Basford CFC

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A word from the man in the chair

What can I say about season 22/23 except for WOW.

In a blink and you will miss it May the club picked up 3 senior trophies across its 2 teams. The first team with League and County Cup double and the Reserves picking up the NSL Intermediate League Cup in what was an exciting month for us all.

It's not just the Senior section making waves, many of our junior and youth teams have been promoted after league victories, this should set them all a new challenge for this season and as the summer months moved on we saw many of the teams picking up tournament victories as they looked to prepare for the 23/24 season.

For this season we are delighted to announce our Ladies section are starting 2 new teams (1 senior and 1 junior), the Junior section introduced 2 new sides to the club and we have reintroduced the Vets back to the club after a season ot 2 without one. A fitting way to expand the club as we move into our 10th year.

Not too many changes with playing personnel for this season, but one to the Management Team, Danny Arnold was offered more responsibilities at Notts County and with their promotion back to the League it was an offer that could not be refused, this is a fantastic opportunity for Danny and he leaves with our thanks and our best wishes for the future.

We are delighted that Tris, Jordan and Louis have stayed with us for another season and our reserves management remain unchanged, that leads us to where we are now, Radford. At the end of the season the club decided that to move forward we need to have a facility that allows promotion to Step 6 football (the new facilities at Hickings Lane will not be completed until 2025) so the decision was made to ground share and after some very friendly and very short discussions Radford kindly offered us the opportunity to play at Selhurst St, one we are very grateful for.

Enjoy the game

Pete Scott. Chairman

Today’s Squads

Todays Match Sponsors

ManagementTeam

Tristram Whitman, Jordan Hunter

Louis Minney

ManagementTeam

Stapleford Town Football Club - Chapter 1

The gestation of Stapleford Town Football Club commenced at the turn of the millennium with the formation of Stapleford Villa FootballClubin2002.

The vision at the heart of Stapleford Villa’s football activities was the desire to provide and expand football facilities for youth and local residents of all ages with “Hickings Lane”, the clubs home ground, supplying a base where players’ love for the game of footballcouldberekindled,developedandexpanded.

After early successes the club declined due to a lack of professionalmanagementresources.

In 2012 a core group consisting of some members of the previous management team and a group of supporters from the community in Stapleford, including parents, young people, local businesses and football enthusiasts, came together to relaunch the Club now knownasStaplefordTownFC.

The management team of the relaunched Stapleford Town FC were determined that the Club be a grassroots community based club with an emphasis on providing a safe football facility that was welcoming to all; regardless of age, ability, personal or financial background meeting the criteria set out by the Football Association’s concept of the beautiful game “for anyone, anytime, anywhere”. Inotherwords:ForAll.

From the very beginning the Club has recognised that to be a true community based club our activities would require a wide remit and so has developed not just the game of football but also the social aspects of the Club drawing in the wider community through events such as community fun days, participation in national events (such as RBL Poppy Appeal) and local events suchasThe“HemlockHappening,”

Stapleford Town Football Club - Chapter 1

Since our inception in 2013 we have expanded our activities building fromthreetothirtytwoteamswith450registeredplayers.

To support the expansion of the Club and develop the potential of the players there are 50 FA registered coaches of which 31 are fully qualified and 12 are awaiting qualification through the Football AssociationCoachingscheme(currentlyatplaymakerstatus).

In2016theClubsuccessfullyappliedtoBroxtoweBoroughCouncilfor a Preferential UserAgreementfor football on the site at Hickings Lane Recreation Ground. Preferential User status provides the Club with priorityaccesstothefootballfacilitiesthroughoutthefootballseason.

Also In 2016, a decision was made to form our senior section and after discussions with Ryan Stark and Matt Moody, a team was entered for the 2017/18 season. Using their extensive knowledge of local football and the wealth of players who, although lived in Stapleford, played football outside of the town a team was formed. We also recruited rookie managerAdam ‘Lefty’Campbell and managed to successfully navigate our way to an NSL Div 1 title and Notts Junior Cup double in the first season. The following year we completed an astonishing back to back championship win lifting the Premier League atthefirstattempt.

