Today was Purton’s first win in the Wiltshire League since the 19th February 2022.
It’s been a tough few years and there’s still a long way to go, but we will take this great community club back to where we belong.
Football is back, and so are Purton FC 🔴🔴
🔴 NEWS!
Purton FC are delighted to announce the appointment of Matty Bennett and Pete McGunigall as our new joint first team managers for the 2023/24 campaign - our centenary season.
A huge welcome back to the Redhouse, Matty and Pete.
#COYR
🔴🔴
It’s full time at St Joe’s and the Purton Dev lads have pulled off a stunning result against league favourites the Drunken Masters
Drunken Masters 0
Purton Development 2
Goals from
@Dazherring1990
and a penalty from
@tomjames1412
to end the Saturday drought 🔴🔴
@sdflswindon
FT from Green Lane…
Bishops Cannings Reserves 3
Purton Devs 9
4 goals for Liam, 3 from
@tomjames1412
1 for
@L11_W15
and and own goal.
Thank you to
@ClubBishops
for hosting & best of luck for the season ahead 🫱🏻🫲🏼
The captain
@TheIGFH
also demanded I mention his 2 assists
🔴 Another good session tonight in the sunshine at Purton ☀️
🔴 27 to pick from for the Development team match on Saturday ⚽️
🔴 The work for next season is well underway 💪🏻
FT at the Red House…
Purton 3
Abingdon United 2
A fantastic start to preseason for Macca and Matt against a strong Abingdon United team.
Thank you
@Abutdfc
for today’s game 🫱🏻🫲🏼
The
@WiltsLeague
have released their constitution for next season.
Some great games to look forward to for our new-look first team under the leadership of Matty Bennett 🔴🔴
More details can be found here -
🔴 Another busy and productive session at a sunny Purton Redhouse tonight
🔴 No plans to stop training and playing throughout the summer as we look to build for 23/24 season
🔴 Looking forward to welcoming
@sevenfields_fc
on Saturday for a friendly
FT from Nalgo
Spectrum 2
Purton Development 7
🔴Purton goals from
@willmiller2992
(2)
@Dazherring1990
(2)
@jsky1022
(2)
and a debut goal for Ciaran Fennell
🔴 Beautiful free kick from Mr Miller to open the scoring
🔴 23 in attendance for tonight’s session at the Redhouse
🔴 A few new faces from other clubs showing us what they can do
🔴 Great to see the lads enjoying training again
🔴 Second session planned for Thursday
FT from the Red House…
Purton 6
Pewsey Vale Devs 0
Purton goals from
@Ashtxn_10
, Levi, Ethan and a hat trick from the gaffer Matt Bennett
Next up,
@StrattonJuniors
at the Red House on Tuesday evening 🔴🔴
Nice new kit for the Development squad modelled by Liam and Brad
Supplied by
@TeamSportDirect
and kindly sponsored for the 23/24 season by Print Clever, Swindon.
Just the training tops and tracksuits to go 🔴🔴
FT from Moredon Hub…
Abbey Meads 0
Purton Development 7
Goals: A stunning hat trick from Dan Mulvey, another for
@Dazherring1990
, one for Will Miller, a cracker from Jack Skyrme, and this well hit penalty from Jeromme Brinsdon-Pean
Next up:
@MarlboroughTnFC
Devs (H) 11/11
FT from Sevenfields
Moredon 2
Purton Development 2
Purton goals from
@Dazherring1990
and
@sebsmith1011
Man of the match: Seb Smith
No rest over the Christmas break, double training and a charity match v
@PurtonSundayFC
on 30/12 🔴🔴
@Westmeadfc
gaffer/Purton RB (below)
The Devs new limited edition charity away shirt, modelled by
@harryJbennett11
and appreciated by Reggie the dog
Shirt kindly sponsored by
@TheIGFH
& Bybrook Garden Rooms.
Main shirt sponsor is Paws for Pets based in Calne. We’ll be doing some fundraisers for them soon 🔴
Full time from the reserves match this evening…
Badbury United 0
Purton 14
Purton goals:
@Ashtxn_10
⚽️
@Dazherring1990
⚽️⚽️⚽️
@WillMiller2992
⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️
@jsky1022
⚽️⚽️⚽️
Seb Smith ⚽️
Matty Hall ⚽️
Jamie Wright ⚽️
Good luck to Badbury United for the season ahead.
