Leverstock Green FC Programme vs Dunstable Town

Gladwish Challenge Trophy Round 2 Dunstable Town Tuesday 6th February 2024 Kick Off 7:45 pm Vs LORDS Builders Merchants Stadium

Admission £8 Concessions £4 Under 12’s Free Match Sponsor Steve Ypey

Welcome to Leverstock Green FC Today we welcome Dunstable Town Players, Officials and Supporters to the LORDS Builders Merchants Stadium We also welcome our match officials Referee Patrick Hanlon and his assistants, Marcus Baxter and Nigel Hickes.

We hope you have an enjoyable evening with us.

The Gladwish Challenge Trophy match will go to kicks from the penalty sport if the scores are level after 90 minutes.

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 Steve, Tony and Peter 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 Steve Ypey. We thank Steve, our club Secretary for sponsoring today’s cup game.

The FA are targeting discrimination in football, see the next page in this programme, which includes racism which in the news recently.

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.

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.

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.

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We provide a range of integrated services, which together form a pathway to support people towards an independent future.

Day Centre – A community-based setting, providing expert advice, where anyone is welcome to drop in, have a shower, a hot meal, some clean clothes, as well as some friendly company.

Outreach – Working with local rough sleepers to build trust and offer access to any services needed – with a focus on bringing people into safe and stable accommodation.

The Elms – A 44-bed hostel providing emergency and short-term accommodation to single, homeless adults.

Crash Pad – Emergency overnight accommodation offered to people when we are unable to accommodate them immediately at The Elms.

Move On – Providing support for The Elms residents into more independent living in shared accommodation.

Resettlement – Supporting clients moving from The Elms or Move On into council, social housing, or private rental.

Foodbank – Providing emergency food parcels and household provisions to local individuals and families.

In the Community – Supporting people in the community during this cost-of-living crisis and helping reduce the need to visit our Foodbank.

Social Enterprises – Developing employability skills and self-confidence in a supportive environment, while also raising income.

Craig Ringsell Sports Pitches & Garden Services!

Trading since 2008. Specialist in winter and summer sports pitches and schools sites.

Groundsman to Chesham Utd Fc, Dr Challoners Boys, Chesham Grammar and cover 18 cricket club in Herts, Beds and Bucks.

Also do consultancy for a number of local football clubs Leverstock Green, Leighton Town and Amersham Town.

Maintenance to general gardens cover mowing , weeding, hedge cutting and lawn treatments.

Mantis Cranes specialise in the hire and sale of self-erecting tower cranes, flat-top tower cranes, luffing tower cranes and construction hoists. We also offer an extensive range of crane accessories.

We are a family-run company that has been operating in UK and Ireland for more than 20 years.

We provide cost-effective lifting solutions for construction projects. Our established bases in UK and Ireland allow us to truly offer a nationwide service. https://www.mantiscranesgroup.com https://youtu.be/eY8JEvmZvS0

The Management Teams First Team Fergus Moore – Manager Scott McGleish – Assistant Manager

Ross Bargent, Darren Bonfield, Aaron Eales Coach GK Coach Coach

Development Team

Andy Murray – Manager Steve Newing – Coach Mark McGinty- Coach Under 18’s Aaron McIntosh – Manager Dan Renton – Joint Manager

Dan Sadler – Coach

Club Physio Dan Homer

Gladwish Challenge Trophy Round 2 6th February 2024 Green Shirts, Green Shorts & Socks

Blue Shirts, Blue Shorts & Socks

JOSH BOWLER (GK)

CONNOR COULSON

RIO BEACH

DYLAN BAKER

BRADLEY ROBISNON

HARRY BEAUMONT

DAN WEEKS

KYLE DAVISON-GORDON

MICKEY HAVILL-TIERNEY

ETHAN CREARY

RYAN CARRUTHERS

ISAAC OLALEYE

CALLUM NEAL

RUAIRI MILLS

ADEMIDE BARUWA

LUKE DUNSTAN

GEORGE MITCHELL-GEARS

ALFIE OSBORNE

LUKE BECKWITH

BENI CRILLY

ETHAN MOONEY

JOE SELLERS-WEST

DANNY MAY

KELVIN OSEI-ADDO

NAT CONNOLLY

TOLU IKUTINMINU

DAN PETT

SEAN EMMANUEL

RAWN SEALE

DANNY WEBB

PAUL MARKS

NIMI AJI

RADU-MIHAL STEFANOAICA

JOE REYNOLDS

JOE SADLER

LUKE WILLIAMS

LEWIS COLLINS

SAM SCOTT

Manager: Fergus Moore Assistant: Scott McGleish GK Coach: Darren Bonfield Coach: Ross Bargent Coach: Aaron Eales Physio: Dan Homer

Manager: Joe Deeney Assistant: Kyle Duncan Coach: Anthony Christophi Coach Jamie Nicholls Physio: Adam Ashton

Referee: Patrick Hanlon Referee Assistants: Marcus Baxter and Nigel Hickes

https://kitaid.net 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 wearing 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 President – Jamie Herd Chairman – Emma Smart Vice Chairman – Tony Smart General Club Secretary – Steve Ypey 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 - Alan Lee Membership: Steve Ypey Clubhouse Manager – Tony Smart Club Welfare Officer/Charter Standard – Scott Isaacs Functions & Sponsorship – Gemma Williams Groundsman & Team – Bill Dawes Roger Lipscombe, Peter Jerram & Alan Brett Media Officer/Website – Alan Lee Photographer/Facebook – Stephan Fletcher Programme Editor – Tony Smart Veo – Garry Harvey & Laurence Fitzgerald Accountants – Coyle & Co Honorary Life Vice-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.

