#WeAre1000: Geoff Ocran and Arlo mark Clapton CFC’s milestone

Clapton Community Football Club has reached the incredible milestone of 1,000 members, just four months after playing our first-ever match. Our 1,000th member, eight-year-old Arlo, was presented with his owner’s certificate and member’s badge during half-time at our home game against Eastfield FC. Whilst the other players returned to the dressing rooms, player-manager Geoff Ocran […]

Deportivo Galicia London Reserves 1 Clapton CFC 4: Crosbie double seals cup progress

A tricky tie against a team with their roots in the western corner of Spain took Clapton CFC to the western corner of London, where they tasted away cup joy for the second week running.  The 4-1 win over Deportivo Galicia Reserves, in the shadow of Heathrow Airport, booked the Tons a ticket to the […]

Clapton fans and St Pauli fans, shoulder to shoulder against repression

At the cup game against Letchworth Garden City, the International Committee of Clapton CFC distributed a leaflet highlighting an attack on St Pauli supporters travelling to an away game by the North Rhine-Westphalia state police. The leaflet was a translation of a press statement released by Braunweisshilfe – a campaigning solidarity project run by fans […]

FC Deportivo Galicia Reserves vs Clapton CFC preview: Tons head west for lunchtime cup kick-off

Still fighting on three fronts, The Tons are back in cup action this weekend as we head west to Feltham for the second round of the Jim Rogers Cup. Whereas the first round was effectively staged in a park, away at South Kilburn Reserves, this fixture will be at the Bedfont Sports Club, an Isthmian League […]

Letchworth Garden City Eagles 0 Clapton CFC 2: Tenacious Tons down high-flying Eagles

A challenging tie in the second round of the Anagram Records Trophy saw Clapton emerge with a highly impressive 2-0 win at previously unbeaten Letchworth Garden City Eagles. Today’s line-ups away at @LGCEaglesFC in the Anagram Records Trophy. Set to be the home side’s record ever attendance. pic.twitter.com/SYhSHhuYHm — Clapton CFC (@ClaptonCFC) November 10, 2018 […]

Letchworth GC Eagles vs Clapton CFC preview: Tons head to Herts for big cup challenge

This Saturday Clapton CFC will be travelling into the wide world outside the M25 to take on the Letchworth Garden City Eagles in the second round of the Anagram Records Trophy. For the history buffs, Letchworth was one of the first “New Towns” based on the principles of visionary planner Ebenezer Howard. It inspired the […]

Clapton CFC 11 Hereford Palace 1: Tons notch up double figures to keep scoreboard operators busy

If you had just caught the scoreline, you might have been forgiven for thinking that Clapton had switched disciplines and taken up Rugby Union. Saturday’s game with Hereford Palace provided, on average, a goal every 7 and a half minutes to entertain a brilliant crowd of 400-plus in the autumn sun. Player-manager Geoff Ocran named […]

Young Tons have fun designing a sporty Christmas card for Supporters’ Direct

Young Clapton CFC fans and their parents drew some great cards this weekend as part of Supporters Direct’s Christmas Card Design Competition. The Christmas cards were designed on the theme of ‘supporting sport’ using inks and fingerprinting before and after the Hereford Palace game. We’ll now send off the designs to the Supporters’ Direct judging panel, […]

Clapton CFC back to league duty to face improving basement side Hereford Palace

There can be no glossing over it, it’s been a massively tough start to life in the football pyramid for Hereford Palace. The brand new Wormwood Scrubs-based side started the Middlesex County Football League season with a whopping 18-0 (yes, EIGHTEEN) defeat at home to NW London. A frustrated club spokesman told us that everything […]