FT from the Red House…
Purton 5
Stratton Juniors 1
4 wins on the bounce for the firsts in tonight’s
@WiltsLeague
clash
Purton goals coming from Matt Bennett (2), Nick Stanley (2), and Alex 🔴🔴
🔴 The only penalty shoot out that mattered today was to be found at the Red House to conclude our first in-house 5-a-side event
🔴 £100 was on offer to the winners & after 3 hours of intense action it came down to just 1 kick
🔴
@Coventry_City
could learn plenty from our lads
🔴 Another lively session at the Purton Redhouse with 21 in attendance ⚽️
🔴 The grass has been freshly cut for tomorrow’s match with Uffington United ✂️
🔴 Why on earth isn’t there a lawnmower emoji? 🤔
FT from the Red House…
Purton 6
Kingsdown Lions Devs 0
Goals from Matt Bennett, Alex, Dev, Alec, Josh (2) 🔴🔴
Thanks to
@Kingsdownlions
devs for the game 🫱🏻🫲🏼
A massive well done to the brilliant
@PurtonWomensFC
squad for getting to the cup final against STFC and doing everyone proud.
Big things to come from our double-winning ladies 🔴🔴
FT from the Red House…
Purton 7
Shrivenham Development 1
Another hat trick for Matt Bennett, a stunning finish from Agent
@Ashtxn_10
to open the scoring, 1 for Levi Cox, Gio Wrona and another for Alex Hammond
Thanks to
@FShrivenham
for the game 🔴🔴
🔴 Football returns this Saturday at 1pm when we welcome
@Abutdfc
from the Hellenic League to the Red House
🔴 Come and support Matt, Macca and the lads as the new look first team begin their preseason journey at home
🔴 Cafe and pub onsite
Congratulations to the players & coaching team at
@PurtonWomensFC
on a brilliant league cup win today 🏆
This incredible title-winning team went unbeaten in the league & now they’ve added the cup to end what has been a remarkable season 🥇
Well done from all at Purton FC 🔴🔴
FT from Lambourn…
Lambourn Sports 1
Purton 8
Big win for Macca and Benno 🔴
Purton goals:
@gwrona
⚽️⚽️⚽️
Joey Herbert ⚽️⚽️
Alex Hammond ⚽️
@Ashtxn_10
⚽️
Levi Cox ⚽️
🔴 Next up at the Purton Red House on Wednesday our young development team will host
@SwindonOldBoys
🔴 Good start on Saturday with a 3 - 9 away win
🔴 7.15 kick off with a pub on site 🍺
🔴 Great first training session yesterday with our new Development team head coach, Tom Heal.
🔴 With just 3 games remaining Jon and Tom already have an eye on next season with 3 trialists taking part in the session.
🔴 We look forward to welcoming
@MoredonFC
on Saturday.
It’s match day and our young Development team make the short journey to Sevenfields to face
@MoredonFC
for a 2pm top-of-the-table clash in
@sdflswindon
Division 1 🔴🔴
FT from Gladstone Memorial Rec…
Kintbury Rangers Devs 5
Purton 6
Incredible game of football, we finished the game with 9 players, but the 3 points are coming back to SN5 🔴
Purton Goals:
@gwrona
⚽️⚽️
Alex Hammond ⚽️⚽️
Chris Jackson ⚽️
Josh Connolly ⚽️
@WiltsLeague
l
🔴 First training session completed for Matt & Macca as they look to build their squad ahead of a busy preseason starting with
@Abutdfc
at home on 1/7
🔴 Dev squad back in training today as they look to prepare for their first preseason friendly away to
@ClubBishops
also on 1/7
🔴 Close game at the Redhouse today resulting in a 1-2 defeat for our young development team - our goal came from Liam
🔴 Fair play to a strong
@sevenfields_fc
for a decent competitive match 🫱🏻🫲🏼
🔴 Next up we welcome
@UffingtonUtd
on Wednesday for a 7pm kick off
#COYR
Very proud of our Development team captain, Brad, who completed a half marathon at Alton Towers in aid of Birmingham Children’s Hospital, yesterday.