Dunstable Town FC History

Dunstable Town FC are now in their 140th year. A former home to George Best, Jeff Astle, Kerry Dixon, and more recently, Peter Kioso, the Club can boast a rich heritage, a proud past and nowadays the honour of being only the 46th club in the UK to be a completely fan owned club run by its fans as a Community Benefit Society (CBS) The purpose of the Club is no longer just to play football but to be a force for good in our local communities.

The Club is a legal entity & is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and supported as a CBS by the Football Supporters’ Association.

The Club now operates as a social enterprise. Between Monday and Friday, we run seven different groups for people in our local community who want to improve their levels of fitness, increase their social support networks, and enjoy a safe space while in recovery from mental ill-health. All our groups are free to join and participate in.

The Club is now in its sixth year of supporting the work of Mind BLMK (Beds, Luton & Milton Keynes) as well as becoming part of the CALM Collective (Campaign Against Living Miserably) The Club has a specialist Mental Health Advocate who works with local mental health services and charities.

The move to become a CBS was necessary to ensure the Club survived. The financial effects of Covid saw the Club’s income halved and the difficult decision taken to fold the U23’s Development Team at the end of the 2019 – 20 season.

With no matchday income from the bar or food sales and no clubhouse to hire out, the Club relies almost totally on gate receipts, sponsorship, fundraising and prize money for its income.

The running of the Club was passed to the fans in 2017 after the wholesale departure of the Board, coaching staff, and all but two of the players. A consortium of three local businessmen offered to save the Club, but on condition they would seek voluntary relegation from the Premier Division of the Southern League.

A group of 15 fans took over the running of the Club in order to keep it in the Premier Division of the Southern League and despite successive relegations the model of being a members’ run Club proved sufficiently popular for the decision to become a CBS to be backed unanimously by the fans.

Fans now have the opportunity to become owners of the Club & buy a single share in the Club and receive exclusive discounts with local traders under the Blue Card scheme.

This model of Fan Ownership ensures that the Club will always stay in the hands of its supporters and cannot be taken over by one single investor determined to ride the non-league financial rollercoaster.

The Club now has over 330 individual owners who elect the Club’s Directors and vote on important Club policy decisions.

The Club appointed Joe Deeney as Head Coach in early October 2021. Joe had managed at Step 2 with Hemel Hempstead Town FC and had been Asst Manager at Oxford City. He brought with him an experienced back-room team including Kyle Durcan as his number 2.

In his first season Joe took the Club from the bottom of the table to a respectable 9th position and last season guided us to a 4th place finish, narrowly missing out on the play-offs by just two points.

Attendances have risen steadily with last season’s average attendance of 207 being the second highest in the League.

The Club is ambitious and wants to play at the highest level of football it is prudent and sustainable to do so.

The Club now has individual owners in many different countries and welcomes supporters of many different clubs who just want to support our community improvement programme, Improving the Lives of Others.

For more information, please visit www.dunstabletownfc.co.uk/membership

First Team Results 2023 Date

Venue

Opponents

Score

Goalscorers

22-Jul

HFACS

Home

Tring Athletic

2-4

Lost

Blunden 2

01-Aug

SSML

Away

St Panteleimon

2-0

Won

Stefanoaica, Pett

05-Aug

FAC

Home

White Ensign

5-3

Won

Blunden 3, Stefanoaica 2

12-Aug

SSML

Home

Stansted

4-0

Won

Michell- Gears 2, Blunden, Beckwith

16-Aug

SSML

Away

FC Romania

1-4

Lost

Stefanoaica

19-Aug

FAC

Away

Walthamstow

1-3

Lost

Pett

26-Aug

FAV

Home

Ampthill

3-2

Won

Edwards 2, Newman

29-Aug

SSML

Home

Harpenden Town

2-0

Won

Beckwith, Stefanoaica

02-Sep

SSML

Home

Dunstable Town

1-4

Lost

Stefanoaica

09-Sep

SSML

Away

Shefford Town & Campton

3-1

Won

Radu 2, Pett

16-Sep

SSML

Away

Potton Utd

1- 4

Lost

Blunden

23-Sep

FAV

Away

Crawley Green

0-3

Lost

30-Sep

SSML

Home

Baldock Town

5-1

Won

Mitchell-Gears 2, Beckwith, Seale, Mooney

02-Oct

HFASC

Away

Hitchin

1 - 1*

Lost

Beckwith

07-Oct

SSML

Away

Cockfosters

2-5

Lost

Stefanoaica, Mitchell-Gears

10-Oct

SSML

Home

St Panteleimon

0-0

Draw

14-Oct

SSML

Home

Sawbridgeworth Town

3-1

Won

Mooney, Newman, Collins

17-Oct

SSML

Home

Aylesbury Vale Dynamos

3-2

Won

Neal, Stefanoaica, Beckwith

21-Oct

SSML

Away

Biggleswade Utd

2-1

Won

Neal, Sadler

25-Oct

SSML

Away

London Lions

4-3

Won

Newman, Stefanoacia, Beach, Grout

28-Oct

SSML

Away

Colney Heath

1-0

Won

Pett

31-Oct

PDC

Home

London Lions

0-3

Lost

04-Nov

SSML

Away

Harpenden Town

1-3

Lost

Newman

11-Nov

GCT

Home

Northampton Sileby R.

