Month: April 2015

League Cup Semi Final Result – Dunston UTS

Shildon AFC Reached Their Second Cup Final

Shildon AFC reached their second cup final of the season with a hard fought 1 – 0 away victory to Dunston UTS on Tuesday 7th April 2015 in the semi-final of the Brooks Mileson Northern League Cup.

The Railwaymen had the edge of a non eventful first half, before they broke through just 3 minutes into the second half when a left foot shot from outside the box from Mark Doninger hit the post and rebounded off the keeper into the net.

After Shildon’s keeper Lewis Graham saved from captain Dave Coulson and Carl Jones blocked brilliantly from Lee McAndrews, Shildon nearly made it 2 – 0 with a Billy Greulich-Smith header going just wide.

Dunston pressed forward for the equaliser but Shildon held on with Lewis Graham punching over a shot from Dale Burrell in the last minute.

Final Score:  Dunston UTS  0  Shildon AFC  1

Goalscorer:  Doninger 48.

Subs: Richmond for Wood 39, Rundle for Hudson 88

After the match manager Gary Forrest said “The character and the attitude of the players tonight was first class. Considering how many players were missing through injury, this was a great result. Our only subs were Adam Rundle, Jack Taylor, Danny Richmond, who hasn’t kick a ball for months and Keith Finch. The team did us proud”.

Team

1) Lewis Graham
2) Jamie Harwood
3) Liam Atkin
4) Daniel Moore
5) Darren Craddock
6) Carl Jones
7) Mark Hudson
8) Sam Hodgson
9) Billy Greulich-Smith
10) Ben Wood
11) Mark Doninger

Subs

12) Adam Rundle on for Hudson
14) Jack Taylor
15) Daniel Richmond on for Wood
16) Keith Finch

Goal

Own Goal

Bookings

None

Man-of-The-Match

League Cup Semi Final – Dunston UTS Preview

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Venue

The UTS Stadium
Wellington Road
Dunston
Gateshead
Tyne & Wear
NE11 9JL

Match Day

7th April 2015
Kick Off: 19:30

Admission Prices
Adult – £ 5.00
Concession – £ 2.50

Current League Position –  6th ENL2
P 38  W 22  D 6  L 10  F 69  A 46  Pts 72

Last Match Played
4th April 2015
Dunston UTS 1 Morpeth Town 3

Last Time We Met
1st April 2015
Shildon 0 Dunston UTS 3

How Dunston got to the Semi Final

1st Round
Dunston UTS 2 Consett 1

2nd Round
Dunston UTS 2 Sunderland RCA 0

3rd Round
Dunston UTS 4 Stokesley Sports Club 2

Quarter Final
Dunston UTS 3 Penrith 2 (AET)

Facts

Founded: 1975
Nickname:
Record Attendance: 1,550, Sunderland Shipowners Cup Final 1/4/1988
Joined Northern League: 1991-92
Home Colours: Blue with white trim shirt, blue shorts and socks
Away Colours: 
Website: http://www.dunston-uts-fc.co.uk/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/dunstonutsfc
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dutsfc/

Club History taken from www.dunston-uts-fc.co.uk

A Brief History
The club first saw the light of day in 1975 as a humble works outfit when former Chairman, John Thompson, with some of his colleagues at HMSO on the Team Valley Trading Estate, decided to form a football team. The club joined the Newcastle City Amateur League and early success inspired the club to progress and a piece of land was leased from Gateshead M.B.C. and the committee began to develop what is now the UTS Stadium.The club were now gaining much success in the Northern Combination and with aspirations to progress further they approached the Federation Brewery to become the club’s main sponsor. With the Federation Brewery as their main sponsor the club joined the Wearside League in 1987 and after another period of success the club felt a need to seek new opportunities and an application was made to join the prestigious Northern League.
The club had now realised one of its main ambitions and entered the National Pyramid of Non League Football. In its second season in the Northern League the club won the Second Division and was promoted to the First Division. Since joining the Northern League the club has won the Second Division, been First Division Champions twice, League Cup winners on five occasions and JR Cleator Cup winners on five occasions. Included in these successes were back to back First Division title winners and League Cup winners in seasons 2003/2004 and 2004/2005. A magnificent achievement.

