BSMFC Vs Hinckley AFC by BugbrookeStMichaels

BADGERS WE ARE

TUESDAY 15TH OCTOBER 7:45 PM KICK

FOUNDED 1929

CLUB COMMITTEE CLUB COMMITTEE

PRESIDENT: WILLY MARRIOTT

CHAIRMAN: KEVIN GARDNER

VICE-CHAIRMAN: NIGEL THOMAS

CLUB SECRETARY: GRAHAM CONNEW

YOUTH SECRETARY: HAYLEY EVANS

FEMALE DEVELOPMENT OFFICER / SECRETARY: STEPH NASH

TREASURER: NICK INWOOD

FIXTURES SECRETARY: DAVE MELLOR

GROUNDSMAN: DANNY POWELL

WELFARE OFFICER: HELEN GILLIGAN

BAR & FACILITIES MANAGER: TYLER REEVE

COMMITTEE MEMBER: RICHARD GIBBON

COMMITTEE MEMBER: STUART WYKES

COMMITTEE MEMBER: RICHARD FAULKNER

COMMITTEE MEMBER: STEVE REEVE

COMMITTEE MEMBER: DALE WALTON

COMMITTEE MEMBER: JO THOMAS

MANAGEMENT/COACHING TEAM MANAGEMENT/COACHING TEAM

FIRST TEAM: SCOTT CARLIN

RESERVE TEAM: DAN POWELL

‘A’ TEAM: ASH FOX

LADIES TEAM: STUART WHITE

UNDER 18s GIRLS: JAMES GEDDES UNDER 18s (NYSL): DARREN SMITH

UNDER 16s: GAVIN DAVIS

UNDER 15s: RYAN NASH

UNDER 14s: CHRIS ASHTON

UNDER 13s BLACK: RICH FAULKNER

UNDER 13s WHITE: TONY HILL

UNDER 12s BLUES: IAN MARRIOTT UNDER 12s WHITE: MITCH HAINES

UNDER 12s WHITES GIRLS: STEPH NASH

UNDER 12s BLACKS GIRLS: ALAN THOMAS

UNDER 10s: ANDREW JACKMAN

UNDER 9s: DARREN WILLIX

UNDER 7s WHITE: IAN MARRIOTT

UNDER 7s BLACK: JASON

WELCOME TO FROM THE CHAIRMAN... FROM THE CHAIRMAN...

THE SETT

As Chairman of Bugbrooke St Michaels Football Club, I would like to offer you a warm welcome to The Sett and I hope that you have an enjoyable visit.

Here at Bugbrooke St Michaels we are working hard to develop a club with a strong inclusive ethos, offering opportunities for players of all ages and abilities.

We are extremely proud of our youth development programme, supporting players from seven all the way up to eighteen. Many of our young players go on to have success with one of our adult teams, with some players going on to even bigger and better things!

There is a great wealth of local support for the club, everyone that helps does so on a voluntary basis and through everyone’s hard work and dedication we have been able to achieve and maintain FA Accredited status.

Whilst some clubs choose to reinvest their revenue into players and wages, here at Bugbrooke we hold a different set of values. All of our profits go into upgrading our equipment and facilities, building a solid future-proof foundation that will be here for future generations to enjoy.

Whilst this can sometimes hold us back from gaining huge success on the pitch, we feel our excellent facilities, youth development programme and ethos on community sets us apart from other clubs.

Success and progression starts from the beginnings.

Thank you for your support today, we hope that you enjoy the game, and we look forward to seeing you again soon.

Kev

Kevin Gardner, Chairman

Bugbroooke St Michaels Football Club would like to place on record our thanks to our team of volunteers, our advertisers and sponsors.

FEMALE FOOTBALL

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I’m really proud that we’ve created a new U18 Girls team this season as part of the ongoing development of the female pathway here at the Sett. The reaction from everyone at the club has been incredibly supportive and myself, Bob (Assistant Coach), Zara (Physio), as well as the players and parents have all been impressed by the warm welcome we’ve received.

The girls play in the Beds FA Girls Football League and despite being a new team, we’ve challenged ourselves by going into Division 1. Our season started with a tough trip to Luton Town ending up on the wrong side of a 7 goal thriller,losing 4-3. The following week we hosted Chesham Utd for our first ever game at the Sett winning 2-1 and earning our first points of the season.

U17/U18 is a difficult age group for female footballers – there are lots of competing pressures including education and exams. The situation is made harder as lots of youth football clubs finish at U16 - players often have nowhere to go and many stop playing altogether. We’re delighted to be able to provide the girls with a new opportunity – players have joined us from as far afield as Corby and Dunstable – and although it’s still early days the squad is coming together really nicely.

Bugbrooke has a fantastic reputation for developing young players and we want to continue this on the female side. Our main aim this season is to be competitive in Div 1, however the U18s also provides a pathway into the Ladies Team and we hope to see some of our players stepping up through the season and playing at a higher level.

Finally, a huge thank you to everyone at the club who has helped us so far and of course to our new sponsors Compressed Air Technologies and Challenge-trg Recruitment.

James Geddes

James Geddes, U18's Girls Manager

OUR HISTORY BUGBROOKE ST MICHAELS FC

Formed in 1929, Bugbrooke St Michaels Football Club took over from Bugbrooke United who folded in 1928 after being in existence since 1910.

The club, which is named after the local St Michael’s and All Angels Church, initially took its place in the Northants Central Village League and had immense success, winning the league title from 1931 to 1937

The club closed for the Second World War before reforming in 1947 and were once again successful, winning the CVL title from 1947 to 1950, and were Northants Lower Junior Cup runners-up in 1949, a feat repeated in 1954.

