It’s finally here! Three months after forming, eight friendlies in, and Clapton Community Football Club are about to make their competitive debut this Saturday. For those who don’t know, Clapton CFC have been placed in Division One Central & East of the Middlesex County Football League, which is Step 8 of the non-league football pyramid. […]
Periods remain a taboo, despite being a monthly certainty for billions. A recent Plan UK survey estimates that 1 in 10 young people in the UK are affected by period poverty, where they can’t afford basic sanitary products, 14% have to borrow sanitary products because they can’t afford it, and 12% improvise. Clapton Community Football […]
The friendlies are now over – finally – and Clapton CFC signed off pre-season with a narrow win and a first clean sheet. With Clapton CFC’s temporary new home The Stray Dog having been booked by another team, the game had to be played at noon on a 3G pitch nearby with no space for […]
Just to clarify some important information about this Saturday’s game vs London Samurai Rovers. This was arranged as a practice friendly against a team from our league because we still don’t know what to expect ahead of our first season. It’s an early kick-off on a 3G pitch, not at the Stray Dog, and there’s […]
It’s been a huge week for us at Clapton CFC with lots of attention from around the world for our small club. In fact we have been totally overwhelmed with the response to our new away shirt commemorating the Spanish Republic. Thanks so much to friends and comrades old and new. We originally expected to sell around […]
Clapton CFC have not even kicked a ball in competitive football yet, but we’ve seen an overwhelming demand for our replica shirts, particularly our away strip. The colourful red, purple and yellow shirt, inspired by the International Brigades and voted for by our members, was formally launched on Saturday at the team’s home friendly against the […]
An amazing afternoon for Clapton CFC’s first ‘home’ game as a determined Wanderers made it a very competitive friendly in front of a big crowd. Player-manager Geoff Ocran named a relatively settled starting XI but with two debutants on the bench – attacker Charlie Fagan and midfielder Paul Oshin. The latter is very familiar to […]
Never let it be said that we don’t like trying new things here at Clapton. In a summer of firsts, we played in the first ever match at Holland FC’s new ground and Clapton CFC were the first MCFL club ever to compete in the final of the Supporters Direct Cup – against England’s first […]
Our temporary home in Walthamstow has a new name as chosen by our members – The Stray Dog. Members were invited to suggest names for the intermediate pitch at Wadham Lodge, where we will play our games this season. Over 100 of us voted from the list of suggestions and The Stray Dog was a clear winner […]
Good news – we’ve hopefully managed to secure a final chance to grab a Clapton CFC home or away shirt before the season starts. Pre-order online by August 25th and manufacturers Rage Sports should be able to tack yours on to the current batch they’re producing for the 200 or so of us who have […]
Clapton CFC are to play newly-promoted Hutton FC at home in the first round of the BBC Essex Premier Cup. Hutton, based in Brentwood, will play in the Essex Olympian Premier Division, one step above CCFC, this season after finishing runners-up last season. Last season in the Essex Premier Cup, Hutton reached the fourth round, […]
Epping Town are on a mission to go back to the glory days of the Seventies and Eighties. In the early 1980s they disappeared due to financial problems, despite the team reaching the Isthmian League, basking in their best ever FA Cup and FA Vase runs and playing the likes of West Ham and Spurs […]
Clapton notched up a second win in 7 days on Saturday, with an impressive victory over MCFL Div 1 counterparts, NW London, at the vast New River Stadium. Our second visit to North London in a week saw Geoff Ocran’s team put in arguably their most complete performance of pre-season to date against well drilled […]
After the glamour games and the free hits, the serious preparation for the league season begins. A shot at silverware against Step 3 Enfield Town at their lovely stadium; a trip to the seaside to open Step 6 Holland FC‘s impressive new £550,000 facility; and a visit to the immaculate second stadium on the Olympic Park […]
Clapton CFC defied the five-division gap to push Enfield Town hard but ultimately lost out in the Brian Lomax Supporters Direct Cup with late goals in both halves. The Tons were missing player-manager Geoff Ocran – out with a minor knee injury – as they had their first shot at silverware in only their fourth […]
This Tuesday, Clapton CFC’s pre-season schedule moves up a gear with the chance of lifting some silverware against Enfield Town. The venue is the beautiful, Grade II-listed Queen Elizabeth II Stadium, which is holding its second cup final of the summer, having already hosted the ConIFA World Cup for non-FIFA affiliated regions. Enfield Town and […]
Eliot Crosbie smashed home Clapton CFC’s first ever goal to put the Tons on their way to a hugely impressive victory in the East London sunshine. After games at much higher opposition Holland FC and West Essex, player-manager Geoff Ocran had earmarked this as the first chance to properly gauge how his newly-formed team would […]
After a gruelling first test by the seaside in week one, Clapton dusted themselves off, stepping up against even tougher opposition last Sunday against West Essex. In terms of league standing, the ESL side represent our most difficult game of pre-season, sitting three divisions above us in the non-league pyramid. While the 3-0 result wasn’t […]
Clapton CFC are a fan-owned, fan-operated football club, and that comes with some pretty decent perks. Clapton CFC fans will never be treated like customers. We’ll never be blindsided by the decisions of a malevolent owner. And we don’t have to pull on a replica shirt that costs £80 but the workers who made it […]
Clapton CFC succumbed to a 3-0 defeat against West Essex on a drizzly afternoon at the London Marathon Community Track, but there were plenty of positives for player-manager Geoff Ocran to take into next Saturday’s game against Sporting Hackney. A much-improved CCFC showed cohesion and looked dangerous on the counter attack against their ESL opponents. […]
