St Ives Town reserves are out of the Percy Oldham Cup after they lost 1-0 at Sawston United yesterday.

The Ives, who won the competition in 2023, had their task hampered when they were reduced to 10 men following the dismissal of Adrian Hemmings. Ultimately it was the strike from Joe Norton-Palmer for Sawston that separated the two sides and it was the hosts who progress through to the next round.

The reserves are next in action on Saturday (2 November) when they resume their league campaign with a trip to Cottenham United. Kick-off at the King George V Playing Fields in Cottenham is at 2:00pm.

Quattro-Tech Westwood Road is here to stay, a new 2-year deal agreed!

St Ives Town FC are delighted to announce the continuation of our exciting and very successful Partnership with Quattro-Tech Ltd (QT) as our stadium sponsors for the next two years. ‘Quattro-Tech Westwood Road’ is here to stay and will remain widely recognised within the local community.

QT are a major automotive business based in St Ives and were founded in 2013. To have the ongoing great support of such a well-respected, well-established and successful company is outstanding news for the club. The deal will run until the summer of 2026, and they will continue to provide their array of services at discounted rates to all club sponsors and season ticket holders. Discounts will be agreed individually, and sight of a current season ticket is all required to qualify.

Mark Taylor, SITFC Commercial Director, stated, ‘It’s fantastic news for the club to have the continued backing of such a successful and well thought of local business. This really helps to underpin the continued growth and progression of the club. The relationship we have developed with Quattro-Tech has now become so wide-ranging and so important to many aspects of the club.’

Justin Reason, Director at Quattro-Tech, added, ‘QT is delighted to continue our partnership with St Ives Town FC. Supporting the local community is a core part of our ethos at QT. Our recent investment has enhanced the overall matchday experience for fans, resulting in a steady increase in ticket sales—a fantastic outcome for the club and its supporters. We have an excellent relationship with everyone at SITFC and look forward to building on our success in the coming years, driving further progress both on and off the pitch.’

Company Profile

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Quattro-Tech is your main dealer alternative for AUDI, CUPRA, SEAT, ŠKODA, VOLKSWAGEN and VW commercials, using genuine VWG or original equipment parts to service, repair and maintain your vehicle whilst upholding your manufacturer’s warranty and service records. QT can offer a range of performance enhancing upgrades for many of the VWG vehicles through our latest brand, QT Performance. We’ve partnered with industry-leading performance parts suppliers including Revo, RacingLine, Milltek Sport, RamAir, Forge Motorsport and many more. All parts are available to order online on a supply and fit basis.

QT offer a highly competitive, personal and direct service. They deliver exceptional value for money, demonstrate vast knowledge and experience, the latest equipment and a customer-centric approach. This gives QT the edge over competitors.

Quattro-Tech CARS is another arm within the QT Group providing a fantastic buying experience in the used car buying arena. All cars are handpicked by their experts followed by a structured check over from their brand trained technicians. All designed to give the customer real peace of mind that they’re buying a quality used car.

Lastly Quattro Tech VanWerks, van conversion and van upgrade specialists; experts in full Campervan, Kombi and Day-Van conversions for VW Transporters, Ford Transit Customs and more. Whether they’re converting a brand-new factory spec van or building something unique to individual requirements they can assist you with your project. QT VWs offer a full no obligation consultation so they can help bring your vision to reality whilst getting to know you in the process.

St Ives Town FC announce continuation of fantastic partnership with David Smith St Ives Limited.

The club are very proud and excited to confirm renewal of the brilliant partnership deal with David
Smith St Ives.

David Smith continues as both key partner of our youth section together with supporting the club’s
social media, graphics and video content output.

David Smith are a hugely respected and successful business in the town.

They have been a key employer and supporter of the local community for well over 60 years since the
business was founded.

Mark Taylor, SITFC Commercial Director commented; “This is fantastic news for the club. David Smith
have been a key supporter of the club for many years. This expanded partnership will significantly
underpin and be critical to the clubs continued growth in the local community, growth in general and
success. We look forward to developing this partnership for many years to come.”

David Smith are timber engineering experts specialising in design and manufacture of a full range of
bespoke structural and architectural timber products including stairs, doors, joists and roof trusses.
Stephen Thompstone, Wyckham Blackwell Group CEO stated; “We are delighted to be able to continue to support the youth section of our local club, we believe in developing young people and this reflects our commitment to training throughout our business.”

