Leverstock Green Programme vs Ampthill Town

Welcome to Leverstock Green FC

Today we welcome Ampthill Town Players, Officials and Supporters to the LORDS Builders Merchants Stadium

For the ISUZU FA Vase 1st Qualifying Round. We hope you have an enjoyable afternoon with us.

We also welcome our match officials Referee Gary Ogden and his assistants Pasquale Acierno and Timothy Patis.

You are all welcome to use the clubs bar and tea bar before, halftime and after today’s game. You will be well look after by Sue and Michelle and our catering staff, Ioana and Nigel.

On the gate Keith, Steve and Laurence will give guidance for car parking and selling 50/50 tickets. The entrance fee us £8 and £4 for concessions and Under 12’s is free.

Our sponsor for today’s game is Derrick Williams from Kit Aid we thank Derrick and Kit Aid for sponsoring today’s league game.

Please use the car parking provided inside the ground, as this will avoid any unnecessary disruption to our neighbours. If you have left your car on ANY of the adjoining roads, please pop outside and bring your car in, the car parking is free.

Please follow any instructions or requests made by the club for your safety and enjoyment. The Club Management also reserves the right to refuse admission to the ground to, or to eject from the ground, any person who refuses to be searched by any steward, servant or agent of the Club or any Police officer.

The Club management accepts no responsibility for injury or loss of property.

Fixtures, results, and league tables are shown within the programme or visit our web site http://levgreenfc.co.uk Thank you for your co-operation.

ISUZU FA Vase 1st Qualifying Round

LEVERSTOCK GREEN

White/Green Shirts, Green Shorts & Socks

AMPTHILL TOWN

Yellow Shirts, Blue Shorts & Socks

AUSTIN BYFIELD (GK)

ROSS TOMPKINS

RIO BEACH EWAN CAWLEY

BRADLEY ROBISNON

MARK BUNKER

DAN WEEKS TOM BEASLEY

MICKEY HAVILL-TIERNEY

RYAN CARRUTHERS

MIKE DRAYCOTT

SAM BURKE

CALLUN NEAL WILL BARRETT

LUKE DURNIN

GEORGE MITCHELL-GEARS

LUKE BECKWITH

JOE SADLER

SAM HOLMES

KAZEEM GUTZMORE

LAWRENCE BURTON

JAKE LISSIEDUE

CHRIS BLUNDEN PHIL DRAYCOTT

NAT CONNOLLY

DREW ROBERTS

DAN PETT DAN WATSON

RYAN HENNESSEY

JAMES SHERIDAN

DANNY MAY JACK KENT

RADU-MIHAL STEFANOAICA

SONNY NEWBURY-BARR

MIKE FULLERTON

Manager: Fergus Moore

Assistant: Scott McGleish

Coach: Darren Bonfield

Coach: Ross Bargent

Physio: Cam Gaffeny

Manager: Chris Hardy

Assistant: Jack Capehorn

Assistant: Leon Gutzmore

Coach: John Rice

Physio :

Referee: Gary Ogden

Referee Assistants: Pasquale Acierno & Timothy Patis

Home Games at the Lords Builders Merchants Stadium

Leverstock Green are delighted to announce LORDS BUILDERS MERCHANTS will continue their club sponsorship into the 2023/24 season.

LORDS will be the club’s MAIN SPONSOR which includes the ground naming rights LORDS BUILDERS MERCHANTS STADIUM.

LORDS sponsorship will encompass branding all the First Team and Under 18 Playing Kits and the club Polo Shirts, Hoodies and Managers’ clothing. They will provide material to support projects undertaken by the club that will improve facilities for Players and Spectators.

Additional Pitch-side banners will be used to promote our Main Sponsor.

In addition, CONDELL BUILDING SUPPLIES are sponsoring our new Development team playing in the Herts Senior County League.

CONDELL sponsorship will encompass branding all the Development Team Playing Kit and Polo Shirts, Hoodies and Managers’ clothing.

Jamie Herd, Managing Director, Lords Group Trading, Merchanting Division:

“We are delighted to continue Lords’ relationship with Leverstock Green FC next season. It’s a fantastic local club, which we are proud to support, and watch thrive”.

Emma Smart, Leverstock Green FC Chairman:

“We are extremely happy that Lords have continued their sponsorship into the 23/24 season. Lords are a great company to work alongside, and we can’t wait to enter another season with them by our side. We cannot thank them all enough for their continued support and the relationships we are building. We look forward to seeing you all again next season. We also welcome Condell Building Supplies to our club.”

