The late November deep freeze saw two weeks of football postponed

New committee elected
An Emergency General meeting has elected a new main management committee for the football club, to bring together the adult and youth wings of the club. Former youth officers will play a leading role, with Stuart Whitwell as chairman, Andy Gates as secretary and Craig Evans as treasurer, all moving from the positions they held in the youth section to take on those roles for the club as a whole.

The full committee is:
President - Bob Green
Chairman - Stuart Whitwell
Secretary - Andy Gates
Treasurer - Craig Evans
Fixtures - Peter Kitchen
Referees - Chris Grady
Football Development - Chris Galvin
Communications - Paul Clark
Social and Fundraising - John Charalambous
 

Parking
We have parking on site for about 60 vehicles, but if space is limited on match-day, we ask visitors to please give preference to team officials and referees. There’s no restrictions for on-street parking, but avoid parking on the grass verges or across driveways as you may be clamped or towed away.

Training for most teams is now going off-site, although some teams will continue to train under floodlights at our ground, weather permitting. U12 Youth will train at Grey Court school’s sports hall on Tues evening, U14 Youth will remain at our ground on Wed evening, U13 Youth, U18 Youth and Colts will share a half pitch at Tiffin girls, with one side each week training at our ground and U13 Colts and U18 Casauls will train at Tiffins on Friday evening.  Please check team pages for details.

Most teams do not have trials, preferring to look at players over several coaching sessions before deciding whether to invite them to the team. If you wish to play or help with a team, check out the email address on the contacts page and we’ll get back to you.

Jacob shows how to make a save at goalkeeper training - more pictures in Gallery

Awards evening
Annual Trophies were presented for Players’ Player, Manager’s Player and Most-improved Player. See photographs of Presentation evenings and winners listed on each team’s pages.

Enz with a bang... or a whimper
A difficult end to last season as we’d lost the use of our home ground on Sundays, so some matches were played at other venues, others rearranged to midweek or Saturday and sadly, a few had to be defaulted. Well done to all teams having to cope with such disruptive circumstances.

Our best overall result of the season came from our team not in action, the U18s who ended second in their league after main rivals, Kingstonians managed to win all their games in hand to finish a point ahead of Kew. A team with plenty to do in the last few weeks was our U13s, who came third, having to beat rivals Links home and away, and very nearly snatched a point from runaway division winners Cheam Rangers.  They then rounded off the season with a 2-1 win over Kingstonian Colts who finished mid table a division above them. Success too for our U17 Colts, who in their first season in the Surrey Primary League, finished 3rd, in spite of recording two draws in the double header against Send United. The long season helped, as main rivals Woking Comets defaulted their last two matches. U17 Casuals tested themselves out for next season in the Surrey Primary League, beating the second division 3rd placed side Byfleet Village but losing to runners-up Hersham, in end of season friendlies.

U12 Colts in their first season were a creditable 8th and in fact would have finished 7th if the league had allowed them to postpone their match against Sheen Lions, whom they beat in a friendly, a couple of weeks after Kew had to default during the Easter holidays. That said, their main problem was inconsistency, as they enjoyed wins against most sides above them, but also lost the return fixtures AND went down to teams below them. In their first season in the Premier division U12 Youth consolidated their position with a mid table finish, but in their last game 8-1 lost to the division champions which shows a gulf still exists to the top two sides. However, they did post wins or close results against the other teams above them.

A disappointing season for our two sides which have decided not to continue, U15s and U16s, although both managed to avoid the wooden spoon. U15s eased past bottom side Hearts of Teddlothian in a late mid-week double header in which they comfortably won both legs. That result took them above Tooting & Mitcham, but their last opponents moved back ahead of them with a 4-0 win in the last match. Much promise early season from our U16s but they continued last season’s habit of narrowly losing matches they could have won to slip down the table. They were generally competitive against all but the top sides, and could have finished as high as 6th if a few results had gone the other way, as they proved with a Cup run which took them through to the semi-final.