St Ives Town Reserves are up to third in the Cambs League Senior B table after a 2-1 victory at Abingdon United.

Goals from Peter Anderson and James Webb was enough for the Ives to get maximum points and are now just two points behind second place Hartford Rangers. Sawston United are top, currently six points clear of Hartford.

The reserves are next in action when they host Sawston Rovers this Saturday, 23 November.

The latest draw of the St Ives Town 150 Club took place on Saturday at the game against Redditch United and the winners were:

1st: John Birt – wins £150.00

2nd: Mike Robinson – wins £100.00

3rd: Dave Finkle jnr – wins £50.00

The next draw will take place on Saturday 16 November following the Leiston game. There are still some numbers available and if you would like to take part, please contact Phil Moore: phil.moore01@btinternet.com

St Ives Town Reserves were defeated by Cottenham United in their latest Cambs League Senior B clash on Saturday.

Despite the 4-2 away defeat, the result sees the reserves remain fourth in the table. The scorers for the Ives were Will Hutley and Jude Sedgwick.

The reserves are next in action on Saturday (9 November) when the Reserves host Over Sports Reserves at the Quattro-Tech Westwood Road with a 3:00pm kick-off.

St Ives Town Reserves have moved up to fourth in the Cambs League Senior B Division as they recorded a 6-2 victory over Fordham.

The star of the show was Alfie Shepherd who bagged a hat-trick. There was also a brace for James Webb and Evan Watkins also got on the scoresheet. The Ives are level on points with third place Thurlow who are both two points behind second place Hartford Rangers. Sawston United are top and they will be the next opponents for the Reserves, albeit in the Percy Oldham Cup next Saturday afternoon, 26 October. The match is at Sawston, and will take place at Spicers Sports Ground at 3:00pm.

The club are very excited and proud to announce a fantastic new partnership deal with Autoglazing Ltd of Huntingdon as our main Everdell Stand sponsor. Autoglazing are a hugely respected business with a brilliant reputation which has been built up over many decades. 

They provide a complete windsreen replacement and repair service for all vehicle types from family saloon cars to lorries, to buses, to agricultural vehicles, to public utility vehicles. Autoglazing are part of a UK wide windscreen service, approved by all UK insurers, can normally offer same day fitting and technicians can visit the customer any time by prior arrangement.

Mark Taylor SITFC Commercial Director commented; ‘This is brilliant news for the club to have another fantastic local company supporting it and helps massively to cement it’s continued growth and development. The new signage on the stand is first class and really adds to the professional look of the ground.’

Andy Hodge Autoglazing Owner and Managing Director stated; “We are very proud of our new partnership deal with St. Ives Town F.C. and we look forward to a successful working relationship in the future.”

St Ives Town reserves recorded an excellent victory on Saturday as they won 3-0 at home to Swavesey Institute.

There was a brace for Dylan Parry-Jones with Marklon Johnson netting the other. The result moves the Ives up to third in the Cambs League Senior B table, three points behind Thurlow who have played a game less.

The reserves are next in action on Saturday when they host Warboys Town Reserves in the Intermediate Cup with the next league match being a home game against Fordham on 19 October.

The club are very excited and delighted to announce the continuation of it’s fantastic and very important partnership with Buzz Studios and it’s related companies which has built up and developed over many years. The Buzz Group comprises:

Buzz Studios – The marketing services agency/platform for businesses harnessing cutting edge AI technology to deliver powerful search engine optimisation, social media marketing, website design and creative advertising solutions.

What’s The Buzz Magazine – High quality local market leading topical magazine also offering invaluable advertising exposure to businesses in the local community.

Cambridge Hamper Company – Proudly working in partnership with skilled artisans, producers and manufacturers in the local community to create exceptional food and beverage hampers that travel all over the world.

Mark Taylor SITFC Commercial Director commented – ‘Brilliant news for the club to have Jon and his Buzz Team continue their invaluable relationship with the club covering many different support/advice strands. They have also provided fantastic and cutting edge support to the various businesses I have been involved with over the years.’

Jon Orchard Buzz Studios Founder said ‘I’m delighted to continue our close working relationship with St Ives Town Football Club, Mark Taylor, Paul Reason and all involved at the club’.

English football unites this weekend to promote Play Safe – the national campaign to focus attention of the vital importance of safeguarding across our game.

St Ives Town Football Club is right behind Play Safe, which is endorsed by the NSPCC and supported across every level of English football, including the Premier League, EFL, Barclays Women’s Super League, Barclays Women’s Championship, men’s and women’s National Leagues and across the grassroots game.

