Tuesday 6th December 2022 Kickoff 7:45 pm ISSUE 14 2022/23 SEASON
ABBEY HULTON UNITED VS MAINE ROAD FC
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Club Information Legal Entity: Unincorporated Ground: Drayton Beaumont Park Address: Birches Head Road, Birches Head, Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire Postcode: ST2 8DD Telephone: 01782 570302 2022/23 Admission Prices: £5 adults, £3 concessions, under 16s free Secretary: John Wightman Chairman: Lee Savage Manager: Russell Leadbetter Programme Editor: Simon Laidler Committee / Directors: Lee Savage, John Wightman, John Agar, Mary Wightman, Liam Franklin, Sharon Franklin, Chris Basford, Steven Buxton, Lee Wightman, Simon Laidler, Daren Foulkes, David Baskeyfield, Wayne Mellor, David Bates, Darren Martin County Affiliation: Staffordshire FA Year Formed: 1947 Record Attendance: 605 vs Stoke City FC November 2021 Previous Leagues: Staffordshire County Senior League Honours: Burslem and Tunstall Division 2 - Runners Up 1973/1974. Burslem and Tunstall Division 1 League Winners 1978/79 Burslem and Tunstall League Cup Winners 1978/1979 Fenton and District Division 1 Runners Up 1981/1982 Fenton and District Division 1 - League Winners, Cup Winners and Charity Cup Winners 1982/1983 Challenge Cup - Runners Up 1986/1987 Staffs County League Division 1 - League Winners, Cup Winners and Fair Play Award 1997/1998 Staffs County Senior League Premier Division - League winners and Leek Cup Winners 2016/2017.
CLUB HISTORY Abbey Hulton United Football Club was formed 73 years ago in 1947, making it one of the oldest formed clubs still playing Saturday football in North Staffordshire. During its very early days the club played on Council land in the Abbey Hulton area. It continued to use this facility for the first 15 years, despite the fact that the changing facilities were more than a mile away from the actual pitch. In 1962 it was decided that the team should move to the Parks facility at Bucknall Park which was complete with its own changing rooms and showers adjacent to the pitch. What a luxury. The team continued to use Bucknall Park for another 23 years, until 1985. During the period from 1947 to 1985 the team played in many local junior leagues such as: • The Longton League • Fenton and District League • Burslem and Tunstall League • Newcastle and District League They graced all the above leagues with great distinction. Over the years the club became more financially stable and grew in ambition. Finally in 1985 they acquired a piece of land at Birches Head Road on which it was able to obtain a 99 year lease. This is the clubs current address. Immediately, a clubhouse was built containing a bar and changing rooms for both teams and officials. At the same time an outside 5 a-side football facility was built, complete with floodlights. Having moved to this new facility the club opted to join the North Staffs Alliance League. It completed in this leauge before seeking election to one of the top leagues in the area, The Staffs County League (North), in 1987. The team played in this league and finally had a momentous season in 1997-1998 by winning the league, the cup and also the fair play award all in one season. Having achieved this feat the club applied to join what is the top junior league in North Staffordshire, the Staffordshire County Senior League. In 2017 Abbey Hulton United won the Staffordshire County Senior Premier League Championship and were promoted to the North West County Football League.