3-0

Won

Beckwith, Stefanoaica, Mitchell-Gears

18-Nov

SSML

Away

Milton Keynes Irish

2-2

Draw

Stefanoacia 2

25-Nov

SSML

Home

FC Romania

3-2

Won

Beckwith, Beach, Mitchell-Gears

02-Dec

SSML

Home

Potton Utd

1-1

Draw

Pett

16-Dec

SSML

Away

Sawbridgeworth Town

3-1

Won

Stefanoacia 2, Pett

23-Dec

SSML

Home

Colney Heath

1-4

Lost

Stefanoaica

First Team Results & Fixtures Date

Venue

Opponents

Score

Goalscorers

09-Jan

SSML Home

Biggleswade Utd

6-0

Won

Stefanoaica, Neal 2, Beckwith, Seale, Newman

13-Jan

SSML Away

Arlesey Town

2-1

Won

Pett, Beckwith

27-Jan

SSML Home

London Lions

1-1

Draw Collins

30-Jan

SMC

Bovingdon

3-0

Won

Newman, Seale, Mooney

03-Feb

SSML Home

Real Bedford

2-1

Won

Stefanoaica, Beckwith

06-Feb

SSML Home

Dunstable Town

10-Feb

SSML Away

Aylesbury Vale Dynamos

13-Feb

SSML Home

Milton Keynes Irish

17-Feb

SSML Home

Crawley Green

20-Feb

SSML Home

Arlesey Town

02-Mar

SSML Away

Baldock Town

12-Mar

SSML Home

Tring Athletic

16-Mar

SSML Away

Real Bedford

23-Mar

SSML Home

Cockfosters

26-Mar

SSML Away

Tring Athletic

30-Mar

SSML Away

Crawley Green

06-Apr

SSML Away

Dunstable Town

13-Apr

SSML Away

Stansted

20-Apr

SSML Home

Shefford Town & Campton

Home

First Team Appearances Player SSML Rio Beach 25 Luke Beckwith 23 Nat Connolly 25 Dan Pett 22 Radu Stefanoaica 22 Ryan Carruthers 20 Callum Neal 20 Dan Weeks 20 Mickey Havill-Tierney 17 Ethan Mooney 17 Josh Bowler 18 Jayden Newman 15 Danny May 13 Lewis Collins 13 George Mitchell-Gears 12 Ademide Baruwa 12 Rawn Seale 12 Joe Sadler 6 Bradley Robinson 8 Chris Blunden 7 Paul Marks 8 Luke Durnin 6 Austin Byfield 4 Connor McGinty 3 Morgan Grout 3 Loris Marcimain 3 Ryan Hennessy 2 Callum Moore 2 Scott McGleish 1 Shehzad Anwar 1

PDC 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0

GCT 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

StM 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0

HSC 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0

HCS 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

FA Cup 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

FA Vase 2 2 1 2 0 2 0 1 1 2 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1

Total 33 32 31 30 27 27 26 25 25 23 22 19 19 18 16 16 14 12 11 11 9 8 7 4 4 3 3 3 3 2

First Team Goal Scorers Player

SSML

PDC

GCT

StM

HSC

HCS

Radu Stefanoaica Luke Beckwith George Michell-Gears Dan Pett Chris Blunden Jayden Newman Callum Neal Ethan Mooney Rawn Seale Rio Beach Lewis Collins Jordan Edwards Joe Sadler Morgan Grout

15 8 6 6 2 4 4 2 2 2 2 0 1 1

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0

0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

FA Cup 3 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

FA Vase 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0

Match Highlights Leverstock Green 2 Real Bedford 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a81SZio1EBc

Total 19 10 7 7 7 6 4 3 3 2 2 2 1 1

Alan Lee Reporting Leverstock Green 2 Real Bedford 1 Leverstock Green pulled off a magnificent result on Saturday as they defeated runaway league leaders Real Bedford 2-1 at the Lords Builders Merchant Stadium. The visitors were 22 points ahead of Leverstock at the start of play and had won all but three of their league fixtures, but they came up against a disciplined, hard-working Leverstock side that fully deserved their three points that took them back up to third place in the SSML Premier Division.

Right from the start Leverstock were chasing every ball and pressuring their opponents, allowing them little chance to play their football. Leverstock took the lead in the 13th minute from a corner. Dan Pett’s cross went right into the heart of the six yard box, where Radu-Mihai Stefanoaica connected with a powerful header that brought a great save out of visiting keeper Tyler McGregor. However, Luke Beckwith got his head to the rebound and forced the ball over the line for a 1-0 Leverstock lead.