Paul Reason, Chairman of St Ives Town Football Club said “As a club we are totally committed to ensuring the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people. The Play Safe campaign is an excellent initiative that the club is proud to be supporting.”

As Sue Ravenlaw, The FA Head of Safeguarding says: “The central push behind this year’s Play Safe weekend is to create awareness among individuals of the vital safeguarding role they can play in football. It really is about Everyone Everywhere, Every Time.

Play Safe weekend is a fantastic way of raising the awareness of safeguarding and putting this at the forefront of people’s minds, not just for this weekend, but throughout the season. This year, we’re asking everyone to know their role in safeguarding and we look forward to seeing clubs at every level of the game showing their support across the weekend, to make sure football is safe, fun, and enjoyable for all.”

Crucially, Play Safe also has the full support of The FA’s Survivor Support and Safeguarding Advisory Group: “It’s essential that everyone in football – no matter if they’re actively involved, or on the sidelines – understands that they have an ongoing safeguarding role to play. Obviously Play Safe is 24/7 and 365, as is reflected in the Play Safe messaging of ‘Everyone, Everywhere and Every time’, but this weekend helps with raising awareness of how everyone can help to create safe and positive football spaces, what inappropriate behaviours look, sound, and feel like and importantly how to report concerns.”

If you have a safeguarding concern, or would like some advice, the person to contact at St Ives Town Football Club is club secretary, Marina Howlett sitfcsecretary@aol.com

For more information visit https://www.englandfootball.com/playsafe.

St Ives Town FC are very proud and delighted to confirm the continuation of their great partnership deal with Cambridge Sensotec Ltd. and their Dynascan division as first team home kit sponsor for the 2024/25 season and back of home and away kits as well.    

SITFC Commercial Director Mark Taylor commented; ‘we have had Cambridge Sensotec as a great partner/supporter for many years now and this has been critical in enabling the club to both be stable and continue to thrive for the past decade or more. It is brilliant to have such long standing support.’       

Mark Swetnam Cambridge Sensotec’s Managing Director added; “once again we are delighted to renew our sponsorship with St Ives Town at a further enhanced level. It is important that we grow the relationship as Sensotec grows as a business.  As we enter our seventh consecutive year as first team home and away shirt sponsors, we look forward to another great season after an amazing top ten finish last season.  It is great to see so many senior players have committed to stay at the club to form the backbone of the squad for the new season and there are some exciting additions to strengthen the team in what is hopefully a campaign to get into contention for the playoffs this season.”  

“As always I want to thank Chairman Paul Reason and his board of directors for overseeing this amazing progress at the club, and send our best wishes and hopes for a great season to our gaffer, Ricky, and his support team. We have some new interesting places to visit and some new teams to welcome at Westwood Road in the 24/25 season and we look forward to seeing everyone old and new at the ground soon. Up the Ives!”

St Ives Town reserves were involved in a feast of goals as they opened their Cambs League Senior B programme with a 4-4 draw at home to Histon Reserves on Tuesday night,

The Ives goals came from Marklon Johnson, Jude Sedgwick, Evan Watkins and James Webb as they secured a point.

Their next match is at home to Sawston United on 07 September with a 3:00pm kick-off. As usual the lads welcome your support so please come down and give them a cheer.

For our first home game of the season, we welcomed representatives from the Padded Seat to the Quattro-Tech Westwood Road. The Padded Seat purchased a hospitality package and nominated Alex Collard as their Player of the Match. The Padded Seat have an online presence where they review VIP and hospitality packages at football clubs and then produce a short film showcasing their experience at the club they have visited. The video below is all about their experience visiting our Quattro-Tech Westwood Road home. We would like to thank them for showcasing St Ives Town and we hope they enjoyed their visit!

The fixtures for the reserve team for the 2024/25 season have been announced. Once again, the Ives second string will be playing in the Gowing and Hunt Cambs League Senior B. Their league programme starts on 27 August when they host Histon Reserves with a 7:45pm kick-off. There are two more home games thereafter against Sawston United and Hartford Rangers. Sawston United will be their opponents again, but this time in the first round of the Percy Oldham Cup. This will take place on 26 October. The reserves finish their league campaign with a home match against Cottenham United on 3 May. The full list can be view HERE

Our award winning hospitality is available to book for our first home game of the season on Monday 12 August when we entertain Lowestoft Town at the Quattro-Tech Westwood Road. The full details are below

St Ives Town have launched a new online ticketing service ahead of the new season.