Devs management Jon & Tom said: “Are you sure? That’s about 13 miles more than what he’s ran all season”.
Well done, Brad 🔴🔴
A huge welcome and good luck to our new first team management, Macca and Matt Bennett 🫱🏻🫲🏼🔴
⚽️ Purton v
@Abutdfc
🕐 1pm kick off
📍 Purton Red House
🍺 Pub open
#ComeOnPurton
🔴 The season may be over but the football doesn’t stop ⚽️
🔴 This Saturday at 2.30 we welcome double cup-finalists
@RedhouseFC
to Purton for a friendly 🫱🏻🫲🏼
🔴 Cafe and pub on-site and no 🌧️ in the forecast 🍺
🔴 Fantastic extra session tonight at Sevenfields in the rain with 19 in attendance
🔴 Two impressive trialists playing their football in the
@WiltsLeague
Prem and
@sdflswindon
Prem last season looking to strengthen our Development team for 23/24
🔴 Big news coming soon…
FT from Meadowcroft…
Stratton Juniors 2
Purton Development 4
Goals from:
@Dazherring1990
Seb Smith
@TheIGFH
@Ashtxn_10
Big win puts the Devs in the semi final of the Challenge Cup 🔴🔴
After starting our 23/24
@WiltsLeague
Division 1 campaign with a good win at the weekend we make the short journey to face
@Cricklade_Town
Firsts, tonight.
🕡 6.30pm kick off
🏟️ Stones Lane, Cricklade
🍺 Bar on site
🔊 Match updates here (hopefully)
🔴 Come on you reds 🔴
🔴 Final score from the Red House this evening was Purton Devs 2 Redhouse 4
🔴 Hugely impressive second half from our young lads and a respectable result to take against a strong SDFL Premier team.
🔴 6 days off and we go again in preparation for next season
🔴 It’s match day and we’ve got a Purton vs
@StrattonJuniors
double header!
🔴 At 1.30 the Devs face Stratton Juniors Reserves at Meadowcroft in the QF of the
@sdflswindon
Challenge Cup
🔴 And at 2.15 Purton firsts will face Stratton Juniors in the
@WiltsLeague
at St Luke’s.
FT at the Red House…
Purton Development 2
Swindon Old Boys 1
Purton goals from
@harryJbennett11
and a well hit penalty from the captain Brad
@TheIGFH
Thank you
@SwindonOldBoys
for a tough, entertaining match and best of luck for the season ahead 🫱🏻🫲🏼
FT at the Red House…
Purton 3
Bratton 2
Purton goals from Gio Wrona (2) and Brad
Thanks to
@bratton_fc
for the game -
@Cricklade_Town
up next on Tuesday 🔴🔴
FT from the Red House in the
@WiltsLeague
Division One…
Purton 6
Kintbury Rangers Devs 0
Gio Wrona ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️
Levi Cox ⚽️
Matt Bennett ⚽️
Many thanks to
@KintburyRangers
Devs for the game and best wishes for the rest of the season.
The
@WiltsLeague
gets underway today and we start our campaign by welcoming
@bratton_fc
to the Red House.
🕒 3pm kick off
🚗 Lots of free parking
📕 Match day programme on sale
🍺 Cafe and pub on site
📍 SN5 4DT
🔴 Charity football match on Saturday supporting
@CR_UK
at the Purton Red House with a 4pm start ⚽️
🔴 All players are donating to Cancer Research UK and Purton FC will be making a club donation 💷
🔴 The sun will be shining, and the pub will be open ☀️🍺
Full time score today from the Purton Redhouse:
🔵 Purton Development 3
🟢 Redhouse FC 4
The game was played in a good spirit,
@RedhouseFC
are a good bunch of lads and we wish them well in their Cup Final 🫱🏻🫲🏼
Purton goals came from Ethan and Liam.