Champions Div 1 Cup
However the club’s greatest achievement came in the season 2011/2012, when the club won the coveted F.A. Carlsberg Vase. The Final was played at Wembley Stadium on Sunday 13th May 2012 againstfellow Northern League side West Auckland Town. Dunston won by two goals to nil.
Winning the Vase was a magnificent achievement and a reward for people who had been in the clubsince its formation in 1975 and also for manager Billy Irwin who had been with the club for fifteen yearsas player, captain, assistant manager and manager. The experience at Wembley is something we shall

never forget.

Season 2007/2008 had seen the club lose the word Brewery from its name as sadly it lost the main sponsor. After a period of 18 years of continuous sponsorship the Federation Brewery was taken over by Scottish and Newcastle Breweries who continued to sponsor the club for a further two seasons and after

a period of twenty years the club had lost its main sponsor and had no association with a brewery. In our

hour of need two new companies became involved with the club to partially compensate for the loss of our main sponsor. Dunston Van and Truck Centre became our home shirt sponsor and Astley Signs became our away shirt sponsor. Both companies are still with us at the present time.

 

Season 2008/2009 a company, UTS Engineering (Utility Technology Services), became involved by sponsoring the player’s travel and training kit and during the close season of 2009/2010 they kindly

agreed to become the club’s principal sponsor.

Northern League Cup
The club name was changed from Dunston Federation F.C. to Dunston UTS F.C., the name of the ground was changed to the UTS Stadium and company owner, Mr. Shaun Sadler became Club President.Over the years the club has always recognised that success on the field must be coupled with success and hard work off the field and the efforts of the people behind the scenes at the UTS Stadium has ensured that the stadium is a credit to the club. Many of the committee of the club have been involved since it was founded in 1975, some as former players and some as management on the playing side.It is a tribute to their commitment and hard work that the club has become one of the most successful in the North East.

 

Durham Challenge Cup Final – Result

Shildon  AFC Retain the Durham Challenge Cup

Shildon AFC retained the Durham Challenge Cup after a comfortable 2 – 0 win in the final against Gateshead FC, played in front of a crowd of 618 at the Hetton Centre on Friday 3rd April 2015.

The Railwaymen have now won the competition two years running, after waiting 42 years to win it last year.

Shildon took a  firm hold early on taking the lead on 11 minutes when Ben Wood burst through and squared the ball to Mark Doninger for him to sidefoot past keeper Alex Baird.

The Railwaymen’s defence were comfortably dealing with Gateshead’s isolated attacks.

A right wing cross from Ben Wood just failed to find the head of Billy Greulich-Smith, and just before the break a Wood left foot strike was punched out by the keeper.

Half Time:  Gateshead FC  0  Shildon AFC  1

On 50 minutes it was 2 – 0 to the Railwaymen when a loose pass from Gateshead’s Dillon Morse was picked up by Ben Wood whose precise pass found Billy Greulich-Smith who hammered low into the net.

On 55 minutes Gateshead’s first real opportunity fell to No 10 Jake Orrell in the 6 yard box, but Kyle Hayes pulled off a great save. Minutes later, the same player Jake Orrell beat the off side trap and was through, but once again the Shildon keeper made a tremendous stop with his feet, injuring himself in the process.

On the hour Bobby Moore missed a good opportunity to increase the lead, before Mark Doninger’s long range strike hit the post.

On 71 minutes Gateshead were down to 10 men when No 4 Dean Briggs received his 2nd yellow card.

For Shildon both Jack Taylor and Billy Greulich-Smith fired wide, and at the other end Gateshead’s Tom Marshall’s great point blank header from 10 yards brought an equally great save from Kyle Hayes.

