THE OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME OF EAST GRINSTEAD TOWN FC | SEASON 2026|27 | ISSUE NO 3 | FREE
SOUTHERN COMBINATION FOOTBALL LEAGUE | PREMIER DIVISION TUESDAY 18 AUGUST 2026 | KICK OFF: 7.30PM
VS WICK SOUTHERN COMBINATION FOOTBALL LEAGUE | PREMIER DIVISION TUESDAY 18 AUGUST 2026 | KICK OFF 7.30PM
EAST GRINSTEAD TOWN FC The Vistavis Community Stadium College Lane | East Grinstead | RH19 3LS Tel: 01342 325885
WELCOME TO EAST COURT Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to tonight's game against Wick, opponents of ours on many occasions during our County League days of course. Saturday brought more dissapointment against Crawley Down with a narrow defeat and precious few clear-cut chances created at the other end. It means we await our first league goal and the wait for a league win here at home now stretches to 647 - yes 647 days. A reminder that we head to Nyewood Lane on Saturday to face Bognor Regis in the preliminary round of the FA Cup before a first visit to Jarvis Brook next Tuesday in the Peter Bentley League Cup. Thanks for your support and, you never know, this could be THE night. We live in hope.
Football Management
OWNERSHIP STATEMENT In accordance with the Football Association's Rule 2.13 (publication of ownership) in relation to Step 1 to Step 6 Clubs within the National League System East Grinstead Town FC is an unincorporated association / members club and a Community Amateur Sports Club (reg no CASC 02270).
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EAST GRINSTEAD TOWN F.C. VS WICK
LEAGUE
STANDINGS
SOUTHERN COUNTIES LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION TEAM
PL
W
D
L
F
A
GD
PTS
1
Eastbourne United
3
2
1
0
10
3
7
7
2
Haywards Heath Town
3
2
1
0
5
2
3
7
3
Roffey
2
2
0
0
11
2
9
6
4
Guernsey
2
2
0
0
4
0
4
6
5
Bexhill United
2
2
0
0
4
1
3
6
6
Newhaven
2
1
1
0
3
2
1
4
7
AFC Varndeanians
3
1
1
1
5
5
0
4
8
Crawley Down Gatwick
3
1
1
1
4
4
0
4
9
Lingfield
3
1
1
1
8
10
-2
4
10 Hassocks
2
1
0
1
6
3
3
3
11
Pagham
2
1
0
1
5
3
2
3
12 Midhurst
2
1
0
1
4
2
2
3
13 Seaford United
2
1
0
1
1
2
-1
3
14 Wick
2
1
0
1
3
6
-3
3
15
Horsham YMCA
2
0
1
1
3
4
-1
1
16 East Grinstead Town
3
0
1
2
0
2
-2
1
17
Billingshurst
3
0
1
2
5
8
-3
1
18 Forest Row
3
0
1
2
3
8
-5
0
19 Lancing
2
0
0
2
0
6
-6
0
20 Little Common
2
0
0
2
1
12
-11
0
EAST GRINSTEAD TOWN F.C. VS WICK
FIXTURES & RESULTS
Date
Venue
K/O / Score
Haywards Heath Town Guernsey Bexhill Town Crawley Down Gatwick Wick Bognor Regis Town Jarvis Brook Hassocks Forest Row
SCFL Premier SCFL Premier FA Cup extra prelim SCFL Premier SCFL Premier FA Cup prelim Peter Bentley Cup SCFL Premier SCFL Premier
0-0 0-1 3-0 0-1 7.30pm 3pm 7.45pm 3pm 11am
A A H A H
Crawley Down Gatwick Lydd Town Pagham Eastbourne United Little Common
SCFL Premier FA Vase 2 qual SCFL Premier SCFL Premier SCFL Premier
3pm 3pm 7.30pm 3pm 3pm
A A H A A
Seaford Town Lancing Billingshurst AFC Varndeanians Roffey
SCFL Premier SCFL Premier SCFL Premier SCFL Premier SCFL Premier
3pm 7.45pm 3pm 3pm 3pm
H A H
Haywards Heath Town Guernsey Horsham YMCA
SCFL Premier SCFL Premier SCFL Premier
3pm 3pm 3pm
A A H A
Newhaven Hassocks Lancing Lingfield
SCFL Premier SCFL Premier SCFL Premier SCFL Premier
3pm 3pm 3pm 11am
H A H A
Midhurst Forest Row Seaford Town Little Common
SCFL Premier SCFL Premier SCFL Premier SCFL Premier
3pm 3pm 3pm 3pm
H H H H
Old Varndeanians Roffey Bexhill Town Eastbourne United
SCFL Premier SCFL Premier SCFL Premier SCFL Premier
3pm 3pm 3pm 3pm
A A A A H
Billingshurst Pagham Wick Midhurst Lingfield
SCFL Premier SCFL Premier SCFL Premier SCFL Premier SCFL Premier
3pm 3pm 3pm 3pm 11am
A H A
Bexhill United Newhaven Horsham YMCA
SCFL Premier SCFL Premier SCFL Premier
3pm 3pm 3pm
H/A Opponents
Att Scorers
AUGUST Sat 1 Aug Tues 4 Aug Sat 8 Aug Sat Aug 15 Tues Aug 18 Sat 22 Aug Tues 25 Aug Sat 29 Aug Mon 31 Aug
A H H H H A A H H
560 277 172 Pamment 2, Perry 224
SEPTEMBER Sat 5 Sep Sat 12 Sep Tues 15 Sep Sat 19 Sep Sat 26 Sep
OCTOBER Sat 3 Oct Tues 6 Oct Sat 17 Oct Sat 24 Oct Sat 31 Oct
Newhaven FC
Horsham FC
NOVEMBER Sat 7 Nov Sat 14 Nov Sat 28 Nov
DECEMBER Sat 5 Dec Sat 12 Dec Sat 19 Dec Mon 28 Dec
JANUARY Sat 2 Jan Sat 16 Jan Sat 23 Jan Sat 30 Jan
FEBRUARY Sat 6 Feb Sat 13 Feb Sat 20 Feb Sat 27 Feb
MARCH Sat 6 Mar Sat 13 Mar Sat 20 Mar Sat 27 Mar Mon 29 Mar
APRIL Sat 3 Apr Sat 10 Apr Sat 17 Apr
EAST GRINSTEAD TOWN F.C. VS WICK
TEAM LINE UP EAST GRINSTEAD TOWN F.C. Harry Howes Curtis Gayler Nick D'Arienzo Alex Malins Nathan Cooper Charlie Harris Ollie Starkey Shay Leahy Dan Perry Tegan Freeman Kieron Pamment Mason Saunders Steve Smith Shea Cascoe Rogers Omar Folkes Joe Stone Max Marshall Rasheed Alaka Josh Mandrha Luke Leppard
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WICK Keelan Belcher Archie Short Callum Beck Ellis Collier Sam Conolly Jack Downie Ben Hauxwell Ethan Roberts Ryan Singers Aaron Tester Jordan Layton George Bingham Harry Williams Darryl Wollers Cavan Gratwick Tom Holland Danny Jordan James Thurgar Dennis Wooldridge Frankie Spiteri Preston Woolston Brendan Ebireir
