Our first Friday morning ‘Respect the Ref’ tweet.
Please feel free to share memories and not hate.
Today, we remember the late, great Lol Cussans. The man to whom a polo mint was as important as his whistle…
@PoloMintUKI
@Nestle
@NorthRidingFA
This morning’s reminder to ‘Respect the Ref’ pays tribute to our recently retired official, Mark Granger.
It is great for
@NRCFAREFDEV
that Mark now occupies a role supporting and developing referees.
We ask that you share memories and not hate
Best of luck to all teams today
It’s Friday morning, and once again we ask you to ‘respect the ref’.
Today we thank another long-serving great, the legendary Mel Deighton.
Still always immaculately turned out, he’ll be on duty at Wilberfoss this weekend.
Feel free to share memories not hate.
Enjoy ⚽️
Our weekly invite to ‘Respect the Ref’, and the final one of this season, pays tribute to Alf Greenwood, a long-serving official of the game.
Alf reffed our Senior Cup Final at the LNER Stadium last season, the first competitive football match to be played there.
#respect
Our Friday morning reminder to ‘Respect the Ref’.
Below is Malcom Sunderland, who served the game magnificently for no less than 46 years, of which 43 were with our league. He reffed no fewer than 8 cup finals until retiring in 2018.
Feel free to share memories, and not hate.
This morning’s reminder to ‘Respect the Ref’ highlights the contribution to the local game of Dave Scoreby.
Dave was a great local referee and has continued to be an excellent coach and ambassador for the game.
Share memories, not hate.
Respect others, and enjoy your game.
The final of
@FA
Inter League between
@MinsterFootball
and Alliance Football Combination will be played on Sunday 6th May at Sheffield United's Brammall Lane, kick off 1.00pm.
FA GRASSROOTS FOOTBALL AWARDS
Massive congratulations to The York Football League for winning the national grassroots league of the year award🙌🏻👏🏻
They have been presented with their trophy today at The FA Community Shield
#GrassrootsHeros
@EnglandFootball
The York Minster Engineering League Management Committee would like to wish all of our players, management, volunteers, supporters, sponsors and spectators a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Stay safe, and we look forward to seeing you all at grassroots games in 2022
Congratulations to Dringhouses who defeated Huntington by four goals to two to win the York Senior FA Cup.
Commiserations to Strensall Tigers who have been relegated from the Premier League following two unlikely results.
Kirkbymoorside 3 Thorpe 3
Old Malton 3 Easingwold 4
It is with great sadness that we have to announce the passing of Peter Gibson, our life member and ex League Secretary.
He will be greatly missed and our thoughts are with his family.
We ask our clubs to allow a minute silence, in memory, before the matches next Saturday.
The league structure for the 20-21 season will be :
Premier, Div 1, Div 2, Div 3, Div 4 and 3 reserve divisions.
We welcome the new clubs of Marton Abbey, South Milford, Howden AFC, Elvington Harriers, Thirsk Falcons and the re-entry of Sporting Knavesmire.
A belated ‘well done’ and ‘congratulations’ to our hard-working league secretary, Colin Atkinson, who recently received his award for 50 years service to football.
North Riding FA Chair Barry Casterton presented the award.
A magnificent achievement.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
We are delighted to be recognised as both the
@NorthRidingFA
and
@FA
Grassroots League of the Year.
Thanks to all of our players, club officials, match officials, volunteers and supporters - the people who help our excellent committee to make this league the success that it is.
Welcome to the new clubs joining the league for the 19/20 season
Bishop Wliton
Duncombe Park
Garforth WMC
York St John Univ
York RI.
There will be 56 clubs in the league for 19/20 season.
Club in focus:
Malt Shovel FC
Founded: 2014
Ground: Denison Rd, YO8 8AN
Longest serving player(s): Tom Smith & Darren Moore (Sep 2014 in our 1st game vs Healdfield). Former Captain Mike Cussans debuted one week later.
Unsung hero: Our volunteers. Thanks for your hard work.
Squad for match on Saturday v Kent League:
Mike Clancy
Jamie Wilstrop
Jake Duckworth
Chris Dyson
James Edmond
Sam Pepper
Cammy Mulhearn
Matty Mulhearn
Cam Sanderson
Chris Bilton
Andy Simpson
Sam Lingard
Scott Nichols
Jonny Andrew
Dale Holding
Matt Pallister
This morning’s ‘respect the ref’ features long-serving and hard-working FA stalwart, Paul Ballantyne.