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maine road The Club takes its name from Maine Road Social Club in Moss Side, Manchester, where it was formerly Headquartered and has become one of South Manchester’s most exciting Semi Professional Teams. Our philosophy has consistently promoted great youth development, attained a culture of outstanding club loyalty (with top 13 players making over 350 appearances ,of which the top 5 players have also gone on to run the first or reserve teams, and in our 67 year history we have had only 12 managers of which 8 have been ex-players) nurtured local talent (providing a platform for many players semi-professional careers or some professional careers such as Wayne Collins, Colin Little, James, Tarkowski) linked to success on the pitch. Highlights have been in the: North West Counties League (members since 1988, Division Two champions 1989–90 & Challenge Cup winners 2007–08); FA Vase reaching the Fourth round (1994–95) ; FA Cup reaching the Second qualifying round, (1989–90, 1990–91, 1992–93, 1994–95, 1997–98 & 2001–02) ; and great success in Manchester Premier trophies (winning all five county Cups - the Manchester Premier Cup (3) in 1975–76, 1976–77, 1987–88 ( & been runners up (2) 1999-00 & 2003-04) , and Amateur Cup (5), Sunday Amateur Cup (1), Intermediate Cup (2), Challenge Cup (4) Originally a Sunday league side - The Club was formed in 1955 as by our past Chairman Frank Thompson and friends as ‘City Supporters Rusholme’ in the Rusholme Sunday League, moving in the late sixties to the Manchester Amateur Sunday League and to the newly built Maine Road Social Club. Ronnie Meredith was now running the club and he changed the whole future of the club by moving to Saturday football in the Manchester League. Success followed success on the field and after several years of moving grounds we settled on our present home at Brantingham Road in 1980. In Season 1983-84 when we won our first Manchester League Premier Derek Barber took over the managerial reins in 1986 and the clubs progress continued so much that, when the Manchester County FA’s new complex at Brantingham Road was built, achieved, entry to the Bass North West Counties League. The next 12 years saw the winning the Division Two to be promoted to the then 4th Step of the Non-League Pyramid, Winning the Premier Cup beating Irlam Town 1-0 at Maine Road (home of Manchester City), some of the best FA cup runs and the best run to date in the FA Vase. Graham Whittingham took over the reins and another FA cup run plus a further Manchester Premier Cup Final appearance followed.
A short blip at the end of Season 2001-02, Maine Road were relegated to the 2nd division. but under the guidance of Chris Simms when our very young side finished 3rd and runners up, we returned to the top division, (2004) and the club has another appearance in the Premier Cup Final. The arrival of Ian Walker as manager (2006) saw Maine Roads improvement continue with 3 top 6 finishes in 4 seasons and the winning of the prestigious League Challenge Cup (2008). in 2012-13 John Morrey/Chris Thomas took over the managerial reins and in 2 seasons continued the improvement with a magnificent runners up spot (2013), followed by a 4th position (2014). Chris Hirst took over in November 2014 & ran the club until Oct 2017 and took a very young inexperienced side and finished mid table. Matt Barnes took over until the end of the season when the club was relegated to the 1st Division South. At the start of the 2018-19 season Calum Sykes took over the reins but at Christmas he left the club. We then went back to our normal policy of promoting from within & promoted Ray Barnett from the Reserves along with Jeff Newman and from being down in the relegation zone ended up finishing in 14th position and winning the club of the month in January. 19/20 was quite an extraordinary season ended early by the COVID-19 pandemic which saw Maine Road finish a respectable 9th position and win the Fair Play award along with the best program award for the 1st Division South. Season 21/22 started with an early managerial change following the appointment of Rees Welsh and Guy Heffernan who steered the club to a respectable 6th position. Maine Road has a long and proud reputation for attracting young players. This success in spotting and nurturing the best young talent has continued over the past decades with Maine Road’s domination of the Umbro International Tournament at Under 19 level. Over 11 seasons our Under 19’s have taken on and regularly outplayed talented youngsters from around the world. They have won the competition an amazing 6 times and been runners up 3 times. .