Onwards and upwards 🔴
⚽️ Match day at the Red House for our development team ⚽️
🆚
@CovinghamUTD
🕰️ 6.45 kick off
🍺 Pub open
🎨 Grass cut by the chairman, fresh lines painted by the Devs manager and the Devs head coach
@TomHeal08
👌🏻🔴🔴
🔴 Good friendly with
@UffingtonUtd
last night at a warm and sunny Red House ⚽️
🔴 Lost 1 - 3 to a well organised opposition. Our goal came from Liam ⚽️
🔴 While defeat is always disappointing we take heart from the huge strides we have made over the last couple of months ⚽️
🔴 Both teams in action today
🔴 Purton firsts will be make the journey to
@MarlboroughTnFC
in the
@WiltsLeague
for a 3pm kick off
🔴 The Devs are at home to
@fc_lower
in the
@sdflswindon
looking to continue their 100% start to the season at 2.30pm
🔴 Pub and cafe on site
Earlier this season we went to Moredon with 10 youngsters and lost 19-0.
Today we lost 3-0 and on another day we could’ve had a few ourselves.
The Development squad has made great strides in our first ever season.
Best of luck
@PurtonWomensFC
for tomorrow’s big match 🔴🔴
🔴 Another lively session at the Redhouse with 24 in attendance
🔴 3 points awarded for our last game of the season
🔴 Looking forward to welcoming
@RedhouseFC
for a friendly on Saturday
A busy week for both Purton teams ⚽️
🔴Tuesday: Firsts away to
@Cricklade_Town
(6.30)
🔴Wednesday: Devs face
@PurtonSundayFC
at the Red House (6.45)
🔴Saturday: First team face
@pewseyvalefc
Devs at the Red House (3pm) & the Devs are playing
@RedhouseFC
at Sevenfields (1.30)
Due to a cancellation this morning we are looking for an opponent for this Saturday 27th for our reserves.
We can host at Purton and the referee is booked for a 2pm kick off.
Give us a shout if interested.
@sdflswindon
@WiltsLeague
@wdfafootball
@northberks
Be in no doubt, the Devs are very pleased to be using their new kit for the first time tomorrow.
Here we have our No.7
@harryJbennett11
looking thoughtful and our No.1
@shimmyjim011
modelling the new threads on the Purton catwalk 🔴⚪️🔴
FT at Stones Lane…
Cricklade Town 1
Purton 2
Our goals coming from
@Ashtxn_10
and a stunning goal from Matt Bennett.
Could’ve been quite a few more, fair play to Cricklade’s keeper.
Next up is
@pewseyvalefc
devs at the Red House on Saturday 🔴🔴
🔴 Third session this week at a very wet Sevenfields following our match postponement
🔴 No coronation for our lads but some regal football on display during our 60 min match
🔴 New players adding a touch of real quality to the session
🔴 Great to see these lads improving
It’s match day, and we’ve got both teams in action tonight.
The Devs will face
@SpectrumFC123
at Nalgo while the firsts will look to build on their 3 wins out of 3 in the
@WiltsLeague
as they face
@StrattonJuniors
at the Red House 🔴🔴
Another busy weekend of football ahead…
Saturday:
@OfficialDAFC1
v Purton
⚽️ 2pm kick off - GL7 5QX
Sunday:
@FcD3lta
v Purton Devs
⚽️ 10.30am kick off - Sevenfields
FT at the Red House…
Purton Devs 1
Swindon Wanderers 0
A crisp and cracking 35 yard free kick from Ben Mazzotta is the difference between the two teams 🔴🔴
FT from St Luke’s Academy…
Stratton Juniors Reserves 2
Purton Development 3
Purton goals from Ethan Harris,
@Dazherring1990
and
@tomjames1412
3 out of 3 for the Red Devs, all away.
MOTM: Ethan Harris
Next up:
@fc_lower
(H) 23/9 @ 2.30
#UTP
Great game of football down at the Red House yesterday afternoon.