A great servant of our league, Paul has been a mainstay of our top level refs for many years - and always does the important post-match social bit!
Share memories, not hate.
The League is pleased to announce the creation of a Veterans section for the 21/22 season. There will be 2 divisions, playing on a Sunday. The matches commence on 29th August, fixtures are on the league website and FA Full-time.
Football returns to the city this weekend with all of our divisions back up and running.
Hopefully it’s the start of a hassle-free period of football for everyone after the last few crazy seasons.
Best of luck to all our teams for 2022/23.
@MinsterFootball
- A massive congratulations to the managers Chris Smith and Simon Wood, and the players for reaching the FA Inter league Cup Final. Doing the league proud.
We can now announce that the League's Senior and Junior Cup Finals will be held on Sat 12 June at the new Community Stadium. We are planning this event in conjunction with the local Charity
@YorkAgainstCanc
who have recently opened their shop and offices in the Stadium complex
This morning’s reminder to ‘Respect the Ref’ shows our appreciation for another of the good guys out there - long-serving league ref and York FA man, Brian Smith.
Brian has provided excellent service to local football over the years.
Respect, not hate.
Enjoy your games⚽️
Results selection box:
Dringhouses 2 Thorpe 3
Cawood 5 Pock 2
Pollington 4 Duncombe Pk 1
Helperby 3 Fulford 0
Dunno R 3 Pock R 0
Haxby R 3 Osso R 4
One round of fixtures to go until Christmas! ⛄️🎁🎄🎅
Congratulations to Rawcliffe who picked up the club’s first ever piece of silverware with a 1-0 win over Dunnington in the Reserve Cup Final tonight.
Many thanks to
@hrfcyork
for hosting tonight’s final.
Attention now turns to Finals Day at the
@YCFCStadium
on Saturday…
Our reminder this week to ‘Respect the Ref’ could also be ‘Respect the League Sec’ or any other football job for that matter.
He’ll probably hate this post, but we show thanks to a man that has led York Football for many, many years and continues to do so.
Colin Atkinson👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Friday means it’s time to ‘Respect the Ref’, and this week we thank our very own committee man Geoff Hartley.
Geoff is not only a good guy & excellent referee but has key roles with York FA and
@NorthRidingFA
too, developing & supporting new refs.
Share memories and not hate
We send our best wishes to the teams involved in tomorrow’s cup finals and representative game, particularly our refereeing teams, led by Andy Kay, Tony Turner and Colin Woods.
We hope all participants and people attending enjoy their day.
@Turneldinho
@colinwoods5
#Respect
Who is the most valuable player to their team in our premier league? Current statistics show it to be Rawcliffe’s Josh Leeming.
Don’t forget that you can search the divisions’ stats on the Full-time site. Goals, cards, sin bins - they should all be recorded on your team sheet.
With the season entering its final stages, the ultra-consistent
@robbietom93
still heads up the overall scoring charts.
Mark Baggaley is in second with a phenomenal strike rate.
In the prem, Dan Hickey still leads Jonny Bullivant courtesy of spot-kicks.
How our leagues stacked up 30 years ago.
@OsbaldwickFC
flying the flag along with
@BishWhiteRoseFC
, back in the days of an 11 team top flight.
It is much credit to our league and the players, coaches and volunteers of the area that we maintain 8 divisions today.
#Grassroots
The LEAGUE Senior and Junior Cup Finals will be held again this year on SATURDAY 28th MAY at the COMMUNITY STADIUM with proceeds again going to York Against Cancer.
This morning’s ‘Respect the Ref’ shows our appreciation for long-serving Ref and all-round good guy, John Ledgeway.
John has chaired the York RA and remains in post as treasurer, and is a great ambassador for the game.
Let’s cut dissent out of the game and let everyone enjoy it
Squad for the FA match against
@LCPL2012
tomorrow
Clancy
Sanderson
Preston
Whaite
Wrigley
Lock
Nicholas
Cox
Duckworth
Bullivant
A. Simpson
Willstrop
Vass
Robertson
Edmond
Jones
Good luck for the match
Our ‘respect the ref’ this morning delves into the world of show business, with former York Referee and current BBC Radio presenter and compere, Andy Atkinson taking the stage.
A very good referee and a decent bloke to boot.
