Droitwich Spa F.C. Droitwich Spa F.C. Droitwich Spa Football Club is a football club based in Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire, England. They are currently members of the and played at King George V Fields until 2017. For the 2017/18 season they are ground sharing, and play their home matches at Stourport Swift's Walshes Meadow. They are nicknamed The Saltmen. The club was established in 1985 as a Sunday league club, only moving into Saturday football in 2000, when they joined the Midland Combination. In 2006–07 the club finished third in Division Two, earning promotion to Division One. In 2014 the league merged with the
Droitwich Spa is likely derived from Sal meaning "salt" and weorp which means "to throw up" i.e. "the river which throws up salt" which overflows from the salt brines. The town is situated on massive deposits of salt, and salt has been extracted there since ancient times. The natural Droitwich brine contains of salt – ten times stronger than sea water and rivalled only by the Dead Sea. During the Roman era the settlement was known as "Salinae" and was located at the crossroads of several Roman roads. Railway construction in 1847 revealed Roman mosaic pavements, and later excavations unearthed a Roman