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BARNET SUNDAY LEAGUE CUP DRAWS FOR SEASON 2024-2025 - UPDATED 18.3.25 |
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The Semi-Finals of the League JUNIOR CUP are due to take place this coming Sunday (23rd March). We will be Away to Division Three side NLR in one of those Semi-Finals, while Camden Lock (from our Division) will face Nissi Firsts (from Division Three) in the other. The League Junior Cup is a knockout competition for teams in Divisions 3 & 4 only, so this is our best chance of reaching a Final. The League no longer use neutral venues (which would have been a churned-up long-grassed Council pitch) for their Cup Semi-Finals, so with NLR being drawn as the Home team, we should be playing the game on their 3G pitch at the New River Stadium in Wood Green at 12.30 pm…if they have that available. Thankfully this coming Sunday is International Break weekend, so an afternoon kick-off time will not clash with Spurs or Arsenal matches. The Barnet Sunday League’s INVITATIONAL CUP competition has now been arranged for teams like ourselves from Divisions Three, Four, Five & Six who have completed (or nearly completed) their League Fixtures already. Initially this competition was going to be drawn in the same way as the Champions League, but due to a lack of Sundays available until the season ends, it is now running as four groups of four teams with the winners of each group going through to the (knockout) Semi-Finals. We have been drawn in Group A alongside AC Finchley (from our division), Racing Keeblers, a mid-table team in Division Five who we have never played before, and East Finchley, who are currently bottom of Division Three. East Finchley have taken the place of Mill Hill Club De Futbol Seconds, who were originally drawn in our group but can no longer field a team whenever their First Team have a match. The winner of Group A will play the winner of Group B in the Semi-Final. The first of our three group matches was played on Sunday 16th March when we drew 2-2 Away to AC Finchley. We would need to win our group and then beat either AFC Edmonton or N Twentyone in the Semi-Finals to reach the Invitational Cup Final, but that Final may well be played in midweek on a Wednesday or a Friday evening in late-April (so that they don’t clash with Semi-Pro Non-League matches & training sessions). We are now out of the JOHN MOTSON JUNIOR CHALLENGE CUP following our 0-4 Home defeat to a very good N Twentyone side in the Second Round on Sunday 9th March. We are also now out of the RICHARD MARTIN MEMORIAL CUP after recent bad weather had caused a backlog of fixtures for numerous teams, meaning the League have had to back-track on their decision to allow all second-placed teams from the Group Stages to enter the knockout phase. That means our Last 16 match at Home to Division One side Maida Villa (a You Tube team like us) will no longer go ahead, which is a real shame. We were knocked out of the ROGER JONES SENIOR CHALLENGE CUP (which is a competition for all teams in the League…and the most prestigious Cup) back in October after losing 3-2 to high-flying Division One side Real Menza in the Third Round. |
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LEAGUE SEASON COMPLETED |
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Due to numerous team We could have finished Runners-Up had AC Finchley managed to field a team against Mill Hill Club De Futbol Seconds on the 9th March and Mill Hill CDF had lost that match and their two other remaining ones, but AC Finchley failed to fulfil the fixture, so Mill Hill CDF were awarded the three points they needed to finish second in the table…and possibly even win the title if they win their last two matches. Unfortunately this sort of thing happens in the Barnet Sunday League at the end of every season once teams have nothing left to play for and we have been guilty of that ourselves in the past when we were in a mess and struggling to field a side. It has been another successful League season for our young team of 19-year-olds though and hopefully a title success will come sooner or later as they get older. |
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DARRYL JOHNSON - NEW 12.3.25 |
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We were given the sad news on Tuesday (11th March) that Darryl Johnson, one of our Greats Of The Past had suddenly passed aw |
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SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES |
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We are curren We also need sponsorship for a new green & black Home kit and new rain jackets. Those will be major sponsorships that will last for a three-year period. We have appointed one of those 19-year-olds, Max Francis to be our Sponsorship Manager and his contact details and all the information regarding these sponsorship opportunities can be found in the following downloadable PDF’s. |
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CROWDFUNDING SPONSORSHIP |
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As our players will all be over the age of 18 this coming season, they will now be expected to pay to play. We will be charging them However, that will still not be enough to fund the club’s expenditure this season without sponsorship & fund-raising, so if friends, relatives and supporters are willing to continue donating to our GoFundMe campaign to boost the club’s funds, that would be much appreciated. This will then enable the club to continue filming, editing & producing our match highlights for You Tube as we have been doing for the past 16 years. |
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BARNET SUNDAY LEAGUE DIVISIONS & SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS FOR SEASON 2024-2025 |
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This season we will be playing in Division Four of the Barnet Sunday League having finished Runners-Up in Division Five last season. All the League’s divisions plus fixtures and results can be viewed HERE ON FULL-TIME. CLICK HERE for the League’s Facebook page. CLICK HERE for the League on Tik-Tok. CLICK HERE for the League’s You Tube channel (featuring numerous highlights of other teams matches). |
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s dropping out of Division Four during the season, we have now completed our League fixtures already following our 5-3 win at Home to Camden Lock on Sunday 2nd March. That win has guaranteed us third place (in a division of only six teams that have finished/are finishing the season), but it should be good enough for us to gain promotion for the second season running as the top three were all close and we finished well clear of teams battling it out for fourth place.
ay aged just 51. Darryl played in goal for us for a 10-year period between 2001 and 2011, making 137 appearances in total. Funeral arrangements for our club members who knew Darryl are in our private Facebook Group. I will include a full tribute in my next Chairman’s Blog at the end of the season.
tly looking for sponsorship for a number of our expenses this season including 
a £25.00 signing-on fee and then £5.00 per match. 