Enjoy your games, if playing this weekend
#Respect
The Finals Day kick off arrangements are:
12:00 - League Representative Team v F1 Racing
14:00 - League Senior Cup Final : Huntington Rovers v Wigginton Grasshoppers
16:15 - League Junior Cup Final : Pollington FC v Rufforth United
Ticketing arrangement still to be announced
Unlike the scoring charts in many divisions, the top 5 marksmen in Div 3 are all from different teams.
@smilfordfc
’s Tom Micklethwaite-Charles appears to be the only penalty taker amongst them, unless the other sides haven’t been awarded spot kicks?
@AFCHowden
@fulford_united
Club in focus:
Wigginton Grasshoppers FC
Division(s): Prem, Res A
Year Formed: 1982
Ground: John Jeffery Pavilion, YO32 2PY
Longest-serving player: Tom Coates (32BC)
Unsung hero: Richard Carr (treasurer, groundsman, and anything else!)
Three games are planned on the day:-
SENIOR FINAL - Huntington Rovers v Wigginton Grasshoppers
JUNIOR FINAL - Rufforth Utd v Pollington
There will be a "curtain raiser" in the morning with a game between a League Representative side and F1 Racing FC
Early doors kicks offs for the Prem to Div 3 this season.
Where will the silverware end up this year? Not long until the 2023/4 campaign is upon us!
Please make sure your affiliation is done and that all the relevant qualifications (DBS, First Aid, CWO, etc) are in place.
Last night’s results.
Dunnington edged a close match 2-1 with Cawood, as the hosts completed their first premier league match.
It was the same scoreline in the league below with promoted Wheldrake nosing past Strensall Tigers.
Looking for goals?
Here’s our top scoring teams so far this season…
@OldMaltonStMary
’s, arguably the league’s most successful club in recent years, are leading the way along with Div 4 title contenders
@S_Knavesmire
Goals per game would no doubt reshape the table a little…
Update on the Overall and Prem leading scorers…
@AFCHowden
’s Robbie Tomlinson leading the way across the divisions, whilst F1 Racing’s Alex Clark heads up the competition in the top flight.
Congratulations on the three teams admitted to the league last night at the AGM - Hensall Hawks, York Shamrocks and (the re-admittance of ) Hamilton Panthers.
Season kick-off dates:
Premier Division - w/c 23rd August
Other Divisions - Saturday 11th September
Our request to ‘Respect the ref’ this week highlights our former long-serving York League referee, Alan Dennison.
The picture shows Alan receiving the very first Lol Cussans Award from John Ledgeway and Lol’s son Dave.
Share memories, not hate.
Best of luck for the weekend
The initial league fixtures have been published.
The intention is to commence the Premier Division on the evening of Wednesday 2nd Sept.
Divisions 1, 2, 3 & 4 will commence on Saturday 12th Sept, with the intention of the Reserve Divisions commencing on Saturday 19th Sept.
It’s all go this weekend with the fixtures coming thick and fast!
Dunnington vs Osbaldwick, Howden vs Haxby, The Beagle vs Wilberfoss…
You won’t have far to travel in York this Saturday to find a game to watch.
As ever, remember to respect everyone:..football should be fun!
With Sporting Knavesmire boasting Division Four’s top 4 goal scorers, it could be a busy day for the Marton Abbey defenders.
Knavesmire are looking to continue their perfect start having won five out of five conceding just two goals in the process.
Can Abbey keep them at bay?
Game Day..the weather is a bit different to the semi final.
Good luck to the Reps team in the
@FA
Inter League final today against
@NRFLOfficial
at Sheffield United.
#Grassrootfootball
The season starts here.
Lots of questions and no answers, yet.
How good will Airmyn, Riccall and Knaresborough be?
Will The Beagle continue their rise up the ranks?
Is it Haxby’s year for promotion?
Will Cawood take the Premier League by storm?
Only time will tell…
17 years ago tomorrow…
Bacon Factory running riot against Pocklington Town and Rowntrees gaining a 3-0 win over Easingwold in Division One.
Not a tweet or a mask in sight!
One or two of you will remember it like it was yesterday…
#yorkfootballleague
Squad for match against
@OfficialYAL
on Tuesday night (29th) at
@FarsleyCelticFC
Wilson
Sanderson
Duckworth
Green
Luckhurst
Nicholas
Robertson
Simpson
Kennedy
Willstrop
Bilton
Braithwaite
Lock
Edmond
Bullivant
Winn