Today's Opponents LEAGUE SEASON SO FAR P
W
D
L
F
A
GD
PTS
18
8
2
8
33
30
+3
26
LEAGUE POSITION
CLEAN SHEETS
11 th
4
TOP SCORER 5 LOUIS EDWARDS / FRANCESCO FRANGILLO SHAQUILLE LEWYS/BEN MOONEY/YOUSIF YOUSIF
DISTANCE FROM DRAYTON BEAUMONT PARK : 43.4 MILES
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Appearances
Goals
Cards
Mom
Sub
Start
Sub
Red
Yellow
Yousuf Abdullahi
10
4
1
0
0
1
0
Abdi Addow
3
0
2
0
0
0
1
Abdullahi Ahmed
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
James Barry
2
6
0
0
0
0
0
Youssef Belattar
1
5
0
0
0
0
0
Liam Bell
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
Conrad Betton (GK)
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
Joshua Clegg
9
4
0
0
0
1
1
Damon Clynes
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
Kayde CoppinCritchlow
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Paul Earlam
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
Louis Edwards
16
1
5
0
0
2
1
Milo Edwards
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Ryan Eislet
15
1
2
0
0
0
2
Francesco Frangillo
8
3
5
0
0
1
0
Daniel Green (GK)
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Mark Holdridge
4
2
0
0
0
0
0
Joseph Keyworth
12
3
2
0
0
1
0
Daniel Lewis
9
6
1
0
0
4
1
Shaquille Lewys *
11
0
5
0
0
2
3
Reece Lyndon *
6
0
0
0
0
1
1
Jamie Matthews
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
Dylan Moloney *
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
Peter Monteith (GK)
21
0
0
0
0
4
2
Ben Mooney
22
1
5
0
0
1
2
James Perry
4
2
0
0
0
2
0
Jake Pogson
23
0
0
0
0
3
0
Alex Rimmer
8
12
3
0
0
0
0
Jamie Roe
19
1
1
0
0
2
1
Tyler Rufus
4
5
1
0
0
1
0
Ryan Smith
9
0
0
0
0
0
0
Ismail Suleiman
17
0
0
0
0
4
2
Finn Thompson
8
2
2
0
1
1
0
Rees Welsh
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Yousif Yousif
14
3
5
0
1
1
0
PLAYER STATS
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Player Name
Appearances
Goals
Cards
Mom
Sub
Start
Sub
Red
Yellow
Josh Bowden
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
Joshua Bristow
15
1
0
0
0
2
0
Fitzroy Butler
9
8
2
0
0
3
0
Adam Catalano
14
3
0
0
0
4
0
Daniel Cope
11
4
3
0
0
1
0
Lee Cropper
1
2
0
0
0
0
0
Kevyn Davies
13
2
2
0
1
3
0
Max Gardner
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Eric Graves
18
0
3
0
0
1
1
Samuel Hall
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
Zak Hill
13
3
0
0
1
2
0
Joel Igwenwanne
2
7
1
0
0
0
0
Jonathan Kapend
6
1
0
0
0
0
0
Dominic Kurasik (GK)
17
0
0
0
0
2
1
Kieran Lazenby
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Joe Lewis
15
0
0
0
0
5
0
Reagan Lymer
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Anthony Malbon *
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Nasser Mansour
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Joshua Martin
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
Ben Matthews
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
Ryan Pickup *
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
James Redford *
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Shaun Rhodes
13
0
1
0
0
0
2
Liam Robinson
24
0
12
0
0
2
8
Oliver Scott (GK)
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
George Shaw *
