For the last game of the year, the Moles travelled down the A3 to play Horndean – a side that they haven’t had a good record against this season.
With two goals from Kickie, one from Razhir and a debut goal for Jack Brewer, the Moles were 4-1 winners.
The Moles have their post Christmas game with a trip down the A3 to play Horndean (for the 3rd time this season).
Mathday: Saturday 28th December. KO: 3pm
The club was established in 1887 and only played friendly matches until World War One, after which they joined the Waterlooville & District League. They won the title four times before they joined the Portsmouth League which they also won four times at various levels.
In 1972, they joined Division Four of the Hampshire League and were promoted to Division One by the mid 80s. They joined the Wessex League in 1986 but after finishing bottom of the league in 1994–95, they were relegated back to the Hampshire League, where they remained until rejoining the Wessex League as founder members of the new Division Two in 2004.
In 2010–11 they were promoted to the Premier Division after finishing as runners-up in Division One. The 2022/23 saw the Deans make history with a League & Cup double which saw them promoted as champions to Step 4 for the first time.
The Moles have already played Horndean twice this season. They played each other as their first league fixture this season and Horndean won 4-0. They then played in the FA Trophy when Horndean won 3-0.
Horndean is a village in Hampshire which is 8 miles north of Portsmouth and the village straddles the A3(M). Horndean FC play at Five Heads Park, Five Heads Road, Horndean PO8 9NZ.
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It gives me great pleasure to write these notes on the 1st year anniversary of me joining Binfield FC as your Manager.
Tonight will be our last game at the Iconic Stadium before Christmas, our last home game of 2024. I would like to take this opportunity to wish all the fans, the Chairman, the Executive committee, the admin team, the club house team, the tea hut team, the Grounds Team, the Media Team, all the volunteers, the mascots, the junior teams, a happy, healthy Christmas and prosperous New Year, from the myself, Bully, Bowes, Salil, Rhys, Matt, Carl, Becca & all the players, we all appreciate all your support and everything you do for us as a First Team Family.
A mini review of 2024 – Firstly I hope 2024 has given all of the Mole fans and Mole Community, hope, enjoyment and pride back in the badge of Binfield FC. With Bully, we arrived a year ago to the day, I can tell you all, we have absolutely loved it! The Great Escape & Game against Uxbridge FC on the last game of last season, is the gift only Football gives, a memory I know we all will treasure, for the rest of our football lives.
Since being handed the Reindeer Reins from Andy Cotton on the 23rd December 2023, some other highlights have been; securing our first points and first win of the season for the club, on January 20th against Met Police Away for many reasons not just the win. The 9-1 FA Cup win away to Longlevens FC, a FA Cup record result for the Club is something our team can feel very proud with. The wins against National League Teams Dulwich & Hamlett FC away and Maidenhead United FC at home, in the Cups, both have been great results, to add to the Clubs history books. On November the 30th, Bowes got us to the 50 points mark for 2024, with the win over Harrow Borough FC and a point added against Kingstonian FC, see’s us on 51 points achieved in 37 League games! I believe this is a huge, positive stat to reflect on, a year everyone at the Club can feel proud of in my opinion, as it’s been a huge team effort to have achieved what we have. Be rest assured, we will continue to give everything to make that even better tonight and over the festive season.
Tuesday night saw us travel to Harrow Borough FC. This was yet again, another great resilient performance & great cup win, we saw the return of the legend Ethan Lindo, CJ got another clean sheet & we scored another 2 goals to add to our tally. The result sees us move into the QF of Velocity League Cup, another great achievement in 2024.
Our last home game saw us play Kingstonian FC here at the Iconic Stadium on the 3rd December, the game ended in a 0-0 draw, with 3 players being sent off, 2 for us and 1 for them. CJ made an excellent penalty save & kept another clean sheet, a solid defensive performance from the team and another point in the right direction.
Congratulations to Connor Jeanes for winning player of the month for November, which was fully deserved for his gritty performances, along with him now adding goals to his game, the goal Connor scored against Harrow Borough FC to win us the game, fully deserves to win Goal of the Month, a clean sweep for Connor and I hope his performances continue into December.
An update on me, I’d like to start by saying thank you to everyone at the Club and football community, for all of your kind messages of support to me & my family, I’ve genuinely been overwhelmed. I appreciate I haven’t responded to everyone, as my focus has been to recover, so I apologise for not responding but please note, your message has helped me hugely. I had eye surgery on Tuesday last week on the Cancer on my eye, it wasn’t a nice procedure. I am now waiting on the biopsy results, which I’m praying will come back ok. I am itching to get back to normality & I hope to get back to the Iconic Stadium as soon as I can. However the Chairman has said to me, he will sack me, if he sees me again in 2024! Jokes aside, I can not wait to see everyone.