The defence of the league title was curtailed by the Global Covid Pandemic and as restrictions eased the club regrouped and with a new management team of Tristram Whitman, Danny Arnold and Jordan Hunter who look to take the club forward,Ahealthy 2nd place finish in the 21/22 season demonstrated the club is both still competitive and also still developing players to come through, taking the club a step further in 22/23 winning the league title and county cup tocapamemorableseason.

Honours

Notts FATrophy 2022/2023 Champions

NSL2022/2023 Premier Division Champions.

NSLIntermediate Cup 2022/2023 Champions (Reserves)

NSLJunior Cup 2021/2022 Champions (Development Side)

NSL2018/2019 Premier Division Champions.

NSL2017/2018 Division 1 Champions

Notts FAJunior Cup 2017/2018 Champions

Rainbows Story and History

In 1989, Harry and Gail Moore’s five-year-old daughter, Laura, sadly died after a battle with Leukaemia. She had three years of treatment, including a bone marrow transplant from her twin brother, Kit.

Laura’s favourite thing in the world was a rainbow and her parents wanted to create something special in her memory – which is how Rainbows was born.

Today, we support over 300 babies, children and young people living with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions, here in the East Midlands.As our story continues, you can be part of the next chapter.

Rainbows mission

Our vision is to create the “Rainbows Experience” wherever you are. Our mission is that across the East Midlands we will:

● transform care for those babies, children and young people who have a life-limiting or life-threatening condition

● relieve the pain and symptoms associated with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions

● support every baby, child and young person to achieve their full potential

● create memories for families to treasure

● provide comfort and compassion at the time of and following the death of a baby, child or young person

Pete Scott (Chairman StaplefordTown) said,

"We are delighted to partner Rainbows and provide any support we can with their fantastic work, Rainbows is a great addition to our partner programme and we will be displaying the logo on our reserves shirts for the 23/24 season and beyond. We have already participated in a fundraising event at IlkestonTown Football club and look forward to helping organising more events in the future."

For more information see https://www.rainbows.co.uk/

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Basford CFC

History

Basford United was formed in 1900 at the Old PearTree Inn. They initially played in the Notts Combination, winning the league cup in 1903–04, before switching to the NottsAlliance in 1904.They won the league in their first season, and again in 1906–07 and 1919–20.The club were later relegated to DivisionTwo, which they won in 1929–30

During World War II the club played in the NottsAmateurAlliance, returning to the NottsAlliance after the war.The 1946–47 season saw them win the Notts Senior Cup.They were relegated to DivisionTwo in 1970–71, although they soon returned to the Senior Division.After finishing bottom of the table in 1981–82 they were relegated againThe 1984–85 season saw them finish as runners-up in Division One, earning promotion back to the Senior Division In 1987–88 they won the Notts Senior Cup again, beating HucknallTown in the final

After finishing second-from-bottom in 1991–92, Basford were relegated to Division One again However, a second-place finish in 1993–94 saw them promoted againThey were relegated again in 1995–96, and despite winning Division One in 1997–98, they were relegated back to the division after finishing bottom of the Senior Division the following seasonThey withdrew from the league (now replaced by the Notts Senior League) during the 2005–06 season However, they returned to the Senior Division the following seasonAfter finishing as runners-up in 2009–10 and 2010–11 Basford switched to the South Division of the Central Midlands League.

Basford won the division at the first attempt (and the league's Floodlit Trophy) earning promotion to the East Midlands Counties LeagueAfter a second successive title in 2012–13 (also becoming the first club to win both the league and the league cup), they were promoted to the Premier Division of the Northern Counties East League.They finished fifth in 2013–14, and were transferred to the Premier Division of the new Midland League for the 2014–15 season.They went on to win the inaugural league title, earning promotion to Division One South of the Northern Premier League as well as winning the Notts Senior Cup for a third time.A fourth-place finish in 2015–16 saw them qualify for the promotion play-offs, in which they lost 5–0 to CoalvilleTown in the semi-finals.The season also saw them retained the Notts Senior Cup.

In 2017–18 Basford were Division One South champions, earning promotion to the Premier Division.They also won the Notts Senior Cup, and retained it the following season.At the end of the 2021–22 season the club were transferred to the Premier Division Central of the Southern League.They were transferred back to the Northern Premier League's Premier Division a year later.