Tickets can be purchased in advance for all home matches and those who opt to do so, will avoid queues at the turnstiles on matchdays. Later this week additional services will be added inclusive of the option to make donations, buy merchandise and hospitality.

Commenting on the launch, Ives Chairman Paul Reason said “We have been looking to launch an online ticket service for a while to enhance the matchday experience. Many other clubs at our level provide this service and I am delighted that we have got this up and running ahead of the new season”.

The link to the online ticketing page is on the home page of the website. Alternatively, it can be found HERE

St Ives Town Football Club has officially opened a new community cafe at their Quattro-Tech Westwood Road ground.

The catering facility was funded through a grant the club received from the Mick George Community Fund.  The grant enabled the club to transform a previous structure of concrete beams and uprights into a functional and welcoming café.

Works started towards the end of last season and the project, inclusive of the interior fit-out, has been completed on time ahead of the 2024-25 campaign and welcomed its first customers at the Arsenal Legends charity match last weekend.

Ives Chairman Paul Reason said “We are delighted with the new café at the ground.  It provides a great space to offer catering and hospitality to teams using our pitch together with families and supporters.  I would also like to thank Gary Clarke for his excellent work overseeing the project and with the café already proving popular I have every confidence that it will be a success”.

St Ives Town Football Club is looking forward to welcoming a team of Arsenal Legends for a charity match on Sunday 7 July.

The match is billed as St Ives Legends v Arsenal Legends and is taking place to raise funds for Cambridgeshire based charity, Sports Connections Foundation (SCF).  The charity was established in 2010 with the aim of using the power of sport to inspire, empower, educate and transform the lives of children and young people.

Heading up the Arsenal team will be Nigel Winterburn who made over 400 appearances for the Gunners and won League, FA Cup, League Cup and Cup Winners Cup medals whilst he played under George Graham.

The first signing George Graham made when he was manager of Arsenal was Perry Groves, and he looks set to feature along with the likes of David Hillier and Ian Selley.

The Ives team will feature players who have been part of the club in recent years, and hopes are high that Conor Washington who was a prolfiic goalscorer for the club will be be at the game.  Washington transferred from the club into league football when he signed for Newport.  He is currently at Derby County but has made several international caps with Northern Ireland.

Aside from the football, there is a whole host of other activities such as football competitions including a crossbar challenge, bouncy castles, a question and answer session featuring Nigel Winterburn and an auction.

Ives Chairman Paul Reason said “This promises to be a fantastic day.  We are raising money for a really worthwhile charity and I urge lots of people to come out and support it.  As well as the football, there is fun for all the family and the club is incredibly grateful to the Arsenal Legends team for sending many household names and we are looking forward to a great occasion.”

ADMISSION DETAILS

The match takes place at St Ives Quattro-Tech Westwood Road ground and gates open at 11am when all the off the field activities begin.  The match itself kicks off at 3:00pm.  Admission is pay on the day and prices are £5.00 for Adults and £3.00 for concessions. Please note that no tickets are being sold in advance for this match. It is pay on the day.

TIMETABLE OF EVENTS

Doors open at 11:00am.

11:00am – 2:00pm: Football competitions, activities & refreshments

2:00pm: Teams warm-up

3:00pm: Kick-off

3:45pm: Half-Time/Crossbar Challenge. More details on how to take part in the crossbar challenge will be announced on the day.

5:30pm: Ives Director of Public Relations, Andy Dunn hosts a question and answer session with Nigel Winterburn and Conor Washington. Details of how you can take part in this will be announced on the day.

6:00pm: Your chance to bid for souvenir memorabilia from the day.

*Please note that the information above inclusive of timings is subject to change. Please keep revisiting this page for any updates between now and the event.

SPORTS CONNECTIONS FOUNDATION

The match will be raising money for local charity, Sports Connections Foundation. To find out more about the charity, visit their website. The link is HERE. There will be opportunities to donate to the charity on the day of the match itself.

MATCHDAY HOSPITALITY

The club is selling a hospitality package for the game. The cost is £60.00 per person and this includes entry to the match, 3 course lunch served at 1:30pm, drink before and after the game, wine with meal plus a chance to name your man of the match and photo opportunity with the recipient. For more details, please contact Paul Reason: paul@rcostings.co.uk

MATCHDAY CAR PARKING

The main club car park will be closed. Other parking will be available at the adjoining leisure centre and surrounding area.