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
Samuel Smedley
14
4
8
0
0
2
2
Theo Stair
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
William Tams
9
5
0
0
0
0
0
Keeylin Thomas
12
2
0
0
1
4
0
Jamie Turner
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Jacob Vernon
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Octavian Virlan
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Matthew Ward
18
3
7
0
0
1
2
Jack Weldon
2
5
0
0
0
0
0
Jamie Weldon
16
2
0
0
0
2
0
Lewis Wilkinson
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Jharrell Williams
1
6
1
0
0
1
0
Morgan Woolliscroft (GK)
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
Sam Wytcherley
20
0
1
0
0
0
1
ABBEY HULTON UNITED 22/23 PLAYER STATS
Start
JULY 30.07
CHEADLE TOWN (H)
AUGUST 02.08 06.08 13.08 16.08 20.08 27.08 29.08
ECCLESHALL (A) STOCKPORT GEORGIANS (H) ECC 1S ELLESMERE RANGERS (A) WYTHENSHAWE AMATEURS (A) STOCKPORT GEORGIANS (H) KHALSA FF (H) FA VASE 1Q STAFFORD TOWN (H)
september 03.09 06.09 13.09 17.09 24.09 27.09
ALSAGER TOWN (A) NEW MILLS (H) BROCTON (A) ABBEY HAY (H) TIVIDALE (A) FA VASE 2Q WOLVERHAMPTON CASUALS (A) SSC1
october 01.10 08.10 15.10 22.10 29.10 november 05.11 12.11 19.11 26.11
MAINE ROAD (A) FOLEY MEIR (A) ECC 2S ALSAGER TOWN (A) MCUP 1 STOCKPORT TOWN (A) BARNTON (H) ASHVILLE(A) CHEADLE HEATH NOMADS (A) ECCLESHALL (H) MCUP R2 WYTHENSHAWE AM (H) ECC 3S
december 03.12 06.12 10.12 13.12 17.12 20.12 26.12
NEW MILLS (A) MAINE ROAD (H) SOUTH LIVERPOOL (A) MCUP 3 SANDBACH UNITED (H) BARNTON (A) ALSAGER TOWN (H) ROCESTER (A)
january 07.01 14.01 21.01 28.01
CAMMELL LAIRD 1907 (H) BROCTON (H) ABBEY HAY (A) FOLEY MEIR (A)
febraury 04.02 11.02 18.02 25.02
ELLESMERE RANGERS (H) CHEADLE HEATH NOMADS (H) SANDBACH UNITED (A) STOCKPORT TOWN (H)
march 04.03 11.03 18.03 25.03
WYTHENSHAWE AMATEURS (H) STOCKPORT GEORGIANS (A) ECCLESHALL (H) CAMMELL LAIRD 1907 (A)
april 01.04 10.04 15.04
CHEADLE TOWN (A) ROCESTER (H) STAFFORD TOWN (A)
1971
Today's fixtures Abbey Hey v Cheadle Heath Nomads Abbey Hulton United v Maine Road Eccleshall v Stafford Town Ellesmere Rangers v New Mills Sandbach United v Cammell Laird 1907 Wythenshawe Amateurs v Barnton
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DOMINIC KURASIK (GK) MORGAN WOOLLISCROFT (GK) ZAK HILL (GK) JOSH BOWDEN JOSHUA BRISTOW FITZROY BUTLER ADAM CATALANO DANIEL COPE LEE CROPPER JOEL IGWENWANNE KEVYN DAVIES ERIC GRAVES SAMUEL HALL JONATHAN KAPEND KIERAN LAZENBY JOE LEWIS JOSHUA MARTIN SHAUN RHODES LIAM ROBINSON SAMUEL SMEDLEY THEO STAIR WILLIAM TAMS JAMIE TURNER JACOB VERNON OCTAVIAN VIRLAN MATTHEW WARD JAMIE WELDON JACK WELDON LEWIS WILKINSON JHARRELL WILLIAMS SAM WYTCHERLEY
CONRAD BETTON (GK) PETER MONTEITH (GK) DANIEL GREEN (GK) YOUSUF ABDULLAHI ABDI ADDOW ABDULLAHI AHMED JAMES BARRY YOUSSEF BELATTAR LIAM BELL JOSHUA CLEGG DAMON CLYNES KAYDE COPPIN-CRITCHLOW PAUL EARLAM LOUIS EDWARDS MILO EDWARDS RYAN EISLET FRANCESCO FRANGILLO MARK HOLDRIDGE JOSEPH KEYWORTH DANIEL LEWIS BEN MOONEY JAMES PERRY JAKE POGSON ALEX RIMMER JAMIE ROE TYLER RUFUS RYAN SMITH ISMAIL SULEIMAN FINN THOMPSON REES WELSH YOUSIF YOUSIF
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