The FA Vase effectively replaced The FA Amateur Cup in 1974. In that year The FA Council had decided to abolish the official distinction between amateur and professional footballers, and this meant the end of The Amateur Cup and Amateur Internationals involving England.

In its first season 220 clubs entered, but they did not include those that had dominated in The Amateur Cup. Enfield, Hendon, Dagenham, Skelmersdale United and others at their level were immediately allocated to The FA Trophy. For the first time in history, small clubs – even village clubs – had the chance of playing in a national final at Wembley.

The first Vase finalists were Hoddesdon Town from the Spartan League and Epsom & Ewell from the Surrey Senior League. The Hertfordshire side edged home 2-1 before a crowd of 9,000. Even a competition as democratic as The Vase had its elite clubs in the early years. Billericay Town, initially of the Essex Senior League, won it three times in four seasons. Halesowen Town, then in the West Midlands Regional League, appeared in three Finals and were successful in two. They even beat a Southall side that had a young Les Ferdinand leading the attack.

Until the new Wembley opened in 2007 the record attendance for a Vase Final was the 26,489 who saw the drawn 1989 Final between Sudbury Town and Tamworth at the old Wembley. Tamworth won the replay 3-0 at Peterborough and Ian Moores, a former Division One player with Tottenham Hotspur, scored one of the goals.

The 2013-14 Vase competition was the 40th in history. Wembley had hosted 34 Finals, Villa Park and St Andrews two each, Upton Park and White Hart Lane one each. Thirty-two different clubs have got their hands on The Vase, donated by former FA Councillor Frank Adams. Whitley Bay lead the way with four wins.

Aficionados of The Vase competition tend to rate the 1992 Final between Wimborne Town and Guiseley as the best so far. Wessex League Wimborne had a modest record in the competition before then, having never ventured beyond the third round, but they embarked on a spectacular journey that took them all the way from the first round to the Final. A goal down after 14 minutes at Wembley, the Dorset side fought back to win 5-3.

When The Vase Final returned to Wembley, a record 36,232 fans saw Truro City beat AFC Totton 3-1. Whitley Bay, the 2002 winners, achieved a sensational hat-trick of Final victories from 2009 to 2011.

The Northern League’s dominance continued for two more seasons, with success for Dunston UTS and Spennymoor Town before Sholing, then Wessex League champions, got their name engraved. North Shields then came from behind to win the first Final to go to extra time since 2001-02.

In 2015-16 Wembley Stadium staged the first Non-League Finals Day, which saw both the Vase and the Trophy decided back-to-back in front of almost 47,000 fans. Morpeth Town came from behind to stun Hereford 4-1 with 45-year-old Chris Swailes on the scoresheet to win the Vase with a third different club.

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A few words about KitAid

KitAid is a charity set up by, Derrick Williams MBE, who visited Tanzania on a WaterAid supporters’ trip in 1998. Derrick, being a mad footie fan, was amazed at the reception he received from children and adults in remote villages just because he was we aring one of his favourite football shirts (he follows Watford, Liverpool and Chesham Utd).

After two weeks in Tanzania, a flame was lit in Derrick’s heart, and he was on a mission to provide kit and equipment to the bare-footed children playing with footballs made of tied string and plastic bags. Twenty-one years on, KitAid has lots of volunteers and to date we’ve sent out 900,000+ kits to children and adults in 55 different countries across the world.

How to donate

If you’d like to support the KitAid cause, the easiest way to donate your unwanted football kit, in order for us to find it a new home.

Alternatively, if you don’t have any unwanted kit, but would still like to support us, we’re very grateful for any donations which will help to fund our annual costs as well as support other partnership charities where possible.

We thank you for all your support.

In working in some of the most under-privileged countries around the world, The Football Association is no stranger to seeing the impact the donation of something as simple as a shirt or a pair of shorts can make. KitAid has brought an enormous amount of pleasure and enjoyment to young and old alike through the gift of football kit and has shared the spirit of British clubs and the England team with communities in all corners of the globe. We are proud to be associated with KitAid and wish them all the best in their endeavours for the years to come.

