Good afternoon one and all and a warm welcome to the Vistavis Community Stadium for our opening game of the new season. It's our pleasure to welcome the players, officials and supporters of Glebe FC, who are making their first visit to East Grinstead. Glebe were due to be hosting us in today's FA Cup extra preliminary round game but their ground isn't quite ready for the switch. It has been another busy summer on and off the pitch. It's good to see that Drew has managed to retain the bulk of last season's squad as well as bringing in some quality new faces, more of which you will be able to read about in future programmes and on egtfc.co.uk. Ian Nicolls is in charge today because Drew is on holiday and we wish everyone wearing the amber and black a successful season. The league schedule is detailed elsewhere in this smaller than usual programme, but a reminder we kick off at Margate next Saturday before hosting AFC Croydon Athletic a week later.
LEAGUE DIVISION TABLE | 23-24
1AFC Croydon Athletic
2Ashford United
3Beckenham Town
4Broadbridge Heath
5Burgess Hill Town
6Deal Town
7East Grinstead Town
8Eastbourne Town
9Erith Town
10Herne Bay
11Hythe Town
12Lancing
13Littlehampton
14Margate
15Merstham
16Phoenix Sports
17Ramsgate
18Sevenoaks Town
19Sheppey United
20Sittingbourne
21Steyning Town
FIXTURES & RESULTS
Jan
GLEBE FC
Founded 1995
Nickname The Foxes
Glebe FC were founded as the junior side Glebe Globetrotters in 1995 by chairman Rocky McMillan and his wife Grace. Initially based in West Wickham, Kent, and starting with just an U8s team, the club progressed through the age groups. Regulars in Kent’s Youth Leagues, Glebe won every junior trophy possible including 10 London County Cups.
After their exceptional beginnings as a junior side, their committee voted to form a Senior section in 2010, and the newly established team joined the Kent Invicta League (KIL) in 2013-14. In 2014, we also won the prestigious London FA Standard Charter Community Club of the Year Award, which was voted for by the executive committee of the London FA.
But for years Glebe were nomads, seemingly unable to secure a permanent home. For the first two seasons the senior side ground shared with Holmesdale, but, in 2014, we signed a 25-year lease to take over Old Elthamians Rugby Club. This was a historic day in the club’s history, when we had a base to be a focal point for sport in the community, at last.
With the help of the Football Stadia Improvement Fund, we have since built a modern sports complex. The club resides in 15 acres in Chislehurst, comprising five pitches, a new stadium pitch, a separate floodlit training area, gym, bar and reception rooms with plans for a new 3G stadium pitch. For the new 2024/25 season we have over 400 members with 35 teams including boy and girls team from U-7s to the men’s first team.
The SCEFL side are managed by Fred Dillon and Chris Steadman at step 5 which is one below us. They kicked off the new campaign last Saturday with a 4-0 defeat at Faversham.
SQUAD STATS
TODAY’S Teams
EAST GRINSTEAD FC
Matte Pierson c c
Oli Cash c c
Paddy Curran c c
Adonai DaCruz c c
Brissi Iwen-Kuwaku c c
Tom Cadman c c
Alex Filipe Andrade c c
Glenn Wilson c c
Matty Weaire c c
Kieran Humpherston c c
Matt Daniel c c
Michael Wilson c c
Ricardo Thompson c c
Ollie Spinks c c
Toch Singh c c
Charlie Harris c c
Connor Tighe c c
Alex Nunes c c
Salami Al-Amin c c
Camron Lawson c c
Omar Folkes c c
Abdoulaye Coulibally c c
Manager: Ian Nicolls
Colours: Amber & Black
GLEBE FC
Justin Lee c c
Paul Lee c c
Sean Adams c c
Alfie Kitt c c
James Fitchett c c
Henry Goodwin c c
Joel Flavien- Howard c c
Max Juniper c c
Kelvin Bakare c c
Femi Ogunbiyi c c
Zak Loveridge c c
Red Jenkins c c
Ben Lockett c c
Jamie Philpot c c
Jack Highwood c c
Sam Wood c c
Dayo Santanna c c
Alex Arif c c
Josh Sotinwa c c
Manager: Fred Dillon
Colours: Red & White
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Next HOMe GAMe
Saturday August 17, kick off 3pm AFC Croydon Athletic
Referee: Jack Healy
MATCH OFFICIALS
Assistant Referee: Harley Webster
Assistant Referee: James Bonney
ROLL OF HONOURS
SUSSEX COUNTY LEAGUE: Division Two champions 2007–08 Baldwin Cup winners 1951–52
MID-SUSSEX LEAGUE: Champions 1901–02, 1936–37
Montgomery Cup winners 1911–12, 1912–13
SOUTHERN AMATEUR LEAGUE: Division Three champions 1931–32
SUSSEX RUR CUP: Winners 2003–04
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