Football

BOYS

1st XI Captains:

Johnny Lester & Jack Gould

Kingswood football teams have now firmly established themselves as teams to be reckoned with on the local circuit. The first team, coached by Mr Harding, played seven fixtures this year, winning one, drawing three and losing three, and the second team had their best season in living memory, playing six and winning five of those games. As well as playing opponents we have met before – Beechen Cliff, KES, Wycliffe, QEH and Dauntsey’s – we added Prior Park football team to the fixture list this year and had our first ever home and away fixture against this team.

For the first time in living memory, there was a Year 10 match played this year in which we came away with a commendable 1-1 draw against Beechen Cliff.

It is worth mentioning the Year 13 leavers who have proved to be stalwarts of the first team and played in every match: joint captains, Johnny Lester and Jack Gould (who also played first team when in Year 11), central defender Rex Evans, midfielder Rayan Roubaie and probably the player of the season, Ted Nightingale, our ever dependable goalkeeper. Caleb Bond and Haru Ishizaka also featured heavily in the second half of the season, in fact Haru ended up being joint highest scorer with Year 11 Jake Wilson, who we will sorely miss as he moves on. Notably, Jake was unavailable for the three matches we lost.

The second team, coached by Mr Gordon, were well led by Theo Gooding, and Edan Ledbury provided several important goals throughout the season, managing to score with most parts of his body! Zach Hale was crucial to the success of this team as were Max Gooding, Roman Kotciuba and James Eayres. With lots of talent coming through in Years 12 and 11, once again the future looks bright for football at Kingswood.

To see more photos and also some goals from the first team, Kingswood Football team can be followed on Instagram: kws_footballteam

GIRLS

The girls’ football activity has been a real success this year, with over 20 girls attending regularly. In May, we took two teams, consisting of girls from Year 8 to 10 to the U15 BANES festival which was their first competitive fixture.

It was a great competition that the girls enjoyed and we look forward to future fixtures in girls’ football.