Three minutes later Bedford had a go with a long-range effort which was well saved by Josh Bowler. However, much of the play was at the other end, where Leverstock’s constant pressure forced an error out of McGregor, who kicked the ball straight to Stefanoaica in the 21st minute, but got away with it as Stefanoaica shot over the bar. Rawn Seale got on the end of another Pett corner in the 25th minute, but his header went wide. Three minutes later Seale pressured a defender into giving the ball away on the edge of his own penalty area. Seale laid the ball off to Beckwith, whose cross was met by Stefanoaica sliding in to put Leverstock into a 2-0 lead.

The last ten minutes of the half saw a strong recovery from the visitors, as they finally started to put a threat on the Leverstock goal. In the 40th minute Ben Stevens got past a couple of challenges in the box before shooting home to put his side back into the game at 2-1. Over the remainder of the half Bowler had to save a close-range header, and Joey Evans fired a shot inches over the bar as Leverstock were desperately in need of the half time whistle.

The way that Bedford ended the half suggested that it would be a long second half for Leverstock, but after the break the Green side had recovered their composure and picked where they had left off before Bedford’s revival.

Leverstock were once again chasing down their opponents and denying them any space. The visitors were unable to create any meaningful chances until the final minutes as the Leverstock defence held their nerve.

Leverstock could have added a third goal in the 78th minute, but McGregor pulled off a great save to keep out a fierce shot from Ethan Mooney, and denied Ademide Baruwa from the rebound. In the 83rd minute it was the turn of Bowler to pull off two equally impressive saves, firstly turning a header from a free kick round the post, and then tipping a header over the bar from the resulting corner. Seven additional minutes were played at the end, and in the fourth of those minutes an unlucky deflection offered a great chance to a Bedford forward, but Rio Beach came in with a superb game-winning block.

The final whistle eventually came and Leverstock celebrated a notable win that keeps them very much in the promotion play-off picture.

Leverstock Green (2) 2 (Beckwith 13, Stefanoaica 28) 1. Josh Bowler, 2. Mikey Havill-Tierney, 3. Rio Beach, 4. Dan Weeks, 5. Paul Marks, 6. Ryan Carruthers (12.

Ademide Baruwa 56 mins), 7. Luke Beckwith (16. Ethan Mooney 58 mins), 8. Dan Pett, 9. Rawn Seale, 10. Nat Connolly (15. Daniel Green 66 mins), 11. Radu-Mihai Stefanoaica (14. Lewis Collins 70 mins). Sub not used: 17.

Brad Robinson.

Photos from Saturday Thanks to Stephen Fletcher

Spartan South Midlands Premier Division Table 3rd February 2024 Team

P

W

D

L

F

A

GD

PTS

1 Real Bedford

26

22

2

2

93

19

74

68

2 Milton Keynes Irish

23

19

3

1

70

14

56

60

3 Leverstock Green

25

15

4

6

56

41

15

49

4 St Panteleimon

25

13

7

5

50

32

18

46

5 FC Romania

24

12

5

7

58

42

16

41

6 Harpenden Town

24

11

4

9

44

42

2

37

7 Tring Athletic

24

9

6

9

39

42

-3

33

8 London Lions

24

8

8

8

50

47

3

32

9 Colney Heath

24

10

2

12

33

39

-6

32

10 Potton United

26

9

5

12

33

46

-13

32

11 Cockfosters

22

8

7

7

45

37

8

31

12 Dunstable Town

24

8

7

9

37

37

0

31

13 Biggleswade United

24

9

4

11

47

58

-11

31

14 Aylesbury Vale Dynamos

21

9

2

10

42

50

-8

29

15 Baldock Town

26

8

3

15

50

64

-14 24 *

16 Stansted

23

6

5

12

31

48

-17

23

17 Arlesey Town

23

6

3

14

21

51

-30

21

18 Crawley Green

22

4

4

14

29

56

-27

16

19 Shefford Town & Campton

20

4

4

12

26

59

-33

16

20 Sawbridgeworth Town

20

0

5

15

18

48

-30

5

Spartan South Midlands Premier Division Results & Fixtures Saturday 3rd February PDC

Baldock Town

1

3

Aylesbury Vale Dynamos

PREM

Cockfosters

2

0

Potton United

PREM

Harpenden Town

2

1

Crawley Green

PREM

Leverstock Green

2

1

Real Bedford

PREM

London Lions

4

3

Biggleswade United

PREM

Milton Keynes Irish

3

0

Sawbridgeworth Town

PREM

Shefford Town & Campton

0

1

Arlesey Town

PREM

Stansted

2

2

Dunstable Town

PREM

Tring Athletic

3

2

St Panteleimon

Tuesday 6th February GCT

Aylesbury Vale Dynamos

Berkhamsted Raiders

GCT

Baldock Town

Huntingdon Town

GCT

Leverstock Green

Dunstable Town

PREM

Shefford Town & Campton

Biggleswade United

CC

Stansted First

FC Clacton First

GCT

Tring Athletic

Buckingham FC

Wednesday 7th February PREM

FC Romania

London Lions

PREM

St Panteleimon

Aylesbury Vale Dynamos

Leverstock Green Football Club Club Scarf £11 Club Pin Badge £4 Club Pen £2 Beanie £10

Man of the Match Josh, named as MOM vs Real Bedford presented

by Bomber – Darren Bonfield

50 appearances Well done to Luke Beckwith, who made his 50th appearance for the club on Saturday!

