From London to Leipzig, Clapton CFC have six pre-season games to warm up for the new Middlesex County Football League season.
Tag: Pre-season
Clapton CFC head to Leipzig to celebrate RSL’s 20th birthday
Clapton CFC are delighted to be heading to Germany on August 10th to help our friends at Roter Stern Leipzig mark their 20th anniversary.
Clapton CFC 1 London Samurai Rovers 0: Tons end pre-season with first clean sheet in training game
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 […]
Practice game only this Saturday – season starts in just two weeks
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 […]
Clapton CFC 5 Wanderers FC 2: Glorious start to life at the newly-named Stray Dog
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 […]
Clapton CFC face Wanderers FC in historic first home friendly – what you need to know
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 […]
Fourth clean-up evening announced – the last before Clapton CFC’s first home friendly
Clapton CFC fans have pulled together over the last month to spruce our temporary home of Wadham Lodge in Walthamstow. We want to make the spectator area as accessible as possible ahead of our first home game, the friendly against Wanderers FC on August 25th, and the upcoming Middlesex County Football League season. The first […]
‘Maturing’ Clapton CFC side face trip to revitalised Epping Town
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 […]
NW London FC 1 Clapton CFC 3: Tons record second win of pre-season against impressive opponents
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 […]
England’s youngest and oldest fan owned clubs compete for Brian Lomax Supporters Direct Cup
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 […]