







Today we welcome Harpenden Town Players, Officials and Supporters to the LORDS Builders Merchants Stadium
Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division
We hope you have an enjoyable evening with us.
We also welcome our match officials Referee Daniel Merrall and his assistants Darren Fenner and Paul Melvin.
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 Tony 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.
LEVERSTOCK GREEN
White/Green Shirts, Green Shorts & Socks
HARPENDEN TOWN
Purple Shirts, Purple Shorts & Socks
AUSTIN BYFIELD (GK)
RIO BEACH
BRADLEY ROBISNON
DAN WEEKS
MICKEY HAVILL-TIERNEY
RYAN CARRUTHERS
CALLUN NEAL
LUKE DURNIN
GEORGE MITCHELL-GEARS
LUKE BECKWITH
JOE SADLER
CHRIS BLUNDEN
NAT CONNOLLY
CURTIS DIBLEY
JAMES EWINGTON
HADLEY GLEESON
ISAIAH HILAIRE
DAVID KEENLEYSIDE
SPENCER O’LEARY
EMMANUEL OLAJIDE
DANIEL PLAMER
KYLE RAHHO
GEORGE ROBINSON
MICKEY SHUTTLEWOOD
HARRY ANDTC
JAKE COLLINS
DAN PETT IVAN MACHADO
RYAN HENNESSEY
DANNY MAY
RADU-MIHAL STEFANOAICA
JAMES YOUNGER
JAKE ANTHONY
JOSH DOOLEY
RYAN PLOWRIGHT
Manager: Fergus Moore
Assistant: Scott McGleish
Coach: Darren Bonfield
Coach: Ross Bargent
Physio: Cam Gaffeny
Manager: Michael Nathan
Assistant: Robert Swan
Assistant: Steve O ’Reilly
Coach:
Physio : Dion He
Referee: Daniel Merrall
Referee Assistants: Darren Fenner & Paul Melvin
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.”
https://kitaid.net
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.
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 AssociationOfficers
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 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.
Harpenden Town Football Club was formed as Harpenden F.C. 1891 playing in both the Mid-Herts and Herts County Leagues, winning the Mid-Herts on numerous occasions. Town was added in the 1908.
Town climbed into the South Midlands League in 1957 winning the Premier Division title in 1962 and 1965 and in 1968 adding both the Herts Charity Shield & the South Midlands League Shield to their trophy haul.
Season 1990-91 saw the last significant investment in the club with the erection of the Centenary Stand, and the installation of floodlights. The Club obtained entry to the FA Cup for the first time in 1998 and is a regular contender in the FA Vase.
After a turbulent period resulting in relegation from the Premier Division in 2000 and 2005. At the start of the 2006/07 season a new committee was in place their first move was to gain the Football Associations Charter Standard Accreditation, which ensured the correct structures were in place.
On the field the club also required stabilising and it was felt that more local community approach was needed so links with Harpenden Colts were established to bring through local young players ensuring a pathway from under sevens to adult football.
Success soon followed and after only one year Harpenden Town was named Herts FA Charter Standard club of the year thanks to their community work, which included hosting an anti racism event, an adult seven aside competition, free coaching offered to schools/junior teams and the development of women’s football through the Herts youth games.
The past two seasons has seen Harpenden make strides to secure its long-term future however with possibly the worst facilities in the league due to lack of investment and vandalism over the past 20 years we face a massive task to completely turn around the clubs fortunes. We now have a new football management set up with local loyalties and most new players come from the local area. Off the field there is a new committee of local football fans who have not been involved with the club before supported by the old committee and others who still assist with the running of the club.
In 2015 having successfully obtained £100k of funding the club’s facilities have been refurbished which has had a positive impact on the club and its profile.
2018-19 was the last for the very successful manager Danny Plumb that included promotion back to the Spartan South Midlands Premier Division and a memorable Divisional Cup triumph inspired by local PE teacher David Keenleyside. The team is presently managed by Mickey Nathan assisted by Steve O’Reilly and Liam Dwyer.
Leverstock Green progressed through to the next round of the Isuzu FA Vase, but it was a more nervy ending than it needed to be after the Leverstock side had established a three-goal lead in the second half. A late comeback from SSML Division One side Ampthill Town threatened to take the game into penalties.
Due to injury and unavailability Fergus Moore was without his usual forward line plus three other players. Two players signed on a dual registration with Hadley were brought in to plug the gap up front, and between them Jordan Edwards and Jayden Newman contributed the three goals that won the game.
Leverstock made a bright start to the game and went close in the 2nd minute when a deflected shot from Ryan Carruthers went just wide of the post. Luke Beckwith had the ball in the net in the 10th minute, but the offside flag was already up. However, Beckwith made a key contribution to the opening goal four minutes later. Newman made a strong run forward before Beckwith’s pass set up Edwards to shoot home into the corner of the net.
There should have been further goals in a first half that Leverstock dominated. On 25 minutes Newman went on a mazy run into the box and hit a shot which took a deflection, but keeper Ross Tompkins pulled off a great improvised save to keep the ball out. Three minutes later Beckwith showed some very nifty footwork in the box, and although he couldn’t get a shot away himself, he set up Edwards for a shot which went straight at Tompkins. On 37 minutes a pass from Beckwith set up a chance for skipper Dan Weeks, but his shot went across goal and wide. Leverstock keeper Austin Byfield had little to do during the half, but in stoppage time dived to save a shot from Sam Holmes at his near post.
Leverstock went into the break with just the single goal lead, but that was doubled in the 52nd minute. Rio Beach pushed forward before a pass from Edwards picked out Newman to clinically shoot home the second goal. The favour was returned in the 64th minute when Newman crossed from the right and Edwards got on the end of it to head home the third Leverstock goal.
It looked like a comfortable lead, but two minutes later the deficit was reduced as Ampthill pulled a goal back, with Holmes applying a neat finish to a cross from the left.
The three-goal lead was almost re-established on 74 minutes as Newman hit a rasping shot from the edge of the box which struck the bar. Leverstock hit the woodwork again in the 84th minute as Mikey Havill-Tierney tried his luck from distance with a shot that struck the post. It still seemed inconceivable that Leverstock wouldn’t win the game, but in the 88th minute their lead was further reduced as they were caught out down the right. Byfield kept out a shot but could only parry it away, and Danny Watson followed up to net the rebound and make it 3-2.
Leverstock did their best to run out the clock during seven minutes of stoppage time, but there were still moments of danger as Ampthill threw everyone forward to try to take the game into an unlikely penalty shoot-out. Leverstock held out, though, and will now travel to fellow SSML Premier Division side Crawley Green in the Second Qualifying Round on Saturday 23rd September.
Leverstock Green (1) 3 (Edwards 14, 64, Newman 52)
1. Austin Byfield, 2. Mikey Havill-Tierney (15. Ethan Mooney 85 mins), 3. Rio Beach, 4. Dan Weeks, 5. Callum Neal (14. Connor McGinty 76 mins), 6. Danny May, 7. Ryan Carruthers, 8. Dan Pett, 9. Jordan Edwards, 10. Jayden Newman, 11. Luke Beckwith (12. Ademide Baruwa 79 mins). Subs not used: 16. Brad Robinson, 17. Darren Bonfield, 19. Scott McGleish, 20. Radu-Mihai Stefanoaica.Saturday 26th August
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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.
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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.
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.