THE SUNDAY LEAGUE TEAM WHO HAVE BEEN
PROFESSIONALLY FILMING ALL THEIR MATCHES SINCE 1990 !

BARNET SUNDAY LEAGUE CUP DRAWS FOR SEASON 2024-2025 - UPDATED 15.10.24

We are now out of the ROGER JONES SENIOR CHALLENGE CUP (which is a competition for all teams in the League…and the its most prestigious Cup which you can see pictured right) after losing 3-2 to high-flying Division One side Real Menza in the Third Round on Sunday (13th October).

We will now be entered into the JOHN MOTSON JUNIOR CHALLENGE CUP, which is for all teams from Division One downwards. The draw for this competition will probably be made sometime towards the end of October.
Then there is the JUNIOR CUP, which is a knockout competition for teams in Divisions 3 & 4 only. The First Round draw for this competition has now been made and we have been drawn Away to fellow Division Four side London Orient on a date to be arranged. As there are only 8 teams in both divisions, we will be through to the Quarter-Finals if we win this match.

As there are only 8 teams in our Division (due to teams dropping out), we will also be playing in the RICHARD MARTIN MEMORIAL CUP, which will also be for teams in Divisions 3 & 4 only and will be played on a Group basis initially, therefore making up for the missing League fixtures. These fixtures will probably start in February or March (depending on how well teams in those two divisions progress in other Cups). We have been drawn in Group A where our opponents will be North West Wolves (from our Division) and Nissi’s First Team & Camden Union from Division Three. It is unclear at the moment whether there will be six matches (Home & Away) in the Group stage or just three random matches depending on Home pitch availability.

We have also been entered into the Barnet Sunday League’s INVITATIONAL (Knockout) CUP, which is for all teams (in all 8 divisions) who did not enter County Cup competitions this season…in our case because our players didn’t want to travel South of the River !…plus teams who get knocked out in the First Round of the County Cup that they enter. As most County Cup First Round matches are taking place on the 29th September or the 6th October, the draw for this competition will probably be made sometime in mid-October.

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

We are currently looking for sponsorship for a number of our expenses this season including Pitch Fees, Match Balls, Referees Fees, Affiliation Fees and the hosting of this long-running website. This should appeal to local small or medium-sized companies due to our increasing presence on You Tube and the potential for our young squad of 19-year-olds to win many trophies over the next few seasons.

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.

•  NEW KIT & RAIN JACKETS SPONSORSHIP
•  OTHER SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

OUR PREPARATIONS FOR SEASON 2024-2025

Due to most of our players having extended holidays or weekends away throughout July & August, we were only able to arrange two midweek Pre-Season Training sessions and have one Pre-Season Friendly before we played our first League match of the season against East City on the 8th September. We lost that Friendly 6-1 to a Step 3-4 Semi-Pro-quality side, but it was a good experience for us to play against opponents of that calibre. We were also unable to arrange a Club Presentation evening for last season, but we have now appointed one of our group of 19-year-olds in Max Francis to become our Social & Sponsorship Secretary with a view to resurrect that event and other functions as we make further attempts to get our youngsters to largely run the club themselves, which was what we did back in the 1970’s when the club was first founded by teenagers and we had no parents involved whatsoever. Although Club Chairman, Secretary & Cameraman Laurence Hughes will still be doing all the admin work and Mike Jordanou (father of our defender Chris) has been appointed to make sure players pay their subs, Josh Wakeford will still be our Team Manager with support from Harry Dorward and Captain Charlie Savage, while other regular players will all muck in helping out as well, thereby creating a really good team spirit. Although parents and older ex-Committee members are still welcome to come along and watch, we will be making a concerted effort to stop the loud angry shouting from our touchline that marred some of our matches last season and also let Josh and the players conduct the team-talks themselves without any interference. This organisational responsibility will help our young players to become more assertive in their everyday lives and help them progress at work or in their further studies at University.

We will be using a different Home pitch this season as the changing rooms have been boarded up at Enfield Playing Fields and the pitch we used over there last season is in poor condition. We will now be using Pitch 3 at Clowes Sports Ground in Winchmore Hill instead and we used that pitch for the first time on Sunday 22nd September when we beat North West Wolves 6-3 in a Roger Jones Challenge Cup match.

As for our squad this season, we have lost forward Harvey Antoniou who has joined his family’s new team Enfield Alphas in the bottom division, while Gianni Dipo (who missed last season through injury anyway) has now moved to live in East London/Essex. We have had some good new players join during the Summer to boost the squad in Archie Madden-Brine, Max Melandri, Leo Panayiotou, Renaldo Michael & Marco Costi, while Sam Pritchett, Natan Pawlaczyk and possibly one or two others are aiming to be available more regularly this season which will make the squad much stronger as we start our first season up a level in Division Four.

CROWDFUNDING SPONSORSHIP

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 a £25.00 signing-on fee and then £5.00 per match.

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.
The link to our GoFundMe campaign where you can contribute with an online payment is https://gofund.me/b6a18645 or you can scan the QR code to take you to the donation page.

BARNET SUNDAY LEAGUE DIVISIONS & SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS FOR SEASON 2024-2025

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.
There is a League website HERE which is a bit out-of-date but will hopefully be updated at some stage during the coming season.
CLICK HERE for the League’s Twitter (‘X’) page.
CLICK HERE for the League on Instagram.

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).

0