Abbey Hulton United FC
Wednesday 10th November 7:45 pm Kickoff
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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 2021/22 Admission Prices: £5 adults, £3 concesssions, 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: 257 v Port Vale (17th September 2018) 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.
The View of the Manager WITH Russell Leadbetter Only taking 6 points in October makes me feel glad to see the back of it if I’m honest. Another three points from the games we played and I would have been happy with the month considering we played 3 top sides in West Didsbury, IOM and Cheadle Town. Very similar to September where we did the same thing. Consistency is proving to be really difficult for us, whether that’s getting the same team out, scoring goals consistently, or making stupid mistakes, and gifting teams’ easy free goals. I can’t say the lads aren’t working hard because they are, and consistency isn’t something that can be coached into a team. I think signing Copey is probably the best thing about October along with the derby win at Ecce with 10 men. He got a goal in his first game, and I think him along with other lads up front he will get a few more and so will they. We just need other contributors and to stop gifting teams easy soft goals that they aren’t even working for. I’d be happy with 8 points from November looking at the fixtures considering our away form. We will do our utmost to bring more though and hopefully a good performance/result against Stoke in the cup.
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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Chairman's Corner Good evening everyone and welcome to Abbey Hulton United fc to join us on a fantastic night. Tonight’s cup tie allows us the great pleasure of welcoming Stoke City FC to Drayton Beaumont Park in this most prestigious cup competition. This fixture in the Staffordshire Senior Challenge Cup is a fantastic occasion for our club allowing us to host a club of Stoke City stature here at Drayton Beaumont Park. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our sponsors that support our club allowing us to keep on pushing forward making these fantastic nights possible.
I want to also give a special mention and massive thankyou to our clubs ground sponsor Drayton Beaumont who aswel as continually sponsoring our club have also sponsored this years Senior Challenge Cup competition.
We’ve also got some more great news that will continue to help our club growing. We are very pleased to announce that we have now Secured the official lease of the old Milton United FC ground on Leek Road. This site in now officially our clubs second site allowing us to give our junior teams a ground they can call home. They can now play from there instead of having to travel all over the city to use other pitches and they can have pride in playing on their own fantastic pitch. Can I finish off with thanking everyone for your continued support to our club and hopefully tonight will be a great game of football for us all to enjoy Regards, Lee Savage Chairman Abbey Hulton United FC
Welcome to stoke city fc Stoke City's remarkable list of home-grown players through the years is one that the Club is very proud of. From the likes of Sir Stanley Matthews, Freddie Steele and Neil Franklin, the local back four of the 1970s, through to players such as Andy Wilkinson, Ryan Shotton and Tom Edwards, the Potters have always been keen to nurture local talent. City have entered youth teams in competitive games for many years, including the inaugural FA Youth Cup tournament in 1952. After two semi final appearances in 1955 and 1961, the Club reached the final in 1984, whilst also going on to lift the Midland Melville Cup in 1996. Following on from the move to the bet365 Stadium in 1997, the next priority was to improve the standard of facilities for producing stars of the future. A specialised dome was built nearby on Trentham Lakes and the Club were granted Academy status by the FA Premier League in 1999. As a result, teams were entered into specialised Under-19 and Under-17 leagues, with those then becoming the Under-18 and Under-16 divisions following a restructure in 2004. Further changes were announced in 2012 by the Premier League with the implementation of its Elite Player Performance Plan. As part of the EPPP, an additional Under 21s and subsequent Under-23s league were introduced with the aim to bridge the gap between the first team and Academy levels. The Potters were granted Category One status as part of the shake-up following significant investment by the Coates family, thus boosting prospects of achieving sustained success at the highest level in the long term future.
