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Benfleet are a football club based in South East
Essex, England, situated in the district of Castle Point. The area is
bordered by Basildon on the west, Southend on the East, and falls
between the main London Southend Roads of A127 and A13.
NEWS
30/11/2007
Last
update 14/11/2007
News
as at Thursday 14th June 2007
Saturday 1st & 2nd
Teams
Benfleet
Football Club are looking forward to an exciting 2007/08 season. The 1st
Team find themselves back in the top division of the LFC Insurance
Group Essex Olympian League, now renamed the Premier Division. The
last time we played in the top flight was in season 1995/96, and our
only championship year was 1988/89, although we did finish 2nd
in seasons 72/73, 73/74 & 81/82. All that success was a long time
ago but I know that Ben & Steve believe the team can do themselves
and the club proud this year. So may be we can expect to be
challenging for a top 5 finish at least.
Saturday Vet’s
The
Vets continue to run two teams in the Essex Ridley’s Veterans League
on Saturday’s. New players are always welcome, especially if they
are young Vet’s. Is that a contradiction in terms?
Youth Teams
We
are pleased to announce that Danny Clare’s Under 16 team will be the
first Benfleet youth team to play in the Eastern Junior Alliance
League. For the first time the league have been allowed to include
youth teams from Step 7 clubs (ie intermediate). As Benfleet have
often lost players and teams to this league in the past, it is
pleasing that we can now compete. It is also pleasing that we have a
team capable of competing at this higher level. Danny will be holding
Trials for this team, and details will be put on the web-site, once
date and times are known. Now we can offer this route, we hope to
improve the standard of our older players and develop a true feeder
system to our 1st & reserve Olympian league teams.
Joining
this league demands greater commitment from players and management.
The games are against stronger teams, players have to react as senior
players, and the travelling for games involves much longer distances.
However, the boys should be playing on better pitches with better
officials in charge of the games.
Of
our youth teams the U14’s were probably the most successful, with
the ‘A’ team managed by Dave Saxton winning the Premier Divison of
the Southend & District League,
and narrowly losing in the semi-final of the Essex County Cup.
Additionally John Taylor’s U14 B team won Division 2 of the Southend
& District League and gained promotion to Division One.
Ladies Team
The
Ladies team are preparing for their second season in the Essex County
Women’s League. They found the inaugural season to be hard in terms
of regular commitment, but rewarding as they improved a great deal
through the season. The team are still looking to appoint a long term
coach and manager, although for the immediate future Dave Dady will
continue to help the team.
Mini-Soccer
The
Mini-Soccer section is developing well, and we currently have around
40 players under the age of 8 who train at the club each Saturday
morning. This will form the basis of our U7 & U8 teams this
current year. Our under 9 and under 10 teams are both hoping to run an
additional team for the coming season, so any new players in this age
group are welcome.
Girls
section
We
continue our aim to eventually run a girl’s team in the mini-soccer
league. A number of girl’s currently train with our Academy on a
Saturday morning
9:30 – 11:00 am. Newcomers are always welcome.
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