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THE SUNDAY LEAGUE TEAM WHO HAVE BEEN |
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50th ANNIVERSARY DINNER - UPDATED |
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This July saw the club celebrate its 50th Birthday, and to mark the occasion we are organising a big reunion dinner for Friday 18th September at the Penridge Suite, N11 1NL with ex-Nottingham Forest & England defender Des Walker as the celebrity speaker, while current and/or former players will be acting as DJ’s. Tickets are priced at £55.00 each and these are now on sale to current & former club members, their friends & family members and various others with a connection to the club, whether that be Referees, League officials and also players & officials from the many opposing clubs we played on a regular basis over the years. We are aiming for 200 - 250 tickets to be sold, which will then make us a profit and hopefully keep the club going for a few more years yet. A separate page will be created on this website for the Anniversary Dinner after the event, and it will feature a list of the current & former club members that attended, together with plenty of photos & videos from the evening. We hope as many ex-players as possible can attend as it should be a great night. To buy your tickets, please visit https://www.tickettailor.com/events/edmontonroversfc/2126029 or scan the QR code on the flyer above. |
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NEW HOME GROUND FOR SEASON 2026-2027 - NEW |
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Thanks to negotiations made by ‘our unofficial Vets team’ Whitewebbs Vets (who have several players registered with This is a private ground used by Herts Senior County League (Step 7) side Hinton on Saturdays, and unlike our Home ground last season at Enfield Playing Fields, it has changing rooms, showers, toilets, car parking near to the pitch and a clubhouse/bar for our use afterwards. In addition to that, the goalnets will already be up for us, so we will no longer have to bring and put up our own. We have not had proper facilities like this since we were forced to leave the Edmonton Sports & Social Club back in 2023 when Norsemen expanded their Youth section over there, so this new venue should help us attract good new players and keep our existing ones. Due to cricket being the main sport played at Holtwhites, the football pitch will not be available over there until the 27th September and Whitewebbs Vets will be given preference to use it on that date as they have been using the venue for several years. (We will be sharing the pitch with them on alternate Sundays this season). Unfortunately this is only a one-season agreement due to Womens football being given priority for Sundays at Holtwhites from Season 2027-2028 onwards, so we will have to hope that Enfield Council receive some funding to build new changing rooms & toilets at their venues within the next year or so when we are likely to have to return to using a Council pitch. The Holtwhites Sports & Social Club is situated right next-door to Gordon Hill Station, which is on the Great Northern line between Stevenage & Moorgate. For those travelling from Hertford or Cuffley on a Sunday, trains arrive at Gordon Hill at 9.31 & 10.01 am (for a 10.30 am Kick-Off) and for those travelling from Moorgate, Highbury & Islington or Finsbury Park, trains arrive at 9.23, 9.53 & 10.23 am…depending how much of a Pre-Match warm-up you want ! On exiting the station, turn right into an alleyway at the end of the car park which leads into Kirkland Drive and the ground is at the end of the housing estate. It’s just a five-minute walk from the station exit to the club entrance. If the trains are not running, the W9 bus (from Southgate Tube Station) stops right outside the ground in Holtwhites Hill and the W8 (from Edmonton Green or Enfield Town) stops outside Gordon Hill Station. |
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BARNET SUNDAY LEAGUE DIVISIONS FOR SEASON 2026-2027 |
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The Barnet Sunday Le The ‘mass exodus’ appears to have been caused by two main reasons. Firstly there’s the increasing unavailability of pitches with adequate changing facilities for adult men’s teams in the Boroughs of Enfield, Barnet & Haringey, forcing teams to relocate to other areas (and other Leagues) in order to find a suitable pitch, then there’s the sudden popularity of local 5/6/7-a-side Leagues on Sunday afternoons & evenings as a result of big sponsorships, superb facilities and huge amounts of prize money on offer for winning teams. There is more about this in my latest Chairman’s Blog which reviews last season and the challenges we ourselves face in keeping players interested in playing 11-a-side on Sunday mornings. All the League’s divisions plus fixtures and results can be viewed HERE ON FULL-TIME. Division Two (our division) can be viewed on the League Tables page on this website. CLICK HERE for the League’s You Tube channel (featuring numerous highlights of other teams matches). |
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OUR PREPARATIONS FOR SEASON 2026-2027 |
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This season we will once again be playing in Division Two of the Barnet Sunday League, having finished second from bottom in that division last season and effectively being ‘relegated’ with all the teams finishing above us being promoted to Division One (or folding/moving to other Leagues). Despite that, we have only lost one player from our squad that ended last season, but we do have at least a couple of new signings lined up with certain players now having finished their stints at University. Due to the several major heatwaves over the Summer, we have not done any Pre-Season Training or played any Pre-Season Friendlies yet due to the state of the pitches, none of which have any grass on them at the time of writing (20th August), while the Barnet Sunday League season has now been delayed until Sunday 13th September because of that. Much will depend on our 50th Anniversary Dinner on the 18th September. If our current players all attend and pay £55.00 for their tickets (which includes their £25.00 signing-on fees for this season) while also encouraging friends & relatives to buy tickets as well, we will make a big profit for the club if we get over 200 people attending in total. A number of former players have already donated additional money to help fund our current team while purchasing their tickets, and there will be several potential major sponsors attending the event who watch our match highlights on You Tube and will fund us if our current team are there on the night. That could mean that we can then operate at the same level as a lot of other clubs in our League where players do not pay to play. |
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LONDON F.A. SUNDAY JUNIOR CUP DRAW FOR SEASON 2026-2027 - NEW |
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We have been drawn AWAY to Orpington & Bromley Sunday League Division Three side Beckenham Rovers Casuals in the First Round of this competition, which has now been re-named the David Wolff Sunday Cup in honour of a former Chairman who passed away recently. This match will be played on Sunday 4th October and we are currently looking at hiring a self-driven minibus to get there as it is a 90-minute journey via the M25 and far too expensive for our young players to travel by train. CLICK HERE to view the David Wolff Sunday Cup draw & results in full on Full-Time. |
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us for emergencies), 
ague have dropped one of their open-age divisions for this season due to numerous clubs either folding or moving to play in other Leagues.