Jane Bateman, Head of International Relations, The Football Association

Leverstock Green FC

Club Information

Officers

President – Jamie Herd

Chairman – Emma Smart

Vice Chairman – Tony Smart

General Club Secretary – Dean Bradford

Football Secretary – Alan Lee

Treasurer – Tony Smart

General Officer – William Dawes

General Committee

Keith Pym, Alan Brett, Scott Isaacs, Pete Jerram, Steve Ypey, Roger Lipscombe, Garry Harvey, Gemma Williams, Stephen Fletcher, Laurence Fitzgerald, Steven Smart

Match Day Secretary 1st Team & Development - Alan Lee

Match Day Secretary SCFYL Under 18 – Alan Lee

Membership: Dean Bradford

Clubhouse Manager – Tony Smart

Club Welfare Officer/Charter Standard – Scott Isaacs

Functions & Sponsorship – Gemma Williams

Media Officer/Website – Alan Lee

Photographer/Facebook – Stephan Fletcher

Programme Editor – Tony Smart

Veo – Garry Harvey

Accountants – Coyle & Co

Honorary Life Vi ce - Presidents

Mr. J Baldry, Mr. B Barter, Mr. C Bull,

Mr. W Dawes, Mr. J Doble, Mr. S Robinson,

Mr. R Saville, Mr. A Smart, Mr. P Taylor, Mr. J Williams, Mr. M Goodson, Mr. .J Lawes

Web: http://levgreenfc.co.uk

Twitter: @levgreenfc

Facebook: @Leverstock Green F.C.

Ampthill Town History

Ampthill Town are one of the oldest clubs in Bedfordshire and date back to the 1880s. They joined the South Midlands in 1951 after playing in the Beds. league and were placed in the Premier Division which they won in 1960 and were runners up a year later.

After finishing bottom of the Premier Division in 1965 the club went to Division 2 of the United Counties League. They were promoted to Division 1 in 1970 despite finishing sixth. In 1991 they returned to the South Midlands and joined Division 1.

After a sequence of ups and downs they stayed in the Senior Division from 2001 to 2011 when they were promoted as runners up. After finishing fifth in2013 they went to the Premier and were runners up in 2014 when they also reached the FA Vase last eight. But the club ended up bottom in the next year and were demoted back to the Division 1.

The club have consolidated in recent years and two years ago they reached the play offs only to lose at home to Whitworths That year they reached the last eight of the Challenge Trophy before losing to Stotfold.

Last year they had a good run in the league but finished just outside the play off places due to number of draws. The Amps won 6-0 at The 61 Fc in the Beds. Senior Trophy before losing to Totternhoe and they lost at Holmer Green in the last four of the Div 1 cup after putting 7 pa st Winslow. British Airways FC sent their Vase hopes sky high with an early Vase exit.

Lee Hawkes stepped aside as manager and has been replaced by Chris Harvey from Totternhoe. He has brought most of his backroom staff and a handful of ex Totts players have made the move although many of last year’s Amps have remained including top scorer Sam Holmes and keeper Ross Taylor. Ampthill Town's best run in the Vase was in 2014 when they reached the last eight but lost at Eastbourne. Before last year's exit British Airways, they went out at home to Norwich CBS 2 years ago.

The Amps finished 6th last year when they dropped points in the final weeks with too many draws which cost them, they opened the term putting six past Thame United reserves and later won 6-3 at Wellingborough Whitworths and scored more goals away than at home. Ampthill began this term with a win at Irchester but have since had three 2-2 home draws.

First Team Results & Fixtures

GOAL SCORERS

First Team Appearances & Goal Scorers

Alan Lee Reporting FC Romania 4 Leverstock Green 1

Leverstock Green FC’s unbeaten start to the season came to an abrupt halt on Wednesday night as they were beaten 4-1 at FC Romania in their third SSML Premier Division fixture of the season. It was a deserved win for the home side, who took advantage of a couple of mistakes to hold a three-goal lead at the break, and never looked like relinquishing the game in the second half.

Leverstock Green FC made a good start to the game and went close with just a minute played when Callum Neal headed a free kick back across goal to Radu-Mihai Stefanoaica, whose stabbed shot was deflected wide for a corner. In the 13th minute Luke Beckwith had a run at goal before hitting a shot over the bar.

Two minutes later Leverstock were defending in their own box, and the ball was given away to Malik Nosik, who controlled it before hitting a bullet of a shot from the edge of the box into the top corner of the net, which gave Loris Marcimain no chance.

Leverstock were denied an equaliser in the 28th minute by a great save from home keeper Elgi Fejzo, who dived full-length to his right to turn away a Chris Blunden free kick. On 37 minutes another mistake was punished as the ball was given away near the halfway line and the home side broke quickly. Alie Bangura outpaced Brad Robinson down the left touchline and put over a cross which was finished from close range by Tobi Coker.

Leverstock’s task was made even harder in the last minute of the half when Coker scored his second with another tremendous shot from distance which again left Marcimain standing as it flew into the net.