Final Score:  Gateshead FC  0  Shildon AFC  2

Goalscorers:  Doninger 11, Greulich-Smith 50.

Subs:  Craddock for Scroggins 46, Ellison for Brackstone 46, Rundle for Taylor 79.

Bookings: (Y) Wood 16

After the match manager Gary Forrest said “This was a good team performance. We had some good chances and maybe could have scored a few more, nevertheless we got back to what we do best, that is pass the ball about. It was a comfortable win”.

Team

1) Hayes
2) Jamie Harwood
3) John Brackstone
4) Jack Taylor
5) Carl Jones
6) Daniel Moore
7) Sam Hodgson
8) Lee Scroggins
9) Mark Doninger
10) Ben Wood
11) Billy Greulich-Smith

Subs

12) Lee Chapman
14) Adam Rundle on for Taylor
15) Darren Craddock on for Scroggins
16) Liam Atkin
17) Marc Ellison on for Brackstone

Goals

Doninger, Greulich-Smith

Booking

Wood

Man-of-The-Match

Durham Challenge Cup Final – 3rd April

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** Dean Street Bar will be open from 8:00 am in the morning
** The Supporters bus will leave Dean Street at 9:45am (Pre-Booked seats only)

** Dean Street Bar will also be open on the return from the game

Venue

The Hetton Centre
Welfare Road
Hetton-le-Hole
DH5 9NE

Match Day

3rd April
Kick Off: 10:45 am

Admission Prices
Adult – £ 5.00
Concession – £ 2.00

How Gateshead got to the Final

1st Round
Gateshead 4 Sunderland West End 0

2nd Round
8th January 2015
Gateshead 2 Consett 0

Quarter Final
11th February 2015
Gateshead 4 Jarrow Roofing BCA1

Semi Final
4th March 2015
Gateshead 7 Easington 2

 

The History of Gateshead Football Club taken from www.gateshead-fc.com

The original Gateshead AFC was formed in 1930 when neighbours South Shields, members of the Football League’s old Third Division North, moved to Gateshead because of financial difficulties.

The newly formed ‘Tynesiders’ almost capitalised immediately on their good fortune when only Lincoln City’s superior goal average denied them promotion to the second division in just their second season of League football.

However, it was to be the FA Cup that was to provide the club with its finest hour when cup fever gripped the Tyneside town in 1953.

After accounting for Liverpool in the third round, Gateshead progressed to the quarter-final only for their Wembley aspirations to be denied by a single Nat Lofthouse goal for eventual finalists Bolton Wanderers.

A sell-out Redheugh Park crowd of 17,692 had witnessed the spectacle, but within five years the North Easterners were founder members of the newly formed Fourth Division after they missed the cut for the Third Division by just one point.

Despite an average placing of 9th in 21 Third Division North campaigns, interrupted by the second world war, two years after the introduction of the Fourth Division came Gateshead’s shock dismissal from the Football League.

The club had applied for re-election only once before in a relatively successful 30-year period, but were unceremoniously cast aside in favour of the more geographically favourable Peterborough United in 1960.

Gateshead had finished third bottom with both Oldham Athletic and Hartlepools United below them, but polled only 18 votes and were unjustly voted out of the League.

An unsuccessful bid to join the Scottish Football League was followed by a brief spell in the Northern Counties League and then six years in North Regional League.

In 1968 Gateshead became founder members of the Northern Premier League, but their stay in the new competition lasted only two years.

Their place was, ironically, taken by another demoted Football League outfit, Bradford Park Avenue, and Gateshead were forced to replace their own reserve side in the Wearside League.

Finishing as runners-up the Tynesiders then had two seasons in the Midland League until in 1973, seven leagues and 43 years after its inception, Gateshead AFC ceased to exist.

A new club called Gateshead Town played the following season in the local Northern Combination League but, astonishingly, history was soon to repeat itself.