St Ives Town have been drawn away to Harpenden Town in the first qualifying round of the Emirates FA Cup. Harpenden are members of the South Midlands League and the tie will take place on Saturday 31 August 2024.

St Ives Town Football Club have released details of their sponsorship and advertising opportunities for the 2024/25 season. There are a range of options including:

Matchday Sponsorship
Pitchside Sponsorship
Player/Staff Sponsorship
Kit Sponsorship
Programme Advertising
Digital Marketing Sponsorship

The full range of options is available in our new 2024/24 sponsorship and advertising brochure which is available to download HERE. For more details please contact marktaylor@marktaylormarketing.co.uk

Join us for the 2024 St Ives Town FC Beer Festival, there will be 6 casks of local ales and 2 casks of local ciders. There will also be hot food available and the bar as well.

Also on the day, there will be live entertainment as we host England Vets vs Wales Vets in a 2:30 PM kick off on the Quattro-Tech Westwood Road pitch, and for those wanting to catch the FA Cup final, we will also be showing the final live in the clubhouse.

Full details of the day are as follows:

Start: 12:00 PM

England Vets vs Wales Vets: 2:30 PM Kick-off

FA Cup Final: 3:00PM Kick-off

If you are thinking of throwing away your used football boots at the end of the football season, then why not first consider recycling them to allow Adults and children to put them to greater use.

Donating kids football boots will mean saving money for parents on a new purchase. But it’s not just children as the scheme is also open to adults as St Ives Town FC encourages football for all.

Full details of how the scheme works can be found below.

Sadly back in September we lost long time Ives fan Adrian Layton to cancer. In honour of his memory, his work colleagues have setup a fundraiser to support the team at Addenbrookes that helped Adrian in his last few months.

Adrian’s colleagues will be undertaking a charity exercise bike ride to raise money and have set themselves the target of riding the equivalent distance between the St Ives and Coatbidge (Glasgow, Scotland) offices, a grand total of 350 miles.

If you would like to donate to their fundraiser in Adrian’s memory, please do so by visiting the link below:

https://www.justgiving.com/page/adrianlayton-1708083623826?utm_medium=fundraising&utm_content=page%2Fadrianlayton-1708083623826&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=pfp-share

The official matchday magazine for the home match with Needham Market tomorrow afternoon is now available to download. Inside the 48 page edition this week:

• We look back on the Ives stunning victory at Mickleover last week
• An update on the latest results from around the Southern League
• Andy Dunn goes groundhopping to Thetford Town
• And our popular matchday quiz, Ten to Tackle returns + Lots more

Your can download your FREE edition HERE

St Ives Town U15 Blacks are having a competitive season in the EJA U15 Blue League and we are looking to add to our talented squad. The youth teams are fortunate to play and train on the 3G Quattro-Tech Westwood Road Stadium pitch with unrivalled facilities at EJA youth level.

If you are interested in joining, we will be hosting open training sessions for palyers considering the step up to EJA football for the 23/24 season.

Current open training session dates:

• Thursday 7th December – 6:00 – 7:00 PM
• Thursday 14th December – 6:00 – 7:00 PM
• More dates to possibly be announced for January 2024.

All open training sessions will be at St Ives Town FC’s home, the Quattro-Tech Westwood Road Stadium.

To attend please register your interest by contacting Tony on 07714 438823 or by email at tmax@sky.com.

St Ives Town are starting a mid-season U10 team to play in the Peterborough Junior Alliance Sunday League.

If you’re son is looking for a new challenge alongside his current Saturday team then we’d love to hear from you.

The Managers Tim and Glenn will be hosting open sessions at Quattro-Tech Westwood Road.

All training will be held on the new state of the art 3G pitch.

Open training session dates:

• Wednesday 15th November: 7-8PM
• Wednesday 22nd November: 7-8PM

To register interest please e-mail lowetimmichael@gmail.com

St Ives Town 2 v AFC Telford United 3  

Pitching-In Southern League Premier Central  09-09-2023

Nigel Howlett Reports

The Bucks claimed their first away victory of the season with an added time winner from a corner, but the result was harsh on battling Ives who I think even the most ardent Telford fan would have agreed deserved at least a point from this pulsating game where the lead changed hands three times.