Things could have got worse in the opening seconds of the second half as FC Romania attacked straight from the kick-off and looked to have a good shout for a penalty, but the referee turned down their appeals. Leverstock pushed forward promisingly a few times during the half, but the home side were still well in control, and Marcimain made a couple of great saves to deny Coker a hat-trick. There was a glimmer of hope for Leverstock Green FC seven minutes from time when substitute Connor McGinty cleared the ball from his own half and found Stefanoaica on the halfway line. Stefanoaica took the ball past Fejzo, who had come way out of his area, and ran on to calmly slot into the empty net to reduce the arrears to 3-1. Stefanoaica went close again in stoppage time with a shot across goal which went just wide. However, the home side’s three-goal lead was restored when Zenon Stylianides was put through to slot past Marcimain for their fourth goal, and it was the last kick of the game as the referee blew for time as soon as the ball hit the net.

Leverstock Green FC will have to pick themselves up quickly as they face a difficult FA Cup tie on Saturday away to Isthmian League North Division side Walthamstow.

Leverstock Green FC (0) 1 (Stefanoaica 83)

1. Loris Marcimain, 2. Brad Robinson (15. Danny May 75 mins), 3. Rio Beach, 4. Callum Neal, 5. Dan Weeks, 6. Nat Connolly (17. Freddie Newing 84 mins), 7. Luke Beckwith, 8. Dan Pett, 9. Chris Blunden (12. Toby Head 71 mins), 10. George Mitchell-Gears (16. Connor McGinty 78 mins), 11. Radu-Mihai Stefanoaica. Sub not used: 14. Ryan Hennessy.

Spartan South Midlands Premier Division Table 19th August 2023

Spartan South Midlands Premier Division Results

Saturday 12th August

Tuesday 15th August

Saturday 19th August

Spartan South Midlands Premier Division Fixtures

Saturday 26th August

FAV Buckingham FC Aylesbury Vale Dynamos

FAV Crawley Green Moulton

FAV Desborough Town Arlesey Town

FAV FC Romania Buckhurst Hill

FAV Holmer Green Milton Keynes Irish

FAV Letchworth Garden City Eagles Sawbridgeworth Town

FAV Leverstock Green Ampthill Town

FAV Little Oakley Cockfosters

FAV Potton United Barking

FAV Real Bedford Rothwell Corinthians

FAV Stansted Hadleigh United

FAV White Ensign Colney Heath

PREM Baldock Town London Lions

PREM St Panteleimon Harpenden Town

PREM Tring Athletic Biggleswade United

Tuesday 29th August

PREM Arlesey Town Real Bedford

PREM Aylesbury Vale Dynamos Crawley Green

PREM Biggleswade United Shefford Town & Campton

PREM Dunstable Town Colney Heath

PREM Leverstock Green Harpenden Town

PREM Milton Keynes Irish Tring Athletic

PREM Potton United Baldock Town

PREM Sawbridgeworth Town Cockfosters

Wednesday 30th August

PREM FC Romania Stansted

PREM London Lions St Panteleimon

Development and U18 Teams

The under-18s exited the FA Youth Cup at the first hurdle on Wednesday night, as Oxhey Jets came out on top 4-1 in the Extra Preliminary Round tie played at the Boundary Stadium.

Report by SCFYL Press Secretary Brian Barter

The under-18s exited the FA Youth Cup at the first hurdle on Wednesday night, as Oxhey Jets came out on top 4-1 in the Extra Preliminary Round tie played at the Boundary Stadium.

Report by SCFYL Press Secretary Brian Barter

Leverstock were offered the first chance 15 minutes in when they were awarded a spot kick. The Oxhey keeper saved the kick and LG were then awarded a corner kick which found the net. The assistant pointing towards the centre spot was then approached by the Referee and after consultation ruled out the goal for offside. Oxhey continued to push forward and took the lead. In first half time added on Leverstock were awarded a free kick which was blasted home to bring the scores level. Still in time added on Oxhey went back in front to go into the break with a 2 -1 lead. Shortly into the second period Oxhey were awarded a penalty to increase their lead. The home side found the net again bringing the score to 4-1 and secure their passage to the next round where they will entertain Hilltop.

Leverstock were offered the first chance 15 minutes in when they were awarded a spot kick. The Oxhey keeper saved the kick and LG were then awarded a corner kick which found the net. The assistant pointing towards the centre spot was then approached by the Referee and after consultation ruled out the goal for offside. Oxhey continued to push forward and took the lead. In first half time added on Leverstock were awarded a free kick which was blasted home to bring the scores level. Still in time added on Oxhey went back in front to go into the break with a 2 -1 lead. Shortly into the second period Oxhey were awarded a penalty to increase their lead. The home side found the net again bringing the score to 4-1 and secure their passage to the next round where they will entertain Hilltop.