Also, too the following who recently passed 50 appearances: Radu-Mihai Stefanoaica (51) Brad Robinson (52) Rawn Seale (54)

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Step 4 and Step Flay Offs 2023/24 Season The Clubs finishing in the bottom two places in each of the eight divisions at Step 4 at the end of the Regular Season will be relegated and placed in a feeder pool and placed in the most geographically appropriate division at Step 5 for the following Playing Season.

Clubs relegated for finishing in the bottom two places in each of the eight divisions at Step 4 will be replaced by the Clubs finishing in 1st position in each of the sixteen divisions at Step 5 together with a further 16 Clubs (one Club from each of the sixteen divisions at Step 5) determined by a series of Play Off Matches.

Where a Club finishes in 1st position but does not meet the minimum criteria for promotion to the next Step (which shall include being awarded a Grade 5 following an independent ground grading inspection), the Club finishing in 2nd position shall be promoted and the Club finishing in 3rd position (and so on) shall be the Club in the next eligible position to take part in the Play Off Matches. Where a Club finishes in a Play Off Position but does not meet the Criteria for participation in Play Off Matches, the Club finishing in the next eligible position shall take part in the Play Off Matches.

In each division at Step 5, the Play Off Matches shall be played so that the highest placed of the eligible Clubs plays against the lowest placed of the eligible Clubs and the other two eligible Clubs play each other. The ties will be played on a single match basis with the home Club being the Club with the best points per match ratio in the Regular Season. If there are only three eligible Clubs, then the highest placed eligible Club shall receive a bye and play the winner of the other Play Off Match, and the winner of that match will be promoted. Clubs finishing below 7th position will not be eligible to take part in Play Off Matches.

The promoted Clubs will be placed in a feeder pool and placed in the most geographically appropriate division at Step 4 for the following Playing Season. In addition, a Club promoted to Step 4 shall comply with the Licencing System provision as set out in Appendix 1 to the Standardised Rules.

Currently the Play Off’s look like.

Real Bedford Promoted Milton Keynes Irish vs FC Romania ST Panteleimon vs Leverstock Green

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The Clubs finishing in the bottom four places in each of the eight divisions at Step 4 at the end of the Regular Season will be relegated and placed in a feeder pool and placed in the most geographically appropriate division at Step 5 for the following Playing Season.

Clubs relegated for finishing in the bottom four places in each of the eight divisions at Step 4 will be replaced by the Clubs finishing in 1st position in each of the sixteen divisions at Step 5 together with a further 16 Clubs (one Club from each of the sixteen divisions at Step 5) determined by a series of Play Off Matches.

Where a Club finishes in 1st position but does not meet the minimum criteria for promotion to the next Step (which shall include being awarded a Grade 5 following an independent ground grading inspection), the Club finishing in 2nd position shall be promoted and the Club finishing in 3rd position (and so on) shall be the Club in the next eligible position to take part in the Play Off Matches. Where a Club finishes in a Play Off Position but does not meet the Criteria for participation in Play Off Matches, the Club finishing in the next eligible position shall take part in the Play Off Matches.

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Form Tables – SSML Premier Division & HSCL Premier Division Pos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

Team Milton Keynes Irish Real Bedford Leverstock Green Tring Athletic Aylesbury Vale Dynamos London Lions Dunstable Town Colney Heath Harpenden Town Arlesey Town Potton United FC Romania Cockfosters St Panteleimon Stansted Crawley Green Shefford Town & Campton Biggleswade United Baldock Town Sawbridgeworth Town

P

Team Hatfield Town First Cuffley Seniors First Belstone First Oracle Components First Hertford Heath First Apsley Argyle First Leverstock Green Development Lemsford First Chipperfield Corinthians First Colney Heath FC Reserves Hinton First Buntingford Town First Everett Rovers London Lions Development Bush Hill Rangers FC First Cockfosters Reserves Sandridge Rovers First Baldock Town Reserves

P

W 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

D 5 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 0

W 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

L 1 1 1 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1

D 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 0

F 0 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 3 3 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 3 5

L 2 2 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 1 0 1

A 12 18 15 14 17 15 8 10 10 7 7 11 10 8 8 7 6 7 9 4

F 0 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 3 4 4 3 4 5 5

3 6 8 8 12 9 4 6 10 9 8 15 10 12 12 17 16 18 11 12 A

22 19 11 23 18 15 9 15 14 16 14 10 17 6 6 9 10 12

4 10 7 12 14 12 10 18 11 17 16 13 16 12 16 13 18 29

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Development Team Fixtures and Results Date