Rosco
If you have visited the Iconic Stadium and forgotten to get a programme, or you couldn’t attend and just wanted to read the programme – we have you covered.
All of our home programmes are put online after the game. You can find them here.
The Moles Assistant Manager Andy Bullet spoke to the Moles media team after their 2-2 draw against Leatherhead.
For the final home game of the year we welcomed Leatherhead FC to the Iconic Stadium. The Moles thought that they had the 3 points as they were leading 2-1 going into the final minutes of the game thanks to 2 goals from Razhir Smith-Jones. However, Leatherhead snatched a point scoring in the 8th minute of the 4 minutes of injury time !!!
…and we can’t wait to see him back on the touchline in the New Year
The Moles have their last game before Christmas with a home tie against Leatherhead FC.
Matchday: Monday 23rd December. KO 7.45pm
Leatherhead came into being in its’ current form with the merger of Leatherhead Rose and Leatherhead United just after the end of the Second World War. They based themselves at the home of Leatherhead United, Fetcham Grove. This is still there home to this day.
The merger club won the Surrey League four times in a row before moving across to the Metropolitan and District league in 1950.
In the 1970s, they had several runs deep into the FA Cup. In 1974, they beat Colchester in the 2nd round, Brighton in the 3rd round before losing 3-2 away at Leicester City despite being 2-0 up.
They struggled in the early 1980s and were relegated down to Isthmian Division 2. In 2011, they had an extra time win over Dulwich Hamlet to take them back into the Premier Division. They only survived for one season before being relegated back to Division One South. Another promoted via playoffs and relegated places them into the South Central Division.
Last season, the Moles lost 2-0 to Leatherhead in both games. Whilst the 2022/23 will be remembered for a thrilling 2-2 draw on the last day of the season.
Tickets can be purchased on the gate. Please note that we are a cashless stadium. Only card and contactless payment are accepted on the gate, for food and in the bar.
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Address: The Iconic Stadium, Hill Farm Lane, Binfield RG42 5NR
Hill Farm Lane is a modern non-league football ground with parking on site, disabled access and more including:
There are over 100 spaces available to park at the ground.
The Moles travelled to Cobham on a Friday to play Ashford Town. After a poor first half, the Moles were 3-0 down at half-time. They managed to pull one back with a Rahzir Smith-Jones goal with a rebound from a Tyler D’Cruz penalty. That was as good as it got for the Moles as Jamie Hilton was sent off for two yellow cards in the 83rd minute.
Photographer Daisy Spiers was there to capture the action.
The Moles reward for the win over Harrow Borough in the Velocity Cup is a trip to the seaside to play Hastings United.
The game will be played on Tuesday 21st January KO 7:45pm.
Here’s the entire draw:
Hastings United v Binfield
Hashtag United v Chatham Town
Leatherhead v Hendon
Billericay Town v Sheppey United
After their 2-0 Velocity Cup win over Harrow Borough, the Moles are quickly back into action with a Friday night game against Ashford Town.
Matchday: Friday 20th December. KO 7:45pm
Note: This game is being played at Cobham FC
The club was established in 1958 as Ashford Albion and joined Division Two of the Hounslow & District League. They were promoted to the Premier Division in 1964 when they adopted they current name.
They joined the Combined Counties in 1990, the same year that they add Middx to their name to avoid confusion with a club in Kent that shared the same name. They finished as runners-up in 1993–94, and won the league the following season. They then went onto win the league three times in a row and again in 1999-2000 when they were promoted to Division 3 of the Isthmian League.
After a promotion to Division 2, they were then moved around several divisions and league before being transferred to the South Central Division of the Isthmian League at the end of the 2017–18 season.
Over the last 3 seasons, the Moles have won 4 games, Ashford 2 with 1 draw. Last season, the Tangerines won both games with an early season 6-0 win followed by a late season 1-0 win.
Due to ongoing ground work, Ashford are currently sharing with Cobham FC at their Reg Madgwick Stadium.
Tickets: Adults £10, Concessions £5
Address: The Reg Madgwick Stadium, Leg o Mutton, Downside Bridge Road, Cobham, Surrey KT11 3EP
Congratulations to Matt Tweed who made his first team debut against Harrow Borough on Tuesday night.
Matt joined Binfield U17s last season and has been ever-present in our U23 Development Side this year. A role model showing the pathway from our Youth teams to our First XI.
Moles assistant manager Andy Bullet commented “Matt is a great lad. He applies himself in the right manor and enjoys the game. On the right trajectory.”
After a gap of two weeks, the Moles were back in action in a Velocity Cup tie against Harrow Borough. The Moles were 2-0 winners with goals from Dan Lewis and Tyler D’Cruz. We are now into the last 8 of the competition.
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