Abbey Hulton Utd vs Cheadle Town FC

Abbey Hulton United FC Abbey Hulton United FC vs

Cheadle Town FC Saturday 2nd October 3:00 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.

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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Welcome to Cheadle Town FC Cheadle Town was formed in 1961 as Grasmere Rovers playing in the Manchester & District Sunday Football League in their Under 16s Division. As the team developed the Under-21 Championship was won in 1968, followed by the Premier Division title two years later.

In 1972 the club made the significant decision to play their football on Saturdays and joined the Manchester Football League. Success on the playing field coincided with the arrival of Albert Pike as manager in 1978. In Albert’s first, full season he led the team to a terrific double of First Division Champions and Manchester Amateur Cup Winners; this was the prelude to even more success as the club won both the Manchester & Derbyshire F.A. Cups.

Grasmere Rovers moved into their own ground at Park Road Stadium in 1982 and, a year later, changed their name to Cheadle Town when they also joined the North West Counties Football League. Membership has mainly been in the Second Division but in 1996 the club was promoted to the First Division. Sadly, relegation back to the second tier occurred in 2001, a position they still occupy in the nownamed First Division.

Park Road Stadium itself has a fine history with, initially, Cheadle Rovers being the owners. On their demise Manchester City used it as their training ground.

Portugal, along with Eusebio trained there during the 1966 World Cup and, in 1993, the world-famous Brazilian player, Jairzinho, hosted a Soccer School for Cheadle Town.

Floodlights were installed in 1995 and Manchester United provided the opposition for the official ‘switch-on’ when, on a memorable evening, Town beat United’s youngsters, 3-2 in front of almost 2,000 fans.

The biggest gate to watch Cheadle Town on domestic soil came ten years later against FC United of Manchester. Due to the huge interest in the game Town officials moved the fixture to Stockport County’s Edgeley Park, and they were rewarded with a bumper 3,227 attendance that witnessed a pulsating 3-3 draw.

The club is famous for its legendry foreign tours, having played 96 games in 30 different countries in front of over 312,000 fans and scoring 111 goals.

Welcome to Cheadle Town FC Playing under their tour name, Manchester AFC, they have played against SEVEN national sides and once played in front of 65,000 people in Mexico City’s worldfamous Aztec Stadium. Their epic journeys have taken them just over 210,000 miles all over the world.

Alfredo di Stefano, Ronnie Biggs, Brazilian superstar Jairzinho and Rajiv Ghandi have all met the touring side as exotic locations such as Cannes, Acapulco, Rio de Janeiro, the Bahamas and Phuket have mixed with non-exotic places like Dar es Salaam, Haiti and Guangzhou in China.

The club celebrated its 50th birthday in 2011 and, if the next 50 years are anything like the first, then there is a lot of excitement to come. It was at this time that Cheadle Town made the decision to change their kit colours to green which commemorated the colours worn by Grasmere Rover 50 years ago.

Cheadle Town are an FA Charter Standard Community Club acknowledging the most advanced level of club development and football provision.

At the turn of the year in 2018 a new future for the club was heralded when it became part of the Little Sports Group, owned by ex-Cheadle Town player Craig Brennan.

In May 2018 we were awarded a £50,000 improvement bursary from Buildbase that will enable us to realise our vision to improve the matchday experience and develop footballing facilities for the surrounding area.

Our current management duo of Daniel Meadowcroft and Liam Brownhill have brought a plethora of non league experience to the Football Club following their appointment in November 2019. Our form and results improved dramatically and if the season hadn't been cut short due to COVID-19, maybe Cheadle Town could have improved on their 8th position to challenge for one of the top four promotion spots.

Season 2020/21 will bring plenty of optimism as the team look to continue in the same kind of form we witnessed last season as we look to make another challenge for an automatic promotion place.

Cheadle Town FC 2021 /22 season so far

Cheadle Town FC 2021 /22 Player stats Players Name

Enock Amankwaa Craig Barnett Josh Borthwick Michael Brennan (GK) Benjamin Brooks Marcus Burgess (GK) Joseph Collins Stuart Cook Adam Cullen Patrick Davin William Foster Warren Gaskin Harry Hatton Ryan Hibbert Adam Jones Dominic Kennedy Denzel Kuzakwawo Ashley Leather Andrew Lunt Jack McConnell Daniel Meadowcroft Liam Moran Oluwadamilare Olayinka Michael ONeill Morgan Palmeria Stephen Piggott (GK) Jay Smyth Christian Soda Callum Speed Paul Sunderland Jack Timmons * Ryan Usher Miles Vare

Starts

Sub

Goals

3 2 4 1 0 11 10 1 0 9 9 10 1 3 8 1 3 0 6 1 0 8 2 4 0 0 0 10 2 1 3 10 9

4 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 5 4 1 3 0 1 1 0 1 2 2 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 7 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 0

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ABBEY HULTON UNITED FC ANNUAL BONFIRE AND FIREWORKS DISPLAY Gates open at 6pm Bonfire lit at 7pm Fireworks Start at 8pm

Bar and Café will be open.

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