Venue

Opponents

Score

Goalscorers

05-Aug

HSCL

Away

Bushey Hill Rangers

1-5

Lost

Moore

08-Aug

HSCL

Home

Everett Rovers

0-3

Lost

15-Aug

HSCL

Home

0-3

Lost

19-Aug

HSCL

Home

Chipperfield Corinthians Hinton

2-4

Lost

Hennessy, Kelly

22-Aug

HSCL

Away

Colney Heath

1-2

Lost

Lodovica

26-Aug

HSCL

Away

Hatfield Town

1-4

Lost

Hennessy

02-Sep

HSCL

Away

Cockfosters Res

2-1

Won

Mandeville, Hajousman

09-Sep

HSCL

Home

Hatfield Town

0-6

Lost

16-Sep

HSCL

Away

Lemsford

3-2

Won

23-Sep

HSCL

Home

Cuffley

4-6

Lost

26-Sep

HFAC

Home

Apsley Argle

4-3

Won

07-Oct

HSCL

Home

Hertford Heath

0-5

Lost

14-Oct

HSCL

Away

London Lions Dev

4-6

Lost

21-Oct

HSCL

Home

Buntingford Utd

2-4

Lost

Dischamps 2, Kirov, Grout Grout, Marshall

28-Oct

NAT

Home

Bovingdon Res

1-2

Lost

Dischamps

07-Nov

HFAC

Home

Cuffley

2-3

Lost

Moore, Duane-Berry

11-Nov

HSCL

Away

Baldock Town Res

2-0

Won

McIntosh 2

25-Nov

HSCL

Away

Oracle Components

1-6

Lost

Havill-Tierney

02-Dec

HSCL

Away

Belstone

1-2

Lost

Evripidis Grigoriou

16-Dec

HSCL

Home

Colney Heath Res

2-1

Won

Moore 2

13-Jan

HSCL

Home

London Lions Dev

1-0

Won

Duane-Berry

27-Jan

HSCL

Away

Hinton

4-1

Won

McIntosh 2, Kanda, Dalli

03-Feb

HSCL

Away

Apsley Argyle

0-0

Draw

10-Feb

HSCL

Home

Sandridge Rovers

17-Feb

HSCL

Away

Everett Rovers

24-Feb

HSCL

Home

Bushey Hill Rangers

02-Mar

HSCL

Away

Sandridge Rovers

Herbert, McGinty, Hennessy Adriano 2, Hennessy, Moore Kirov 2, Michell-Gears, Stefanoaica

Herts Senior County League Premier Division Results and Fixtures Saturday 3rd February L

Apsley Argyle First

0

0

Leverstock Green Development

L

Baldock Town Reserves

3

3

Cuffley Seniors First

L

Belstone First

1

0

Bush Hill Rangers FC First

NAT

Hertford Heath First

2*

2

Hinton First

L

Lemsford First

3

2

Cockfosters Reserves

L

Oracle Components First

2

5

Colney Heath FC Reserves

NAT

Sandridge Rovers First

1

4

Bovingdon Reserves

L

Everett Rovers

3

0

London Lions Development

L

Hatfield Town First

2

0

Chipperfield Corinthians First

Saturday 10th February L

Apsley Argyle First

Hertford Heath First

L

Belstone First

Buntingford Town First

L

Chipperfield Corinthians First

Bush Hill Rangers FC First

L

Cockfosters Reserves

Baldock Town Reserves

NAT

Hemel Hempstead Rovers First

Everett Rovers

L

Hinton First

Cuffley Seniors First

L

Oracle Components First

Sandridge Rovers First

L

Hatfield Town First

Colney Heath FC Reserves

L

Leverstock Green Development

Lemsford First

Herts Senior County League Premier Division Table 3rd February 2024 Team

P

W

D

L

GD

PTS

1 Hatfield Town First

23

16

4

3

60

52

2 Belstone First

18

15

2

1

31

47

3 Chipperfield Corinthians First

20

14

1

5

22

43

4 Cuffley Seniors First

17

12

2

3

27

38

5 Hertford Heath First

19

11

4

4

22

37

6 London Lions Development

23

8

7

8

-3

31

7 Hinton First

17

9

3

5

14

30

8 Bush Hill Rangers FC First

20

8

5

7

2

29

9 Colney Heath FC Reserves

21

8

5

8

-4

29

10 Buntingford Town First

22

8

4

10

-10

28

11 Everett Rovers

21

7

4

10

-3

25

12 Apsley Argyle First

24

7

4

13

-19

25

13 Oracle Components First

18

6

2

10

-4

20

14 Lemsford First

20

5

4

11

-23

19

15 Leverstock Green Development

20

6

1

13

-30

19

16 Cockfosters Reserves

15

3

3

9

-17

12

17 Sandridge Rovers First

18

2

4

12

-26

10

18 Baldock Town Reserves

20

2

3

15

-39

9

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Leverstock Green Development pulled off an impressive 4-1 win away to Hinton in today’s Herts Senior County League Premier Division match. Jamie McIntosh scored twice, with Joe Dalli and Schilo Kanda adding the other goals. It was a third straight league win for Andy Murray’s side.

The Development Team made it four games unbeaten with a 0-0 draw against Apsley Argyle at Vauxhall Road on Saturday.

