2008 end of season honours for our student footballers

HE students and staff play a big role in the end of season honours:
Congratulations and good luck:

FA Trophy Finalists

To Ben Purkiss (York - current) who will be playing for York City in this years FA Trophy Final at Wembley v Stevenage on 9th May.
To Peter Vincenti (Liverpool Hope - 2007) who will be playing for Stevenage Borough in the FA

Trophy Final

Conference North League winners

To Alex Rodman (Notts Trent - current) and Bradley Pritchard (Loughborough- current) who last night played in the Tamworth team that won the Conference North and will be playing in the Blue Square Premier next season.

Conference North players in play off places

To Andy Brown (Loughborough, Bedford - current) who will be playing for AFC Telford in their bid to make the Conference
To Tom Curtis (Loughborough) , Matt Wilson (Sheffield Hallam - 2008) who will be playing for Alfreton in their bid to make the Conference for the first time

Conference South players in play off places

To John Scarborough (Canterbury - 2008) who will play for Hampton and Richmond Borough in the South play offs.
To Toby Little (Brunel - current) who is playing for Hayes and Yeading in the play off fixtures.
To Ashley Nicholl (Anglia - current) will play for Maidenhead United in the playoff.

Unibond Premier play off places

To Anthony Church, Kieran Murphy and Daniel Sleath (Loughborough - current) will play for Ilkeston Town in the clubs bid to get to step 2.
To Charlie O'Loughlin (Notts Trent - current) and Michael Lennon (Crewe - 2004) will play for Nantwich Town.
To Aaron Ratchford and Alun Griffiths (Leeds - current) who will play for Guisely in the play offs.

Southern League play off places

To Marc Richards, Michael Symons (UWE Hartpury - current) and Will Morford (UWE Hartpury - 2008) will be playing for Gloucester City.

Lower down

Midland Alliance

To Adam Cunnington (Northampton - current) has been on loan from AFC Stamford to Midland Alliance Barwell where they have finished second.

Southern League Midlands League

To Gareth Dean (Loughborough - current) who is at Nuneaton Town who have finished second in the now in the play offs.

Unibond South Divison

To Andy Rushbury (Notts Trent - current) will be playing for Belper Town in bid to get into the Premier
To Marquin Smith (Notts Trent - current) will be playing for Carlton Town.

April Football and Futsal news

BUCS Futsal

This years event in Sheffield was a great success and showed that Futsal had moved on in a very short space of time in HE in both the Men's and the Women's games. Leeds Met won the Women's competition and UWE Hartpury won the Mens.
We are just in the process of looking at potentially setting up a development group from the teams that have been taking part in the competition for both Men and Women. Watch out for this in the summer term

National League Futsal

This year sees UWE Hartpury join Loughborough and Bath in the National League. Bath and UWE are in the Midlands Conference and Loughborough are in the North. It would be great to see one (if not more!) make it to the National Finals in October.

FA Futsal Cup

This year the Futsal cup will see HE at the fore of the competition with Leeds Met and Worcester qualifying by the BUCs competition for the Men and Leeds Met and Loughborough for the Women. It would be hoped that Loughborough, Hartpury and Bath would join them from National or Regional league play offs.

Domestic BUCS Competition

This month sees the Championship Finals at Loftus Road. The Women's Final is at 1230 and is between Leeds Met and Northumbria. The Men's final is between Loughborough and the Champions if last two years UWE Hartpury with kick off at 530. This will see the end of this years Domestic competition.

England Universities programme

This year the squad have already played Leicester City winning 3-1. On Wednesday (8th April) a group of the England players will play Scotland at Sheffield United at 2pm. We also have another group travelling to Guernsey to play the Guernsey FA on the 27th April. The squad will depart from Gatwick on 27th and return on 28th. This fixture has been supported by the
Guernsey FA which we are really grateful.

We also have fixtures confirmed to be played against Crystal Palace and Wigan Athletic between 27th and 12th May. We may look to tie in the Wigan fixture with the BUCS football Development Conference on 7th May.

World University Games

Funding has been agreed and the staff are looking at pulling together a squad to travel to Belgrade this summer.

BUCS Football Development Programme

On the 7th May their will be a BUCS Football Development Programme held at Liverpool FC. We are hoping to also play Wigan Athletic on 6th or 8th May so that people can possible come and see the Rep programme in action.
Trust you are all well
James