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We are pleased to announce the dates and venues of seven of the League's nine Challenge Cup finals for 2022 with the two Sunday Vets Cup final to be confirmed.
The League extends its thanks to all host clubs for offering their facilities to make these cup finals the special occasions that they are.
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We are sad to learn of the passing of Mike Sweeney, who passed away yesterday (2 January).
Mike was a larger than life character and an absolute legend of Lloyds Bank Football Club. Many memories and stories are already being shared by many former Lloyds players, and there will surely be many more within the SAL family. Funeral details are to be confirmed at this stage. Our clubs thoughts are with his wife, Pat, and family RIP Mike It is with great sorrow to report the passing of Geoff Hurst on Saturday 7th August 2021 aged 74. Geoff was part of the all-conquering Midland Bank Team of the 70's winning four Southern Amateur League championships and two Amateur FA Senior Cups.
He also played for both the Amateur FA and Southern Amateur League Representative Teams for many years both home and abroad. Geoff also co-managed the Winchmore Hill 1st XI and could regularly be found at the club each Saturday supporting the teams and catching up with friends old and new. He had time for everyone and will be sadly missed.  We are proud to announce that the SAL has been selected for an AFA Grassroots Football Award. The FA and McDonald’s Grassroots Football awards are for those who make a positive difference in football. They are the FA and AFA's way of celebrating the fantastic organisations and individuals who put their heart and soul into the grassroots game and the incredible volunteers who inspire us all. "Congratulations and thank you for the work that you do; you fully deserve to be recognised for your efforts, so please do continue to keep it up!"  We are sad to report the passing of Old Stationers Honorary President, Gordon Rose, (above, back row, far left) on 18 May.
Gordon was had a long, distinguished and influential association with the club as player, chairman and 1st XI manager. Under his leadershing the 1st XI won Senior Division 3 in 1981/82 followed by Senior Division 2 in 1983/84 and in 1988/89 won the AFA Senior Cup for the only time in the club's history, along with the Old Boys Senior Cup and promotion again to Senior Division 1. Gordon will be remembered for his tremendous work behind the scenes during a period when OSFC ran nine teams and for his humour and larger than life personality. He made an impression on all who knew him and will be sadly missed. Our thoughts are with his family & friends at this sad time. With thanks to the Old Stationers FC Facebook page whence this piece was cribbed and the photograph was taken.  We are sad to report the passing of Old Wilsonians Life President, Mike Harris, a stalwart to the club and to AFA football as a whole. During his time with Old Wilsonians Mike was a player, referee, club officer and, in more recent years, archivist and historian.
Club Secretary Jamie Parkinson's obituary on the Old Wilsonians website give a fuller picture of a man who will be missed by all. Our thoughts are with his friends and family.
We are pleased to announce the dates and venues for all eight Challenge Cup finals for 2021:
Following a meeting with the Referee Appointment Team that consists of five League Management Committee Members and one League Match Official I can confirm that the Match Official Appointments have been completed for the 2020/21 Southern Amateur League Challenge Cups. Last year was my first season appointing to the League Fixtures and the SAL Cups, I thought that was hard but this year has been a whole lot harder. I want to thank each and every Match Official for their continued hard work, commitment and support to myself, Mark Freedman, the Referee Appointments Team and the Southern Amateur League. Therefore, I am delighted to announce that Deryll David has been appointed to the SAL Senior Challenge Cup Final for the 2020/21 season. Deryll has been a Referee for 11 years and has been officiating on the Southern Amateur League for 10 years. He was informed via telephone from the Referees Secretary of his appointment to the Senior Final and he had the following to say. When I had a call from Daryl to inform me of my appointment, I was shocked and delighted to be given the appointment! I'm ecstatic to be taking charge of the SAL Senior Cup Final. A full list of appointments to the Southern Amateur League Challenge Cups can be found below. Congratulations to you all! Daryl
 HRH The Duke of Edinburgh with Queen Elizabeth II as Bobby Moore collects the Julets Rimet Trophy in 1966. Photo: thefa.com Following the news earlier today of the passing of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, former President of The Football Association, we would like to suggest that clubs wishing to mark the occasion do so with a minute's silence and, where appropriate, flags lowered to half-mast.
His Royal Highness was President of The FA between 1955 and 1957, although he attended his first FA Cup Final in 1949 and would be a regular presence at the Wembley showpiece into the 1960s. The tradition for him to be introduced to both teams before kick-off included the memorable 1953 Final made famous by Sir Stanley Matthews’ Blackpool side winning 4-3 against Bolton Wanderers. The Prince remained an honorary member of The FA and accompanied HM The Queen at the 1966 World Cup Final at Wembley in which England defeated West Germany 4-2 to lift the trophy for the only time, at the time of writing. In 2021 there are many different perspectives on how to mark such occasions and we do not wish anyone to feel pressured to participate in any observance where they do not feel comfortable. We therefore encourage clubs and/or teams to discuss the issue ahead of kick-off to ensure any such observances go ahead smoothly. League Match Secretary, Eric Owen, has issued the following update on the mini-leagues which are being organised for the end of the season: Afternoon All I hope everyone is well. I wanted to give you all an update on the supplementary mini tournaments we intend to run to give as many of our sides as possible some football when the season restarts. We will be dividing most of the divisions up into mini leagues of 4 or 5 teams which will predominantly be regionalised as best as we can. Each team will play each other in a league format and then depending on time and pitches etc there will be semi-finals or we may go straight to a final but we will advise as the tournaments progress. Obviously, there may be issues around weather and pitch availability. Mini-leagues open to all teams already out of SAL Cups plus any losing in the first two rounds after we come back We need clubs to be flexible with this as we will have teams who get knocked out in the SAL cups in the early weeks of our return joining the mini leagues as well. There will be fixtures for most sides who are already out of the cups on the 10th April but unfortunately, we will not be able to put all fixtures out until we know the results of the SAL cup rounds played on the 3rd. I will notify clubs of the potential league formats as soon as cup games on the 3rd April are out of the way and we know who has progressed or not. Feel free to organise friendlies for the 3rd April if you are not in the SAL cups. Fixtures will start on 10 April The nature of these tournaments is to give our clubs competitive football and we are happy for you to mutually agree venues for these games if the home drawn clubs is struggling with pitches or agree different kick off times but as always, please notify myself and Daryl. I will try to pencil games in around your home pitch allocations you have informed me about. We will attempt to supply officials for all matches and usual league and county rules, discipline, and registration rules will apply. Groups of 4 or 5 playing each other once, semi-finals (if possible) and finals to follow If a team can't play a match for any reason, they will have to forfeit for obvious reasons, but we hope that won't happen as most of us are chomping at the bit to play.
Great news is that most clubs are entering the majority of their sides into these tournaments but please advise asap if for any reason a side changes it's mind. There may even be a trophy for each winner !! This is quite a logistical headache to arrange so we would appreciate your patience and understanding in getting these games on. Keep well and I will update you all regularly |
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