Ground

Shortly after their formation, the club began playing at the DollyTub pitch, which later became the Highbury housing estateThey moved to Catchems Corner in 1903, remaining there until moving to VernonAvenue in 1930. They subsequently moved to Mill Street, before GreenwichAvenue became their home ground in 1991 after Mill Street was used for housing.

RecentResultsFromNSLTeams

Local Roundup From 18/09/2023

In the UCLPremier, Kimberley Miners Welfare edged visiting HeanorTown 1-0, and AFC Mansfield were held to a 3-3 draw with visiting WisbechTown, HucknallTown meanwhile were on the end a six-goal thrashing when away to Deeping Rangers.

In Division One, Clipstone edged a local affair, 2-1, away to West Bridgford, whilst two games involving Notts clubs featured seven goals apiece; NewarkTown saw off visiting Selston 5-2, Elliot King with a brace for the victors and Dunkirk just edged hosts Blackstones.

Rainworth Miners Welfare and Southwell City shared six goals with Callum Brooks netting twice for the hosts, Radford were held to a 1-1 draw when away to Birstall United, and Gedling Miners Welfare saw the same against visiting Lutterworth Athletic, whilst SandiacreTown and CliftonAll Whites suffered defeats on the road.

The Central MidlandsAlliance Premier North saw victories for both SJR Worksop (2-0 atAFC Phoenix), and Retford Reserves (2-1 at home to Woodhouse Colts), whilst in the South,ArnoldTown and Linby Colliery Welfare shared the spoils in a 1-1 draw whilst there was defeats for Mansfield Hosiery Mills,Teversal, and Nottingham, the latter going down 6-1 away to Cromford & Wirksworth.

As for the Nottinghamshire Senior League, Collingham (28 pts) currently lead StaplefordTown (27) by a point with the second-placed side having a game in hand; Woodthorpe Park Rangers (18),Awsworth Villa (17) and Beeston (15) making up the top five following Saturday’s games.

Stapleford moved within touching distance of the leaders after they won 2-1 away to Aslockton & Orston, whilst two sides scored six apiece on the road, third place Woodthorpe won 6-2 at FC Sez, and Gresley Rovers Reserves edged an eleven-goal thriller when at Cotgrave.

Article provided by Peter Mann (Senior Correspondent) Nottingham Sport

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About our Hosts - Radford FC

Founded in 1964 as Manlove &Alliots FC and played in the Nottinghamshire Sunday league. Manlove &Alliots were a Engineering firm situated in Radford.After the firm transferred to Scotland in 1970/71, the club carried on under the name of Radford Olympic FC being sponsored byThe Pheasant Inn. In 1977 we became the first amateur side in Britain to be allowed to wear advertising on our shirts and the BBCTelevision came along to our home ground on Melbourne Park and filmed one of our matches and interviewed officials for the evening programme “Nationwide”. In 1978 we formed a ground development committee and decided to seek out a piece of ground preferably in the Radford area for development of our own ground. Radford Olympic transferred to Saturday Football and made progress up the leagues and in 1982/83 finished Champions of the East Midlands Regional League.

In 1983/84, we won the Central Midlands League Senior Cup. In 1987 Radford Olympic were renamed Radford F.C.At the end of 2002/03 we were promoted to the Supreme Division of the Central Midlands League and in our first season in the top flight we finished 11th.After holding our own during the seasons 2003/04 & 2004/05 in the top league of the Central Midlands League, the club delivered silverware in the season 2005/06 under the guidance of Julian Garmston and assistant Pete Kelley, winning the C.M.LPhoenixTrophies floodlight Cup and equally impressive was the equal fifth place finish in the C.M.LSupreme Division which in an extremely tough league. New floodlighting and 1st phase significant ground improvements were actioned. During season 2005/6 a seated stand was completed. Season 2008/09, was a big challenge for Radford F.C. as we moved up a level to the new Step 6 East Midlands Counties Football League.The following season we competed in the FACup for the first time. Several moderate seasons followed until 2014-2015 when the club finished third.Aleague runnersup place followed in 2015 – 2016. Silverware came to the club in 2017-2018 by way of winning the League Cup.

Anew era for the club began at the start of the 2021-2022 season with a sideways move to the United Counties League. Following an exciting season, the club qualified for the end of season play offs by finishing fourth. In the semi finals a slim defeat to Belper United meant they remained in Division One for a second season.

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