South Shields, then members of the Northern Premier League, sold their Simonside headquarters and moved to a new home at Gateshead Stadium.

Renamed Gateshead United the club soon became a force in the Northern Premier League while accounting for Football League clubs Grimsby Town and Crewe Alexandra in the FA Cup.

However, in 1977, after only three years of operation, came the shock announcement that United were to disband – the third body blow to hit Gateshead supporters inside two decades.

It looked like the end of senior football in the town until another phoenix, this time in the form of the currentGateshead FC, rose from the ashes in 1977.

Replacing Gateshead United in the Northern Premier League for the 1977-78 season the new club won the Championship in 1983 with a record 100 points and 114 goals.

After two years in the Conference, the Tynesiders returned to the Northern Premier League and lifted the title for the second time in 1986.

Their second spell in the Conference lasted just one season, though they were quick to bounce back, and reclaimed their place at the top table of non-league football in 1990.

The accustomed role of top flight strugglers was transformed with 7th and 5th place finishes in successive campaigns, 1994/95 and 1995/96, as well as three quarter-final appearances in the FA Trophy in four seasons.

A productive period ended in 1998 when the club was relegated back to the Northern Premier League after eight consecutive seasons of Conference football.

The Heed’s very existence was then threatened early in the new millennium when long-time sponsors Cameron Hall Developments pulled out.

Relegation to the Northern Premier League 1st division followed but, after one season, Gateshead were back in the NPL top tier following the introduction of a geographically split 1st division.

The future for a club with a proud, if somewhat chequered, past took a turn for the better when wealthy Gateshead-born businessman, Graham Wood, took over in 2006.

Gateshead finished third in the UniBond Premier division, NPL, in 2007-8 when they were joint-top goalscorers in the top ten divisions of senior English football, including the Premiership and Football League.

Gateshead struck 93 league goals and beat Buxton 2-0 in the play-off final in front of a four figure crowd at the International Stadium

Back-to-back promotions were achieved when the rejuvenated Tynesiders claimed runners-up spot in the Conference North, where they finished joint-top scorers with 81 goals.

Gateshead beat AFC Telford United 1-0 in the Conference North play-off final in front of a 4,000 plus crowd on Tyneside to reach the Conference Premier.

The first campaign back in non-league’s elite division, 2009/10, proved to be a difficult one with top flight status only retained on the final day of the season on goal difference.

Gateshead then marked the 50th anniversary of their harsh expulsion from the Football League by again becoming a full-time professional club in 2010.

The following season brought a 14th place finish and a place in the semi-final of the FA Trophy for the first time, the Heed then finishing 8th in 2011/12 while reaching the last eight of the Trophy.

The next campaign, however, saw chronic pitch problems at the International Stadium, which resulted in half of their home games being staged at seven different grounds – and 17th place in the table.

Last season, however, Gateshead recorded their highest placing in English Football since their Football League days and reached Wembley for the first time in their 84-year history.

The Heed finished third and attracted their biggest crowd for a competitive game at the International Stadium, 8,202, for the play-off semi-final second-leg win over Grimsby.

They had reached the Conference Premier play-offs for the first time, but hopes of reclaiming League status after more then five decades ended at Wembley in front of a near 20,000 crowd in May.

Gateshead lost the Conference Premier Promotion Final 2-1 against Cambridge United – and will now look to go one better in 2014/15.

 

By Jeff Bowron

ENL1 – Dunston UTS Result

Match Report To Follow

Team

1) Kyle Hayes
2) Marc Ellison
3) Adam Rundle
4) Lee Scroggins
5) Daniel Moore
6) Darren Craddock
7) Mark Hudson (C)
8) Sam Hodgson
9) Paul Connor
10) Ben Wood
11) Billy Greulich-Smith

Subs

12) Jason Blackburn
14) Carl Jones
15) Liam Atkin
16) Mark Doninger
17) Lee Chapman

Booking

Ellison

Man-of-The-Match