NEXT HOME MATCH
MATCH OFFICIALS:
Hassocks
Referee: Ian Lane Assistant Ref: Tom Spicer Assistant Ref: Steve Gretton
Saturday 29 August 2026 3pm
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EAST GRINSTEAD TOWN
HISTORY PROGRAMMES FROM THE PAST BY LESTER MEDCALF I’m going to share with you a couple of programmes from the past for games played on more or less the same date as today’s 2026 game. We’ll start with East Grinstead v St Francis on Saturday 18 August 2012 in division one of the Sussex County League. Richard Tramontin starts his chairman’s notes with a welcome to St Francis but quickly tells us that “both teams have had disappointing starts to the new season...” though neither team had played that many games. We had played three league matches with one win and two defeats while St Francis had only played twice and hadn’t got any points as yet. Richard's notes also tell us about a very different football match that was due to take place in a couple of weeks here at East Court - the cast of the London productions of Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera would play each other with the takings being given to Macmillan Cancer Support. Both operas were expecting to include a “sprinkling of celebrities.” Team manager Simon Funnell talked in a little more detail about our current form - though he had a rather different explanation for the performance against Dorking Wanderers. “Preparations were not good for this game as the traffic from all directions into Dorking was terrible and we had players turning up in dribs and drabs.” The programme does have match reports for the Dorking game (we lost 1-0 with Dorking scoring after about 30 minutes) and also for an earlier home game against Horsham YMCA. We had drawn 1-1 against them with Horsham YMCA scoring after about 20 minutes and Mannie Neville equalising for us with about 10 minutes left. The programme’s league table had us in 15th place and St Francis 18th - 22 in the league - but still very early in the season. So how did the game go? After some 10 minutes - with St Francis having had much of the game - Marc Pelling scored for us with a typical towering header. Shortly afterwards we lost two players because of injuries, but just before half-time we scored again through Adam Davies. Early in the second half St Francis had a player sent off and then right at the end Luke Piscina made it 3-0 to us. The score rather flattered us.
CUP SUCCESS AGAINST VCD Next I’m going to write about the programme we produced for East Grinstead v VCD Athletic on Saturday 19 August 2017 in the preliminary round of the FA Cup. VCD were in the same Isthmian League division as ourselves. Programme editor Bruce Talbot writes briefly about our last Isthmian League match at home to Molesey and he says that “it was certainly an entertaining game, with both sides going for it. Quite how it only finished 1-1 after both teams had scored in the first nine minutes was something of a head-scratcher.” Marcus Elliott had scored for us but Molesey only needed a minute or two after Marcus’s goal to bring things level. The match report in our programme for the VCD match gives much credit to the two goalkeepers in the Molesey game, but in the very last minute one of the Molesey defenders had mistimed a tackle which brought down one of our players on the half-way line. There was then a confrontation involving many of the players which led to the Molesey defender being booked. Perhaps the ref should have been harder with his decision, but it was agreed that it had been an excellent game played in excellent spirit. We have an Isthmian league table in the programme, though teams had only played two games. We had one point (from the Molesey game I’ve already talked about) and we’d also been to Guernsey to lose 4-2 with Marcus Elliott scoring both of our goals. VCD were at the bottom of the 24-team standings and were having a tough time, two games and eight goals conceded. And none scored. Let’s now tell you what happened in the VCD FA Cup match. VCD made a better start than ourselves but we were to score the first goal after some 30 minutes with Dean Brown heading home. A couple of minutes later and Marcus Elliott made it 2-0 after a mistake by the VCD keeper. But just before half-time VCD scored. The next goal would be important and for some while VCD looked most likely to score it. But it was our Tariq Straker who scored the next goal about halfway through the second half to give us a 3-1 lead. There was still time for VCD to score again - but it turned out to be the last goal in the match as we hung on for a 3-2 win. And the next round of the FA Cup was to see us travelling to Margate.
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