There was late heartbreak for the Under-18s, as they came very close to ending the 100% record of Tring Athletic in Thursday night’s SCFYL Corinthian Division game but were beaten by a goal deep into stoppage time.

Tring had won their opening four league games, as well as having a long run in the FA Youth Cup, and they took an early lead. However, Stan Kenyon equalised for Leverstock in the 14th minute. The score remained a 1-1 until the 4th minute of stoppage time when Tring scored a winner.

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Under 18’s Team Fixtures and Results Date 16-Aug

FAYC

31-Aug

Venue Away

Opponents Oxhey Jets

Score 1-4 Lost

Goalscorers Payne

SCYFL Away

Leighton Town

1-4

Lost

Dischamps

15-Sep

SCYFL Away

Hemel Hempstead

1-2

Lost

21-Sep

SCYFL Home

Dunstable Town

4-1

Won

28-Sep

SCYFL Away

Buckingham

5-0

Won

05-Oct

SCYFL Home

Winslow

1-4

Lost

Dischamps 2, Darr, Roberts Kelly 3, McIntosh, Renton McIntosh

12-Oct

SCYFL Away

Aylesbury Vale Dyn

1-2

Lost

Moore

19-Oct

SCYFL Away

Dunstable Town

0-3

Lost

23-Oct

BHC

Barnet

2-1

Won

McIntosh, Martin

16-Nov

SCYFL Away

Winslow

3-5

Lost

23-Nov

SCYFL Home

Aylesbury Vale Dyn

3-0

Won

28-Nov

BHC

Crawley Green

4-1

Won

Sadler, McIntosh, Dischamps Dischamps, Kelly, McIntosh McIntosh 3, McGinty

11-Jan

SCYFL Away

Tring Athletic

1-2

Lost

25-Jan

SCYFL Home

Kings Langley

3-1

Won

Martin, Wood, King

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SCYFL Home

Leighton Town

1-1

Draw

Martin

SCYFL Home

Hemel Hempstead

Away

Away

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Southern Counties Floodlight League Corinthian League Table 1st February 2024 Team

P

W

D

L

GD

Pts

1 Tring Athletic U18 Midweek

9

9

0

0

28

27

2 Aylesbury Vale Dynamos FC U18 FL

9

6

0

3

11

18

3 Winslow United U18 Southern

10

5

2

3

4

17

4 Leighton Town U18

8

5

1

2

11

16

5 Kings Langley FC U18

10

5

0

5

-4

15

6 Hemel Hempstead Town U18

8

4

2

2

13

14

7 Leverstock Green U18

12

4

1

7

-1

13

8 Berkhamsted FC U18

7

3

0

4

-1

9

9 Dunstable Town U18

11

3

0

8

-21

9

10 Buckingham Football Club U18 S

10

0

0

10

-40

0

Under 18’s Team Goal Scorers Jamie McIntosh Luc Dischamps Shay Kelly Oscar Martin Archie Roberts Kaashan Darr James Renton Callum Moore Joe Sadler Stanley Kenyon Archie Wood Daniel Payne Connor McGinty

League 4 5 5 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0

BHC 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

League Cup 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

HFA U18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

FAY Cup 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0

Total 8 5 5 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Southern Counties Floodlight League Corinthian Division Results & Fixtures Week commencing 29th January 2024 COR

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0

Hemel Hempstead Town U18

4

COR

Leverstock Green U18

1

Leighton Town U18

1

COR

Buckingham Football Club U18

1

Aylesbury Vale Dynamos FC U18

4

COR

Tring Athletic U18 Midweek

4

Kings Langley FC U18

1

COR

Dunstable Town U18

4

Winslow United U18 Southern

2

COR

Hemel Hempstead Town U18

Berkhamsted FC U18

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Leighton Town U18

Hemel Hempstead Town U18

COR

Hemel Hempstead Town U18

Leighton Town U18

COR

Winslow United U18 Southern

Tring Athletic U18 Midweek

COR

Tring Athletic U18 Midweek

Winslow United U18 Southern

COR

Buckingham Football Club U18

Berkhamsted FC U18

COR

Kings Langley FC U18

Aylesbury Vale Dynamos FC U18

COR

Hemel Hempstead Town U18

Leighton Town U18

COR

Leighton Town U18

Hemel Hempstead Town U18

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Berkhamsted FC U18

Dunstable Town U18

COR

Dunstable Town U18

Berkhamsted FC U18

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Leighton Town U18

Tring Athletic U18 Midweek

COR

Kings Langley FC U18

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COR

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Leverstock Green FC was formed around 1895. The first match reports appeared on January 4th 1896 in the Advertiser and gave an account of a match against Hemel Hempstead Rovers.

The first competitive fixtures were reported during season 1908/1909 when the Club competed in Division Three of the West Herts League. Other clubs competing in the league at that time were: Abbots Langley, Bovingdon, Boxmoor, Bushey Heath, Hagden Lane, Kings Langley and Potten End. The Club ground in Pancake Lane originally formed part of the Gorhambury Estate, Lord Verulam making the ground available for the youth of the area and his estate workers to enjoy a game of ball. Clearly Lord Verulam was an early enthusiast, providing timber-built changing rooms, which have been progressively replaced since the 1960s by the existing brick-built clubhouse and changing rooms.

