Abbey Hulton United vs Stockport Town

Tuesday 21st February 2023 Kickoff 7:45 pm ISSUE 19 - 2022/23 SEASON

ABBEY HULTON UNITED VS STOCKPORT TOWN ONLINE MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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.

2023 League GroundHop We are delighted to announce that on the weekend of the 4th March, our game vs Cheadle Heath Nomads has been selected to be part of the NWCFL GroundHop Weekend.

In conjunction with GroundhopUK, the league have staggered seven of the weekends scheduled league games over three days, over the weekend of Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th March inclusive, to encourage the groundhopping community to come and experience a great festival of North West Counties Football This will be the fifth time that the league have done the Groundhop, and after doing clubs in the East Lancashire and Yorkshire areas last year, they are now heading to some of our most southerly based clubs.

The fixtures for the weekend are: Friday 3rd March Ellesmere Rangers v Alsager Town (7.45pm Kick Off) Saturday 4th March Rocester v Sandbach United (11.00am Kick Off) Foley Meir v Maine Road (2.00pm Kick Off)

Abbey Hulton United v Cheadle Heath Nomads (4.45pm Kick Off) Eccleshall v Barnton (7.45pm Kick Off) Sunday 5th March Brocton v Stockport Georgians (11.45am Kick Off) Stafford Town v Abbey Hey (2.30pm Kick Off)

WELCOME TODAY TO

stockport town fc Stockport Town Football Club began life back in February 2014 and developed a first-team squad in preparation for the 2014/15 season. The club, lead by manager, Calum Sykes, proceeded through a campaign of friendly fixtures and the club's first ever non-competitive match came against Stalybridge Celtic on 12th July 2014, and despite losing 5-0 at Stockport Sports Village, the club had begun its journey.

The club, nicknamed The Lions, competed throughout the 2014/15 season against first teams and reserve teams from many different clubs including; FC United of Manchester, Ramsbottom United, Fleetwood Town U21's and Norwegian outfit, Rolvsøy IF. The Lions endured a successful first-ever campaign competing in 35 fixtures home and away ending with statistics of Won: 17, Draw: 8, Lost: 10. The club also completed a 13-match unbeaten run in the middle of the campaign between 13th July - 13th October, including 9 victories.

In May 2015 the club was accepted into Step 6 of the Non-League Pyramid and joined the North West Counties Football League - Division One. The club's first ever competitive fixture came on Saturday 8th August 2015 away at Hanley Town, a match in which Stockport were victorious 3-2, and in doing so recorded their first ever competitve win.

On 15th August 2015 the club competed in their first ever competitve match at Stockport Sports Village, with their opponents on that day, Widnes FC securing a 2-2 draw in front of a then record crowd of 78.

Stockport competed three competitions in their first ever league season including the NWCFL, League Challenge Cup and Cheshire Senior Cup. The club progressed to the semi-finals of the League Challenge Cup before a 3-1 defeat to Barnton FC at SSV, meanwhile Hyde United knocked Town out of the Cheshire Senior Cup in the Preliminary Round.

As the season came to a close Stockport secured a playoff spot in the First Division with a match to spare in the NWCFL. Town came up against Bacup Borough FC in the playoff semifinal at SSV but were defeated 2-0 as Bacup progressed into the 2015 First Division Playoff Final.

During the 2016/17 season, Stockport Town got off to a poor start with 6 points from 6 matches, this proved difficult to turn around up until the New Yaer, when we appointed a new manager, Dave Wild in January. Since this appointment player recruitment improved and results followed suit finishing the season well beating Sandbach 3-1 on the final game of the season.

With the foundations in place, Dave Wild is optimistic that with his summer recruits, including Ash Stott, we are looking forward to a successful season.

Today's Opponents LEAGUE SEASON SO FAR P

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LEAGUE POSITION

CLEAN SHEETS

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TOP SCORER 24 SCOTT MCGOWAN

DISTANCE FROM PERSHALL PARK : 47.2 MILES

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ABBEY HULTON UNITED 22/23 PLAYER STATS

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

MAINE ROAD (A) FOLEY MEIR (A) ECC 2S ALSAGER TOWN (A) MCUP 1 STOCKPORT TOWN (A) BARNTON (H)

november 05.11 12.11 19.11 22.11 26.11

ASHVILLE(A) CHEADLE HEATH NOMADS (A) ECCLESHALL (H) MCUP R2 ASHVILLE (H) WYTHENSHAWE AM (H) ECC 3S

december 03.12 06.12 17.12 20.12 26.12

NEW MILLS (A) MAINE ROAD (H) BARNTON (A) ALSAGER TOWN (H) ROCESTER (A)

january 21.01 24.01 28.01 31.01

SOUTH LIVERPOOL (A) MCUP3 SANDBACH UNITED (H) FOLEY MEIR (A) ABBEY HEY (A)

febraury 04.02 11.02 18.02 21.02

ELLESMERE RANGERS (H) WYTHENSAHWE AM (H) SANDBACH UNITED (A) STOCKPORT TOWN (H)

march 04.03 11.03 18.03 25.03

CHEADLE HEATH NOMADS (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)

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Tonight's fixtures Abbey Hey v Barnton Abbey Hulton United v Stockport Town Alsager Town v Cheadle Town Cheadle Heath Nomads v New Mills Ellesmere Rangers v Stafford Town Foley Meir v Brocton Stockport Georgians v Wythenshawe Amateurs Ashville v Eccleshall

RESERVES UPDATE

UPCOMING FIXTURES Walsall Phoenix (H) 25/02 KICKOFF 2:30PM Leek CSOB (A) 01/03 KICKOFF 7:30PM Leek CSOB (H) 11/03 KICKOFF 2:30PM

DOMINIC KURASIK (GK) MORGAN WOOLLISCROFT (GK) OLIVER SCOTT (GK) MATTHEW BERKELEY JOSH BOWDEN JOSHUA BRISTOW FITZROY BUTLER DANIEL COPE LEE CROPPER KEVYN DAVIES AIDEN DWYER JACK FLANAGHAN MAX GARDNER ERIC GRAVES JACK GUMBLEY SAMUEL HALL ZAK HILL JOEL IGWENWANNE JONATHAN KAPEND KIERAN LAZENBY JOE LEWIS REAGAN LYMER DURELL MANHERTZ JOSHUA MARTIN OLIVER MCKAY LIAM ROBINSON THEO STAIR WILLIAM TAMS KEEYLIN THOMAS MATTHEW WARD JACK WELDON JAMIE WELDON JHARRELL WILLIAMS SAM WYTCHERLEY

ZAK OLIVER (GK) JOSHUA SCHOFIELD (GK) MILAN ALLISON KEITH BANDA WILLIAM CALLIGAN JACK CLARK BEN DARBY COLE DEWHURST MICHAEL ELSTONE KYLE FOLEY TOBIAS GREEN SAMUEL HARE MUSA JOBE KAI JOHNSTON SCOTT MCGOWAN LEWIS MCKINNEY DANIEL MCLAUGHLIN HARLEY MONAGHAN THOMAS MORRIS JOSHUA OSIFO MICHAEL RAYNES MATTHEW RUSSELL WILLIAM SHAWCROSS LEANDRO TANSWELL VARGAS PAUL TURNBULL JAMIE WALSH JAMIE WRENCH

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