Development Team

Leverstock Green Development were beaten 3-0 at home by Chipperfield Corinthians in Tuesday 15th August in the Herts Senior County League Premier Division game.

Leverstock Green Development are still looking for their first point of the season after a 3 -0 home defeat to Everett Rovers in their second Herts Senior County League Premier Division fixture on Tuesday 8th August.

Leverstock Green Development’s tough start to life in the Herts Senior County League continued as they suffered their fourth defeat from four games. Goals from Ryan Hennessy and Shay Kelly were not enough to prevent a 4-2 home defeat to Hinton on Saturday 19th August.

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19th August

Herts Senior County League Premier Division Results

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Photos from the FA Cup vs Walthamstow

Alan Lee Reporting

Walthamstow 3 Leverstock Green 1

Leverstock Green’s run in the Emirates FA Cup ended at the Preliminary Round stage, but they put up a very good display against Isthmian League side Walthamstow in front of an attendance of 415 at Wadham Lodge. It was two mistakes late on which cost Leverstock their chance of progressing further in the competition.

It was Leverstock who had the game’s first chance in the 6th minute as a shot from Radu-Mihai Stefanoaica brought a diving save out of home keeper Matt Nolan. Leverstock had goalkeeper Austin Byfield back in the side after his return from holiday, and Byfield confidently plucked a few crosses out of the air in the early stages. In the 15th minute Walthamstow went close when Carl Mensah got his head to a cross but with not a strong enough touch to divert it into the net.

The home side went in front in the 24th minute. Jared Small beat Mikey Havill-Tierney on the left and got to the bye-line, where he pulled back a cross for big striker Duncan Culley to shoot home the opening goal.

Leverstock kept pushing forward, and in the 34th minute there was a promising moment when Stefanoaica was running at goal with Chris Blunden shouting for a pass, but the pass never came, and the chance was gone. A minute later Blunden had a golden opportunity to equalise when a chipped cross from Havill-Tierney found him all alone in front of goal with only the keeper to beat .Assuming he was offside, Blunden hit his shot straight at the keeper, however the assistant’s flag stayed down, and it was a chance missed.

A minute before half time Byfield pulled off a superb save to tip a shot from George Ironton over the bar, and in stoppage time saved a shot on the run from Damaray Anyadike. Between those efforts Rio Beach had a decent attempt for Leverstock with a shot from distance that went wide. The second half started with Leverstock very much on the front foot, and in the 54th minute they got a deserved equaliser. Luke Beckwith sent over a cross from the left touchline to the far post, where Stefanoaica headed it back across goal, finding Dan Pett to volley home the equaliser from six yards out.

Leverstock lost Stefanoaica to injury in the 67th minute, being replaced by Lewis Collins. It was Collins who had the chance to put Leverstock into the lead in the 74th minute when he was through on goal, but his shot went agonisingly wide. That proved crucial, as within seconds Walthamstow were at the other end. Nolan’s long goal kick was not dealt with by Dan Weeks, and substitute Jordan Watson nipped in to steal the ball and shoot past Byfield for a 2-1 lead.

Leverstock continued to push for an equaliser, and Collins made a great effort to get on the end of a through pass from Pett in the 86th minute, but the defender came out on top. The killer blow followed two minutes later. An attempted clearance from Byfield cannoned off the nearby Watson, and as the ball rebounded back towards goal it was a race as to which of the two would get to it first, and it was Watson who got there to slot the ball into the empty net for his second and Walthamstow’s third goal.

Leverstock continue with cup action next Saturday when they host Ampthill Town in the first qualifying round of the FA Vase.

Walthamstow (1) 3 (Culley 24, Watson 75, 88)

1. Matt Nolan, 2. Jared Small, 3. Tamas Amgbaduba (14. Jay Rolfe 58 mins), 4. Sharn Quinn (12. Jordan Watson 52 mins), 5. Carl Mensah, 6. Jardell Stirling, 7. Damaray Anyadike, 8. Kieran Turner

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VICE PRESIDENTS CLUB

2023-24

Leverstock Green Football Club would like to thank the Vice Presidents for their help and assistance pledged for last season.

Colin Bull, Peter Dennis, Jim Doble, Peter Frasier, Roger Stokes

As in previous seasons the donations made by our Vice Presidents have assisted us in providing many improvements. Would you like to join, £25 will secure your place.

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Tony Smart, Alan Lee, Keith Pym Colin Bull and Bill Dawes

The Gold Members Club is for those who given significant donations to the club.

Leverstock Green FC would like to thank the above which allows the club to have additional resources for their use.