The hosts suffered a pre-match blow with the news that Brandon Njoku had not recovered from the injury that he sustained in the FA Cup defeat at Leiston to leave Ives without a recognised centre forward. Winger Tiago Nassunculo returned to the starting eleven as the emergency central striker in an exiting front three that also included Dan Barton and Greg Kaziboni.

Kaziboni had the first opportunity of the game after only 50 seconds as he ran onto a long ball from Charlie Johnson and cut inside only to see his well struck effort deflect away off Bucks skipper Jarred Hodgkiss. It was Barton’s turn to carve out another chance for the hosts in the seventh minute as he got past Ellis Myles-Tebbutt to get to the bye line before picking out Nassunculo by the penalty spot with his pull back but the stand in striker miss hit his shot and the ball was scrambled away.

Bucks leading scorer Montel Gibson was also looking dangerous at the other end and in the 12^th minute he cleverly found space between the Ives centre backs to get on the end of Myles-Tebbutt’s cross from the right but he steered his header from ten yards wide of the post. Gibson was also involved three minutes later when he fed Remi Walker in through the right channel but the Bucks number ten fired his effort across the face of goal and wide of the far post from just inside the box.

With the temperature touching 32 degrees there was an agreed drinks break midway through each half and Ives almost found themselves caught out on the re-start after the first half one as Gibson managed to gallop away onto a clip over the top down the right. Keeper Eddie Brearey had come a long way to try and get to the ball first but Gibson beat him to it, fortunately the Bucks striker failed to hit the target of the open goal from a very narrow angle.

Kaziboni was still causing problems at the other end and in the  25^th minute he got away down the right before driving in a cross that was sliced wide of his own goal by Hodgkiss. The resulting corner came to nothing and it was Ives who found themselves a goal in arrears eight minutes later. Gibson was again the main protagonist as he held up the ball well allowing Jordan Piggott to loop around him and on into the box. Gibson’s lay off found the Bucks midfielder who beat Brearey low to his right with a shot from just inside the box.

To their credit Ives fought back and Johnny Herd was denied by the legs of well positioned keeper Brandon Hall in 37^th minute after the overlapping full back had been fed through by Kaziboni. Only two minutes later they levelled things up with a clever short corner routine involving Kaziboni and Barton. The eventual low cross shot from the former was turned home at the back post by Jordan Williams.

Not satisfied with being level Ives tore into their opponents straight from the off at the start of the second half. Richens twice going close with long distance efforts inside the first four minutes. Nassunculo was bundled over just outside the box by Pendley to give Herd a chance to test Hall from the resulting free kick but he to failed to hit the target just skimming the crossbar with his well struck effort.

Richens did manage to hit the target in 54^th minute as Barton combined well with Herd down the left before picking him out by the penalty spot with his clip into the box but the skipper’s header was straight into the grateful arms of Hall.

The Ives skipper did much better on the hour as his sheer persistence earned himself the goal that put the hosts in front for the first time. Richens bravely charged down an attempted clearance from Hodgkiss and strode clear onto the loose ball before beating the exposed Hall with a calm finish from just inside the box.

The lead only lasted just over ten minutes as Ives found themselves pushed back and it took a very brave block from Ed Hottor flinging himself in the way of Gibson’s close range effort after the striker had dropped off the back of Johnson and fired in a powerful effort in 70^th minute. Sadly the reprieve was only temporary as Pendley rose in the crowd to challenge for the resulting corner at the back post and then could not believe his luck as the ball dropped to his feet six yards out. The big centre back kept his composure lashing it home before Brearey or one of his defenders could react.

To give the players their due, despite the heat, the pace did not drop off as both sides continued to go for the win. Only two minutes later Barton again got around Myles-Tebbutt and delivered a low cross that was blocked by the legs of keeper Hall. Richens was following up but lashed the loose ball into the side netting.

At the other end the tricky Ricardo Dinanga wriggled his way into the box before firing over from a narrow angle in the 81^st minute. Gibson was brilliantly denied by Brearey only sixty seconds later after the striker had cleverly run onto his own flick past Johnson and looked to lift the ball over the keeper who did well to stay upright and make the save.

The closest Ives came to winning it was in 84^th minute when a rampaging Hottor was taken down by Pendley just inches outside the left hand corner of the box. Richens struck the free kick perfectly curling it around the three man wall but Hall was equal to it leaping high to his left to finger tip the goal bound effort over the top at full stretch.

