Wincantons' Premier Outdoor Recreational Facility

News

August 2011

This season  Wincanton Town Football Club will be fielding a Ladies team Managed by Mark Harvey (07970475109) and Audley Butler (07534675171). They will be playing in Division one of the Somerset County Ladies league, playing on Sunday afternoons at Moor Lane. The First team kick off the season on Saturday 13th August at Moor Lane at 3.00pm against Sturminster Marshall in The Dorset Premier League. they will be hoping to continue their very good pre-season form, unbeaten in 5 games with the most recent result being a 5-0 win against neighbours Castle Cary. The Reserves will kick off in Early September in the Dorset County League and the third team will compete in the Yeovil and District Division 2, also starting in early September. The First Team Manager is Paul Down (07813681604), the Reserve team Manager Andy Stewart (07540127585) and the third Team Manager is Joe Todd (07725799460).

This season the club has a new Chairman in Matt Isaacs and Vice Chairman Sarah Isaacs who are working very hard to improve WTFC on and off the field . Please come along and support your local Teams. 

Open Day Success

More than 400 people turned out for the first ever Wincanton Sports Day on Sunday 5th June. Vistors enjoyed coaching displays in football, bowls and tennis and the Wincanton Silver Band kept the crowds entertained throughout the day. The user group initiative has been established to promote the council funded spoarts facility and encourage more people from the town to use it.

      

Sports Ground Chairman, Stuart Matthews has grand hopes for the facility's future and is planning to develop a new netball court with help from local business and sports development grants.

"We want the sports ground to be a hub for sporting development in South East Somerset and it is events like this that can help us to acheive that. It was a very succesful day and we had a lot of enquiries from people wanting to use the facilities. The user group worked really hard to make it happen and hopefully we can make it bigger and better for next year".

"There was a queue of people waiting to test out their tennis serves with the speed gun and the Wincanton Football team proved to be quite handy at target bowls after a demonstration by Gary Fingerhut".

Stuart went on to add that a representative form an International Football team contacted him during the open day and is hoping to bring the annual tournament to Wincanton, with teams from Brazil, Slovakia, Souith Africa and Belgium.

"That would really help to put us on the map and encorage more people to use the excellent facilities here".