We finally won the N F A Lower Junior Cup in 1956 and followed this in 1957 by winning the prestigious Daventry Charity Cup

The club had its most successful years from 1966 to 1972 when we won the Northants Central Combination Premier title and again from 1976 to 1979 with 1977 also seeing us win the N.F.A Lower Junior Cup again.

The club continued to succeed in the Northants Combination until 1987 when we took the decision to join the United Counties League.

At this time, we decided to run two teams in the U.C.L and two teams in the C.N.C. We also began our youth section and have continued this ever since. Today we run 4 adult sides, including a recently formed Ladies team as well as 15 youth teams.

The club has continued to enjoy success across all age groups over those 30 years, the most notable being N F A Junior Cup winners in 1992, N.F.A Lower Junior Cup in 1993, and U.C.L Division One winners in 2001.

The reputation for producing successful youth teams has increased over those years and 4 of our youth players (under 16) have been signed by professional league clubs

The achievements of the club on the field have always been supported by a hardworking committee whose chief officers are recorded on a roll in the clubhouse flyer They, along with the supporters of the club, have built up the excellent changing room sand clubhouse since 1980

We hope that you enjoy the facilities that they have provided over those years, and we look forward to seeing you again in the future

HINCKLEY AFC

Hinckley AFC is a community owned club that was established in January 2014, following the liquidation of Hinckley United. The club aims to promote football for all in the Hinckley and Bosworth community, and is built on a structure of one vote per member. The club is committed to investing its money into football at all ages in the community, with a constitutional promise not to take any profits out of the club.

The town of Hinckley has had a football team for many years, the earliest recorded team being Hinckley Town, who played in the Leicestershire Senior League in 1889. Following a name change to Hinckley Athletic, the club acquired land on Middlefield Lane, and in the mid-1990s they narrowly missed out on promotion to the Southern League on three occasions. Meanwhile, Hinckley Town were formed after changing their name from Westfield Wanderers in 1972, and they were promoted to the Southern League after a successful spell in the 1980s.

In the summer of 1997, the two chairmen, Kevin Downes (Town) and Mick Voce (Athletic) established that both sides had something positive to offer a merger. Thus, Hinckley Town and Hinckley Athletic became Hinckley United.

The intention of the merger was to create a higher standard of football in the town, something which was achieved when United won promotion to the Southern League Premier Division in 2001.

After finishing in 6th place in 2003/04, United were accepted into the newly formed Conference North. They moved into a new ground, on Leicester Road, in March 2005. After a successful start in 2006/07, tragedy struck when Matt Gadsby passed away while playing for the club at Harrogate Town on 9th September 2006. They went on to reach the play-off final, but lost out 4-3 to Farsley Celtic after conceding a last minute penalty.

Seasons of financial woe followed, and after being relegated from the Conference North in 2012/13, the club was liquidated six months later. After appointing Carl Abbott as their first manager, Hinckley AFC’s first match was on 5th July 2014, a 4-2 win against landlords Heather St John’s. Abbott led AFC to a third-place finish in the Midland League First Division in their inaugural season, including setting a new league record for matches unbeaten. They went 27 without defeat in all competitions from 21st October until 28th April, when they were defeated in the Leicestershire Senior Cup Final.

The on-field success continued into the start of the 2015/16 season, when they overturned a Redditch United side from three levels higher in the pyramid to reach the Second Qualifying Round of the FA Cup in their first campaign in the competition. That season, the club finished fifth in the league and won their first piece of silverware: going one better than the previous season by winning the Senior Cup with a 5-1 victory over Oakham United in the Final.

Continuing the theme of building on their success each season, 2016/17 yielded a new best league finish, with AFC ending as runners-up behind unbeaten champions Bromsgrove Sporting. Alongside that there were best ever runs in the FA Vase, where Abbott’s men reached the last 16 stage but were beaten in extra time by Buckland Athletic, and the Polymac Packaging League Cup, where they reached the final.

HINCKLEY AFC TODAY’S VISITORS

Abbott stepped down the following October, and the club had several managers for short spells between then and the present day – Dale Belford, Richard Lavery, James Jepson and John Ramshaw all with brief tenures before Dale’s son Courtney Hunter-Belford took charge in the summer to give renewed optimism after a disappointing campaign. Covid regulations prevented him being able to complete either of his first two seasons in charge, ahead of the club’s move to the United Counties League in 2021/22.

But there the club mirrored their second-placed finish of five years previously, setting numerous records along the way. They hit a new FA Vase record 18-0 win at St Martin's in the FA Vase and set a 13-match winning streak on their way to the play-off final. Ultimately, though, defeat to Belper United in the final meant another crack at step six and lateral movement back to the Midland League after just one season away. Hunter-Belford stepped down due to work commitments, with his assistant Joe Conneely taking charge, though the duo were re-united at the helm months later. They guided the side to a third-placed finish but suffered play-off defeat again, this time at the hands of Droitwich Spa on penalties in the semi-final. The club did, though, go one better in the Midland Football League Cup, winning the final, at Walsall's Bescot Stadium, by beating Premier Division Whitchurch Alport 2-0.

The 2023/24 season saw Hinckley remain in the Midland League and have the best start to a campaign since formation, staying in the top five and losing only two matches until January 2024. A run undefeated throughout March, including an important late win against nearest rivals Droitwich Spa, saw Hinckley win the Division One title, fittingly away at Heather St John's, on 6th April 2024 courtesy of an 82nd-minute winning goal by Chandler Pegg.

Now with Conneely back in sole charge, AFC were placed in the United Counties Premier Division South for the club’s first season at step five. The memory of Matt Gadsby lives on through his wife Sarah and daughter Amelia, who hold the membership Number One of Hinckley AFC.