League: 35s JLC Semi Final

Dynamos


Contact:

Dave White
Email: dave_white88@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: 07921 393257

Home Colours: Green and white shirts, black shorts, green socks
Away Colours: Blue and yellow shirts, shorts and socks

Ground: 3G Pitch, Sir Bernard Lovell Academy, North Street, Oldland Common, Bristol BS30 8TS

The first year of Dynamos was 1988, the year on our badge. The club was founded by college mates who were studying Tourism at Bristol Polytechnic; Dai and Tony (plus others). These founding fathers entered the team into some local friendlies and looked for a league that they could enter. A league was found and games ensued; and the first incarnation of was christened ‘Dynamo Tourismo’ (a nod to the University course which brought this band of merry men together).

This was the late 80s/early 90s with a group of mates in their early twenties driven purely by their love of the beautiful game; resources were in short supply, namely kit! The club begged and borrowed and managed to get hold of a kit that was the same as the Belarus national kit. This prompted a name change to ‘Dynamo Belarus.’ Around this time the club entered the Bristol Casuals League, a home for teams looking for an organised league, but without the formality (and also a place for teams getting a little more ‘mature’).

The club had several places it called home at this stage; The Lawns near Cribbs, Pill, St Anne’s to name a few. And around 2005 the club changed and dropped the Belarus to be known just as Dynamos. We managed to get a sponsor for our shirt thanks to Tel, who worked for a local cabin hire firm. Badger became the manager for a three-year stint to enact his vision.

But players started getting old and retiring, numbers dwindled and training was sporadic. Happily a new generation came in spearheaded by Mike H. We got a new kit; it was a Nike one; seriously posh! A cup semi-final followed in 2018/19, Dynamos falling short of cup glory by a single goal conceded in extra time. Finally, after many years clinging on to our Division 2 status the club finally dropped down to the third tier, albeit in a season which ended up being cut short by Covid.

With numbers falling and the future of the club in doubt, 2020/21 brought a merger with Trojans Vets and ensured the continuing legacy of Dynamos.

 

Filton High Vets

Contacts:

Dan Packer
Email: dpacker57@gmail.com
Tel: 07804 135691

Home Colours: Shirts (Orange & Black), Shorts (Black)
Away Colours: Shirts (Black), Shorts (Black)

Ground: Community Hall, Little Stoke Ln, Bristol BS34 6HR

Background: The club were founded in 2010 by ex-Filton High School pupils Andrew Porter and Lloyd Hiscox. Originally named Filton All Saints, the club competed in the South Gloucestershire Sunday Football League and then onto the Bristol Corinthians League. The squad were made up of players who attended a Thursday night kickabout in Bradley Stoke. The team changed their name to Filton High FC in the 2014-2015 season in respect to the now demolished Filton High School. The club have been actively raising funds for the Bone Cancer Research Trust since 2014 via their annual charity game, The Leigh Gaskin Memorial Cup.

 

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Henleaze Corinthians 35s

Contacts:

Tom Perrott
Email: tomblend@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: 07970 200110

Home Colours: Shirts (Red & Blue), Shorts (Blue)
Away Colours: Shirts (Blue), Shorts (Blue)

Ground: Somerdale Pavilion, Keynsham, BS31 2FW

Background:

Proud to be one of the founding teams of the league. 2023 Division 4 Title Winners!

Lion FC

Contacts:

Larry Steventon
Email: larry@ebsuk.biz
Tel: 01454 610421/ 07838 462812

Home Colours: Black & White Stripes
Away Colours: Black & White Stripes

Ground: Stoke Lane Playing Fields, Stoke Lane. Little Stoke, Bristol. BS34 6HR

Background:

Larry Steventon founded Lion Vets in 2014. Larry retired from regular Saturday football in May 2014 after playing for 37 consecutive seasons. Instantly regretting his decision he decided to form a veterans team the very next day! Lion Veterans were born. Many old war horses have returned to the fray and dusted their boots off to make a return to action. Rich Burge and his brother Lee, Dave Bennett, Russell Lee, Pete Castles, Kris Soni and Nick (Killer) Blackman to name but a few, all enjoying the Bristol Corinthians League. The Vets maintain close links with its parent club Lion FC so hopefully as players progress in years there will be a steady flow to ensure the club will be around for a few years to come.

 

Red Star 35s

Contacts:

Rob Ellis
Email: rob.ellis546@googlemail.com
Tel: 07890 531769


Home Colours
: Shirts (Red), Shorts (Red)

Away Colours: Shirts (White), Shorts (White)

Ground: Saltford FC, 3 Wedmore Rd, Saltford, Bristol BS31 3BY

Background
Formed in 2010, Red Star Redland was an amalgam of two and half 5-a-side teams made-up of players who mainly worked in the media, none of whom lived in Redland.  The team took on new impetus when Andrew “Cobbsy” Robinson retired from playing and took-over as manager.  He helped shape the club into a proper 11-a-side outfit which went on to have some pretty decent cup runs in the BCL and some excellent summer excursions at summer tournaments in Belgium accompanied by many litres of Jupiler.  In 2019 with the average age of the squad creeping up and numbers starting to dwindle, the club merged with Red Star Bedminster which allowed a 45s team to be created alongside the 35s.  With a 50s team added in 2021 there is now a Red Star team to take everyone involved up to retirement, and each side is built on the league’s excellent Corinthian principles and a love of playing football.

Shine Sports

Contacts:

Phil Wilton
Email: shinesportsfc@outlook.com
Tel: 07982 510811

John Allsop
Email:
Tel: 07727 192855

Home Colours: Red & White halves/Red/White
Away Colours:

Ground: Backwell Recreation Ground, West Town Road, Backwell. BS48 3HQ

 

Avon Retreads

Contacts:

Richard Lingard
Email: avonretreads@gmail.com
Tel: 07305919955

Jason Fitch
Email: Jasefitch@hotmail.com
Tel: 07795905723

Home Colours: Navy Blue
Away Colours: Orange

Ground: BAWA Sports Ground, Southmead Rd, Filton, Bristol

Background:

AR launched in the late 90’s, a motley crew of Local Government Workers (hence the Avon bit of the name) Retreads referencing our Michelin Man girths.
We began in Division 1 (there were only two divisions then) and secured one victory against the cup holders PSST. A two division demotion followed.  There have been occasional triumphs like winning Div 3 in 2014/15, but the ethos is always that if you turn up you get a fair run on the pitch and no one is too good not to have time on the bench to accommodate others

DAFT

Contacts:

James Greaves
Email: james.greaves@atos.net
Tel: 07717441755

Simon Willies
Email: simonwillies@btinternet.com
Tel:

Home Colours: Shirts (Blue & Yellow)
Away Colours:

Ground: Sharpham Rd Playing Fields, Somerset, Cheddar, BS27 3DR

 

Mathern Casuals

Huw Jones
Email: huw2205@hotmail.com
Tel: 07494154944

Home Colours: Shirts (Light Blue & White Stripes), Shorts (Black)
Away Colours: Shirts (Yellow & Red Stripes), Shorts (Red)

Ground: Mathern Football Club, Birdwood Gardens, Mathern, Chepstow, NP16 6UF

Background:

The older we get, the better we were. Always looking for new (younger) players

 

St. George Easton in Gordano Vets

Contacts:

Mark Young
Email: markyoung1974.MY@gmail.com
Tel: 07792 556844

Clive Young
Email: clive@moneymatterswest.co.uk
Tel:07972 177945

Home Colours: Shirts (Black & Blue)
Away Colours: Shirts (Red)

Ground: Ham Green Playing Fields, Macrae Rd, Ham Green, Pill, Bristol