to AP Leamington, who were refused entry on ground facility issues.
In 1989, Kidderminster Harriers launched their first Youth training scheme (YTS) – a first, because the club was still playing non-league football in the Vauxhall Conference.
The intake was coached by Graeme McKenzie and gained instance success finishing runners-up in their first season in the Midlands Floodlit league behind Hereford United.
[1] Ironically, the ground hosted an 8,000 crowd without any problems for the visit of West Ham United in that year's 5th round FA Cup.
Harriers received the biggest sell-on fee for a former non-league club, picking up £700,000 when Lee Hughes joined Coventry City in August 2001.
Harriers had sold Hughes to West Bromwich Albion in 1998 and under the sell-on clause negotiated by manager Allner at the time received 15% of any further transfer fee.
Backed by retired retail millionaire Chairman Lionel Newton, former Liverpool star Jan Mølby was appointed as manager for the 1999–2000 season.
Ex-Harriers captain and former Doncaster Rovers, Cheltenham Town player and Burnley assistant coach Mark Yates took over as Manager from the sacked Stuart Watkiss during the season.
[5] He steered the club away from minor danger of relegation in the 2005–06 season and during his first full campaign, took the side to the FA Trophy final at Wembley Stadium for the first time in 12 years.
[7] After a month of speculation and a number of names such as Jim Harvey and Jeff Kenna being mentioned as possible replacements for Mark Yates, Stalybridge Celtic Manager Steve Burr took over on an initial two-and-a-half-year contract,[8] which was extended to 2014 in March 2011.
Harriers also lost the second leg, again in front of a sell out crowd 3–1, confirming a 5–2 aggregate loss and Conference football for another season.
[25] On 5 March, Burr's former number two Gary Whild was appointed Harriers manager for the final 13 games until the end of the season.
This led to key players Chey Dunkley and Nathan Blissett being loaned to Oxford United[28] and Bristol Rovers[29] respectively, both moves being made permanent in January.
Reducing the budget further in January, several players were released including key striker Michael Gash[32] and instrumental midfielder Kyle Storer after just reaching 150 appearances for the club.
[39] Eustace guided Harriers to a second-place finished in their first season in the National League North, before they were beaten by Chorley in the play-off semi-finals.
After an early curtailing of the season, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, Russ Penn and Jimmy O'Connor were appointed manager and joint-manager, respectively.
Stevenage came back and scored the winner in the 88th minute in front of the new record trophy attendance of 53,262, which was also the very first competitive match to be held at the New Wembley.
achieved it in 2011, although Crawley were fully professional), shooting to national fame after defeating Birmingham City 2–1 away[58] and Preston North End 1–0 at home in the previous two rounds.
[60] In 2004 Kidderminster again reached the third round to face Premier League team and local rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers, Harriers were one minute away from causing a massive shock before an 89th-minute equaliser forced a replay, the game finishing 1–1 at Aggborough[61] Harriers lost the replay 2–0 although video footage clearly showed that the second goal did not cross the line.
[18] In the fourth round they lost away to Premier League Sunderland 1–0 in front of 25,081, of which 4,000 were travelling Kidderminster fans, to end their run.
Jarrod Bowen then scored for West Ham in the dying seconds of extra time as Harriers eventually lost 1–2 and were eliminated.