Final score:
Purton Development 4
Purton Sunday 4
Devs goals from
@Dazherring1990
(2) Sam Bounds and
@jsky1022
Total raised for Paws For Pets was £232.50
Thank you to Kris & his Purton Sunday lads 🔴🫱🏻🫲🏼🔴
It’s match weekend at SN5…
🔴First up we welcome league leaders
@faringdontownfc
to the Red House for a 2.15 kick off in the
@WiltsLeague
🔴And tomorrow the Development team face
@Wesmeadfc
at the Red House, kicking off at 2.30
Pub and cafe open 🍺 🍔
Friendly for our Devs today…
Ridgeway Rovers Sat 0
Purton Devs 10
Purton goals:
@Dazherring1990
⚽️⚽️⚽️
Josh H⚽️
Barrett ⚽️⚽️
Levi Keunen ⚽️
Ben Langley ⚽️
@TheIGFH
⚽️
OG ⚽️
Fair play to
@Ridgewayrovers1
for not giving up.
Next up
@RedhouseFC
22/6 - 2pm Sevenfields
It’s a derby day win at the Red House in the
@WiltsLeague
Division One, this evening…
🔴 Purton 3
🟢 Cricklade Town 0
Purton goals:
@gwrona
⚽️
Dev Bryan ⚽️
Jacko ⚽️
Big win for the lads and the promotion hunt is well and truly on 🔴
Massive congratulations to our friends at
@PurtonWomensFC
on yet another incredible achievement.
We look forward to supporting you at the County Ground on the 14th April 🔴🔴
FT from the Red House
Purton Development 3
Marlborough Development 2
Purton goals from
@sebsmith1011
(2) & Matt Bennett
Good game of football and into the next round of the
@sdflswindon
challenge cup 🏆🔴
Thanks to
@MarlboroughTnFC
for leaving the changing room spotless
The draw for the semifinals of the
@sdflswindon
Challenge Cup has been made.
Premier league teams
@RedhouseFC
and
@ColeviewFC
will face each other. Should be a great game.
And in the other semi our young Purton Devs lads will face
@PoultonFC22
Both to be played 9th March 🔴
🔴 Match day at the Purton Red House as our Development team welcome
@SwindonOldBoys
🔴 Tough game expected against an experienced Wilts league vets team
🔴 7.15 kick off - pub on site
FT from Sevenfields…
FC Abbey Meads 0
Purton Development 7
Purton goals from
@Dazherring1990
(2)
Kain Chivers (2)
Will Miller
Sam Bounds
@tomjames1412
Great win, credit to Abbey Meads for battling throughout 🔴🔴
Big weekend of football…
Saturday sees our firsts, managed by Bassett legend Matt Bennett, make the short trip to
@RWBTFC
to face their Wilts Prem development team - 1.20pm ko
Then on Sunday our young development team will face
@SwissChaletFC
at the Purton Red House - 2.30 ko
🔴 Our young development team put in a stunning first half performance in front of our new first team manager Matty Bennett, yesterday.
🔴 We conceded 30 goals in 2 games against Stratton earlier in the season
🔴 1-4 defeat yesterday but massive progress is being made
#COYR
Good result for the reserves this morning.
Ferndale Rodbourne 1
Purton Reserves 5
Purton goals:
@Ashtxn_10
⚽️
Ben Langley ⚽️
@WillMiller2992
⚽️
Matty Hall ⚽️
Josh Haynes ⚽️
Thanks to
@FerndaleRodFC
for the game and good luck for the season ahead 🔴
🔴 18 at Sevenfields for another busy session tonight
🔴 Our Development team rebuild for 23/24 has seen the arrival of some first class talent with more to come
🔴 Great lads, great attitudes, and constantly improving
🔴 Today we welcome
@SwissChaletFC
to the Red House for a 2.30 kick off
🔴 Plenty of parking and a pub on site
🔴 First of 3 matches in 6 days for our Development Team
🔴 Both Purton teams in action today…
🔴 The Devs make the short journey to face
@StrattonJuniors
reserves away at 2.30
🔴 And the big
@WiltsLeague
clash of the day sees our first team welcome
@DevReservesFC
to the Red House at 3pm
Plenty of parking - cafe and pub open
It is the evening before our final match of our 23/24
@WiltsLeague
Division One season, and what a brilliant one it has been.
The hard work from Macca and Benno and everyone at Purton has paid off and we go into this big game with one eye on promotion.
It’s good to be back 🔴