On the death of the Lord, certain parcels of land, including that on which the Football Club stood, fell to the Crown in lieu of death duties and is administered on its behalf by the Commission for New Towns, who have remained the Clubs landlords since that time, despite two unsuccessful attempts by the Club to buy the freehold.

Leverstock Green FC remained members of the West Herts League until 1954 when it broadened its horizons and successfully applied to join the Herts County League.

By the mid 1970s the Club started to move forward with a new clubhouse, post & rail, and the installation of training lights.

The playing side of the club also improved and in 1979 the club won Division One of the Herts County League and were promoted to the Premier Division – the highest standard the Club had achieved in 80 years.

In 1991 Leverstock Green FC were accepted into the South Midlands League and had two highly successful seasons in the Premier Division before being forced to drop into the Senior Division, as floodlights were then not available. In 1996 the club finished in runners-up position and the following season were the divisional champions but could not be promoted because floodlights had still not received approval from the Council.

Premier Division status was eventually regained in 2003, and the club is now the longest-standing current member of the division. The club’s highest finish in the Premier Division has been 4th, in season 2010/11, with top six finishes also being recorded in 2005/06, 2006/07 and 2008/09.

Season 2010/11 also saw the club’s best ever run in the FA Vase, with wins over Welwyn Garden City, Enfield, Hullbridge Sports, Tunbridge Wells and Bemerton Heath Harlequins before defeat in the Fifth Round against Rye United. The club has twice reached the Third Round of the FA Vase, in seasons 2006/07 and 2018/19.

Leverstock Green FC entered the FA Cup for the first time in 2004, and the club’s best performance has been reaching the Second Round Qualifying, which was achieved in 2014/15, where we were beaten by Staines Town, and in 2018/19 where we were beaten by Dorking Wanderers.

County honours were won in 2006/07 and 2010/11 as the Herts Charity Shield was lifted, and the club were beaten finalists in the Herts Charity Cup in 2011/12. After finishing runners-up four times over the previous 12 years, The West Herts FA St Mary’s Cup was finally lifted for the first time in 2017/18 with victory over Berkhamsted in the final at Vauxhall Road.

Between 2005 and 2015 the club ran a successful Ladies’ Team, which rose from the Beds and Herts League into the Eastern Region Womens League, reaching the Premier Division in 2013.

The under-18 side competes in the Southern Counties Floodlit Youth League. The team finished runners-up in their division in seasons 2010/11 and 2014/15, and in 2015/16 they reached the final of both the Brian Hitchings Cup and the Colwyn Cup, losing in both finals to Luton Town Cedars. Many players have made the step up from under-18 level to first team level, and those who have gone on to play much higher up the non-league pyramid include Charlie Gorman (Eastbourne Borough), Luke Warner-Eley (Royston Town, St Albans City) and Jonathan Lacey (Hemel Hempstead Town) who also represented the England non-league side in the Falklands while a Leverstock Green player.

The Pancake Lane ground has seen many improvements due to ever more stringent ground grading requirements. In 2007 the Peter Metcalfe changing rooms were built at a cost of £90,000. 2008 saw the refurbishment of the clubhouse to include new toilets and a new hospitality suite. In 2009 the concrete walkway was completed to cover three sides of the ground and a seated stand accommodating 113 spectators was installed.

Season 2018/19 was one of turmoil and sadness, as long-serving fixture secretary Graham Smart passed away suddenly only weeks after taking on the role of interim chairman. A season which promised so much at the start ended with the club only securing Premier Division safety on the final day.

Emma Smart took over as chairman for season 2019/20, and with a new management team and a new spirit of optimism the club was on course for a safe mid-table finish before the season was brought to a premature end by Covid-19. The management team of Matt Harding and Mick Vipond continued into the 2020/21 season, which again came to a premature end.

For season 2021/22, a new management team of Fergus Moore, Scott McGleish and Paul Marks was appointed. Fergus and Scott continued through season 2022/23 and won their first silverware for the club with a 1-0 win over Tring Athletic in the final of the West Herts St Mary’s Cup. Fergus and Scott are joined by former Under-18 manager Ross Bargent for season 2023/24, and the club has also started a Development Team this season, which will be playing in the Herts Senior County League Premier Division.

Four club stalwarts have received awards from the Football Association and the Herts FA for 50 years’ service to football. The first was Jim Matthews, affectionately known as “Macca”, who passed away at the age of 90 in 2006. The second was Bill Dawes in 2014, and the third was longserving club secretary Brian Barter in 2019. Brian stood down from his role as secretary in 2020, having twice been honoured with awards from the Spartan South Midlands League. The fourth to receive the award was vice-chairman and treasurer Tony Smart in 2023.

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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 this 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.

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GOLD Members Club Tony Smart, Alan Lee, Keith Pym Colin Bull and Bill Dawes The Gold Members Club for those who have 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.

If you like to join the Gold Club, please contact Tony Smart

MAIN CLUB SPONSOR SEASON 2023-2024

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