MATCHDAY PROGRAMMES

The club is selling programmes for the game. These are priced at £2.00 and will be available to purchase inside the ground.

REFRESHMENTS

There will be several refreshment outlets available inside the ground which will be open throughout the day. These include a barbeque.

WHO’S PLAYING??

The Arsenal team will include a number of household names from yesteryear. These include:

Nigel Winterburn

A player who was signed by George Graham in 1987 from Wimbledon where he had been part of a squad that had a meteoric rise to the top flight of English football. After signing for the Gunners, he settled into his left back berth and went on to make over 400 appearances for the club and during his time with Arsenal, he won 3 league titles, 2 FA Cups, 1 x League Cup, and a European Cup Winners Cup medal. He also has 2 caps for England.

Lee Harper

A goalkeeper who was signed by Arsenal from non-league football in 1994. As a third choice keeper he saw his appearances limited and made the move to QPR and later Northampton Town making over 200 apperances for both clubs.

Perry Groves

A player who was first signing George Graham made as Arsenal manager. Arriving at Highbury from Colchester United as a left winger, he became a favourite among fans of the Gunners and went on to make over 150 apperances, winning the title twice and the league cup during his time at the club.

Omer Riza

A player who started his career as a youth with Arsenal and made his first team debut in November 1998 in a league cup tie against Derby County. After a year at the Gunners, he had a spell with West Ham before playing for various other clubs including fellow Cambridgeshire non-league side, Histon for who he made over 50 appearances.

Chris Whyte

A central defender who made over 90 appearances for Arsenal from the late 70’s to the mid 80’s. Playing under Terry Neil, he featured in an Arsenal defensive quartet that included David O’Leary. He gained four England Under 21 caps and after a spell in America, he went onto make his name at various other clubs including West Brom, Birmingham and Leeds United for whom he made over 100 appearances.

Jeremie Aliadiere

A striker who signed for Arsenal at the age of 16. He made a number of appearances in the Premier League for the Gunners, most notably in season 2003-04 when Arsenal won the league title. He then went on to make over 70 appearances for Middlesbrough before returning to French football.

Ian Selley

A midfielder who joined Arsenal in 1990 as a trainee. He made his first team debut at the age of 18. He made over 40 appearances for Arsenal most notably in the 1993/94 season where he collected a medal in the European Cup Winners Cup to go alongside an FA Cup and League Cup winners medal from the previous season.

David Hillier

A midfielder who joined Arsenal as a schoolboy in 1984. He then went on to progress through the Youth and Reserve Team at Highbury before making his debut in a league cup tie in 1990, that was the first of 143 appearances that he made for the Gunners. A former England Under 21 International.

Paolo Vernazza

A player who started his career at Arsenal, but ultimately played only a handful of games for the first team but was in the 1999 Charity Shield squad. He was later transferred to Watford where he made almost 100 appearances.

The Ives Team…..

Whilst we hope Conor Washington will be at the game, he will sadly not feature in the match. However, we are scheduled to welcome back the likes of Niall Conroy, Jamie Alsop, Jordan Lambert, Jimmy Dean and Junior McDougald who plays a lead role at Sports Connections Foundation.

A reminder….

Please check back to this page for updated information between now and the event on Sunday 7 July 2024.

The FA have today published provisional league allocations for the 2024/25 season.

In the PitchingIN Southern League Premier Division Central, St Ives Town will be joined by a mix of clubs who have been promoted or relegated into a division which will consist of 22 teams.

At the end of last season, Long Eaton United, Berkhamsted and Hitchin Town were relegated whilst Nuneaton Borough resigned from the league midway through the campaign. Gaining promotion were Needham Market and Leamington. As part of the provisional allocations, Mickleover have moved laterally to the Northern Premier League.

This means that there are seven teams replacing them for the 2024/25 season. Relegated from the National League North to Southern League Premier Division Central are Banbury United who join Bishop’s Stortford who were also relegated from the same division. Making an immediate return to the division are Bedford Town who were promoted via the play-offs. Also joining the division courtesy of promotion are Biggleswade Town, Harborough Town, Lowestoft Town and Spalding United.

The full provisional line-up is:

AFC Sudbury
AFC Telford United
Alvechurch
Banbury United
Barwell
Bedford Town
Biggleswade Town
Bishop’s Stortford
Bromsgrove Sporting
Coalville Town
Halesowen Town
Harborough Town
Kettering Town
Leiston
Lowestoft Town
Redditch United
Royston Town
Spalding United
St Ives Town
Stamford
Stourbridge
Stratford Town