The game entered an added seven minutes and in the third of those the visitors won the corner that proved decisive. Once more Pendley rose above the crowd at the back post and directed his header back into the mix where Gibson showed his strikers instinct to nod the ball home at close range to take the points back to the West Midlands.

The result sees the visitors move up to the fringes of the early season play off places whilst Ives without a win since the second game of the season still remain in the drop zone. Defending set pieces late in the game is proving to be a costly problem that needs to be resolved quickly to make life feel more comfortable for the battling boys from Cambridgeshire and get their season back on track.

Final Score:  St Ives Town  2   AFC Telford United  3

Goals:

ST IVES: Williams 39, Richens 59

TELFORD: Piggott 33, Pendley 71, Gibson 90+3

Team Line Ups:

ST IVES: Brearey, Casey, Herd, Richens (capt), Williams, Johnson, Barton (Baker 75), Hottor, Nassunculo (Andoh 75), Bell-Toxtle, Kaziboni (Hickinson 84), Unused subs: Culkin, Harris

TELFORD: Hall, Myles-Tebbutt, Jones (Bood 64), Piggott, Hodgkiss (capt), Pendley, Dinanga, Mitford (Yusuf 78), Gibson, Walker (McQuilkin 64), Moore, Unused subs: Scott, Forsyth

Cards: Yellow:  ST IVES:  Casey (26), Richens (59), Andoh (88)    TELFORD:  Mitford (13), Moore (31), Pendley (83)

IVES SUPPORTERS MAN OF THE MATCH:  Michael Richens

Attendance:  248

Join us at the Quattro-Tech Westwood Road on Saturday afternoon for a pre-match drinks promotion in the clubhouse.

From 1:00pm to 2:30pm, it is £3.00 a pint. Hot food is also available.

So make sure you take advantage and enjoy the pre-match atmosphere and an afternoon of top quality non-league football.

St Ives Town take a break from their league programme this weekend as they make the trip to Suffolk to meet Leiston in the Emirates FA Cup First Qualifying Round.

UP FOR THE CUP

Memories are still fresh of the history making FA Cup run that the Ives enjoyed last year when they made it all the way to the fourth and final qualifying round for the first time in their history, only to be eliminated by National League FC Halifax at the Quattro-Tech Westwood Road. If the Ives are going to progress past the first hurdle this year, they will have to be at their very best against a Leiston side who are in the same division sitting in 12th position having won two, drawn two and lost two of their opening six games this season.

IVES TEAM NEWS

The Ives make the trip fresh from a 1-1 draw at Kettering Town on Bank Holiday Monday. The victory looked to be in the bag but Kettering got an equaliser with the last kick of the game to ensure the points were shared. That match came on the back of a 1-0 defeat at home to Leamington last Saturday and after the Bank Holiday matches, the Ives found themselves in 19th position in the table. Boss Ricky Marheineke will be hoping that his team can reproduce the much improved performance against Kettering in what is sure to be a tough tie against a Leiston side who reached the promotion play-offs last season.

INTRODUCING LEISTON

The hosts started the season with a defeat at Halesowen but made up for that with an excellent 2-1 win at home to AFC Telford United. Over Bank Holiday weekend, they defeated Stratford 4-3 and gained a point at home to Needham Market in a local derby on Monday. It was Needham Market who halted the progress of Leiston in the FA Cup last year as the hosts tomorrow lost 3-1 in a first qualifying round tie.

GOING TO THE GAME

Admission prices for the game tomorrow are

Adults – £12
Concessions – £9
Student (with ID) – £7
U16’s – £3
U5’s – Free

The address for the ground is:

The Watson & Hillhouse Victory Road Stadium, Victory Road, Leiston, Suffolk, IP16 4DQ

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON MATCHDAY PARKING…..Leiston have stated that any supporters travelling to the game should use the overspill parking and not park at the ground as that is strictly reserved for players and officials only. The overspill parking area is THE WATERLOO CENTRE, WATERLOO AVENUE, LEISTON IP16 4HF. Parking is FREE and can be found to the rear of the school.

Should the match end in a draw, then the replay will be at the Quattro-Tech Westwood Road on Monday evening, 4 September with a 7:45pm kick-off.

There will be a full report on the game tomorrow available on the club website and social media on Saturday evening and kick-off at Victory Road is at 3:00pm.