THIS WEEKENDS FIXTURES Barnton v Cammell Laird 1907 Brocton v Alsager Town Cheadle Heath Nomads v Stafford Town Eccleshall v Cheadle Town Ellesmere Rangers v Abbey Hey New Mills v Sandbach United St Martins v West Didsbury & Chorlton Stockport Town v Maine Road Wythenshawe Amateurs v Abbey Hulton United FC Isle of Man v Rocester
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1ST TEAM PLAYER PROFILE
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Date of birth: 14/03/1990 Weight : 12Stone 5lb Height: 6ft Last club played for: Congleton Town Club you Support: None Favourite player past : Brazilian Ronaldo Favourite player now: De Bruyne Favourite manager: Sir Alex Favourite music: Any
TEAM MATES
Least intelligent: Sam Wytcherley Worst dressed: Adam Lawrence Fastest: Sam Wythcherley, best of a bad bunch Last one to get a round in: Kev Who is Punching: Gricey has done well to be fair
2021/22 Fixtures Date Sat 31/07/21
Opposition
St Martins
H/A
A
Score
D 2-2
Mon 03/08/21
Rocester
H
W 2-1
Thu 07/08/21
Barnton
H
W 3-1
Sat 14/08/21
New Mills
A
L 2-3
Tue 17/08/21 Sat 21/08/21 Sat 28/08/21
Brocton Abbey Hey Cammell Laird 1907
A H A
L 0-1 L 1-3 W 2-0
Mon 30/08/21 Fri 04/09/21
Sandbach United Maine Road
H H
L 0-5 W 3-2
Fri 07/09/21 Tue 11/09/21
Stafford Town
Atherstone Town
Sat 18/09/21
Cheadle Heath Nomads
Sat 25/09/21
Stockport Town
A
L 2-3
Wed 02/10/21
Cheadle Town
H
W 3-2
H
H
L 1-3 L 3-8
AL 0-2 AL 1-2 (The Buildbase FA Vase 1Q)
HW 3-1
Fri 09/10/21 Sat 16/10/21
West Didsbury & Chorlton
FC Isle of Man
Sat 23/10/21
Sat 30/10/21
Eccleshall Ellesmere Rangers
AW 1-0 AL 2-4
Fri 06/11/21 Mon 10/11/21
Alsager Town Stoke City
Sat 13/11/21
Sat 20/11/21
Sat 27/11/21
Mon 04/12/21 Fri 11/12/21
Sat 18/12/21
Mon 27/12/21 Mon 08/01/22 Sat 15/01/22
Sat 22/01/22
Sat 29/01/22
Mon 05/02/22 Fri 12/02/22
Sat 19/02/22
Sat 26/02/22
Tue 05/03/22 Sat 12/03/22
Sat 19/03/22
Sat 26/03/22
Fri 02/04/22
Wythenshawe Amateurs
Brocton Cheadle Town Stockport Town Barnton St Martins New Mills Maine Road Cammell Laird 1907 West Didsbury & Chorlton
Alsager Town Eccleshall Stafford Town Cheadle Heath Nomads
Ellesmere Rangers Rocester Wythenshawe Amateurs
Abbey Hey Sandbach United FC Isle of Man
AL 0-1 H (Staffordshire Senior Cup 1) A H A H A H H A H A H H H A H A H A A A
Goalscorers Jamie Turner (16) Joshua Bristow (24) Lee Cropper (57) Own Goal (73) Keeylin Thomas (39) Lee Cropper (53) Lee Cropper (65) Lee Cropper (12)
Fitzroy Butler (61) Lee Cropper (87)
Tyler Barnes (54) Keeylin Thomas (67) Lee Cropper (51)
Anthony Malbon (67)
Jamie Turner (82) Lee Cropper (7) Lee Cropper (12)
Tyler Barnes (38)
Kevyn Davies (42) Tyler Barnes (42) Lee Cropper (71) Jamie Turner (19) Lee Cropper (22) Jamie Turner (58) Joshua Bristow (54p) Jamie Turner (14) Fitzroy Butler (64) Fitzroy Butler (90) Sam Wytcherley (60) Zak Hill (56) Daniel Cope (84)
HARDING ELECTRICAL
Players Name Thomas Ashton Tyler Barnes Owen Basford Joshua Beaumont Luke Birkinshaw (GK) Josh Bowden Joshua Bristow Fitzroy Butler Joshua Buxton Adam Catalano Daniel Cope Jack Cotterill Lee Cropper Kevyn Davies Lewis Doughty * Mason Franklin Christopher Gilpin * Nathan Grice Matthew Harrison * Oliver Hickman Zak Hill Thomas Hinton Ethan Holdcroft Mbemba Juwara Patrik Kacer (GK) Dominic Kurasik (GK) Adam Lawrence (GK) Russell Leadbetter Joe Lewis Sam Lewis
Starts
Sub
Goals
3 11 2 1 1 2 14 9 0 14 2 0 17 13 0 0 0 11 3 2 8 2 0 1 0 4 11 0 4 1
0 3 2 0 0 3 1 3 0 3 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 1 4 0 0 1 0 1 0
0 3 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 1 0 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
* Indicates player is no longer a member of the squad
# Indicates player is awaiting International Clearance
2021/22 Player Apperances
Players Name Mathew Majer Anthony Malbon * Nasser Mansour Ben Matthews Liam McHugh (GK) Nathan Mellor Joseph Miles Cole Mohindra Brandon Newell Ashley Newton Kristian Parsons Ryan Pickup Jack Pointon (GK) Jack Pritchard Callum Pugh Louis Seymour George Shaw Billy Silvester William Tams Keeylin Thomas Jamie Turner Thomas Urwin Louis Vincent Declan Wildman Morgan Woolliscroft (GK) Sam Wytcherley
Starts
Sub
Goals
0 4 0 0 0 3 0 0 8 0 0 7 3 1 0 0 1 3 4 9 8 6 1 4 0 11
0 0 0 1 0 4 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 3 5 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 2
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 0 0 0 0 1
* Indicates player is no longer a member of the squad
# Indicates player is awaiting International Clearance
2021/22 Player Apperances
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LAST TIME OUT
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Dominic Kurasik Nathan Broomw Adam Lawrence Robert Hemfrey Adam Catalano Kieran Coates Sam Wytcherley Lewis Macari Joe Lewis Matthew Baker Ryan Pickup Daniel Malone Kevyn Davies Thomas Sparrow Brandon Newell Ibrahim Sy Josh Bowden D'Margio Wright-Phillips Daniel Cope Gabriel Adebambo Jamie Turner Patrick Jarrett Lee Cropper Adam Porter Nathan Grice Douglas Taylor Zak Hill Max McCarthy Keeylin Thomas
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