A YOUTHFUL Trafford side slipped to a 1-2 defeat to Chadderton in their Manchester FA Premier Cup tie this evening.
Behind after just 4 minutes, the Trafford XI showing 9 changes from Saturday’s starting line up with a number of Reserve players involved gaining experience, got into their rhythm and Jack Donohue equalised before half time.
Despite a good performance from the youngsters, Chadderton took the win with a goal in the 73rd minute at a freezing Shawe View in front of 123 frozen spectators.

“The Sportsman” visited our 1st team squad’s training session on Thursday evening, and filmed a feature about the club plus an interview with manager Danny Caldecott. It’s up on YouTube so follow this link for something to whet your appetite in a “Football Focus” style, ahead of the big cup game at the Home Estates Shawe View tomorrow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maofns6Znz0

The magazine’s reporter Conor Keane, has also written an article about the game which can be read by following this link:

https://www.thesportsman.com/articles/why-the-fa-cup-means-so-much-to-non-league-clubs-like-trafford-fc

Kick off is 3pm on Saturday (6th August); The gates are open at 1pm, £9 full admission with £6 concessions and £2 for under 16’s. Avoid the queues by purchasing match tickets from Shocal.com – all adult tickets receive a FREE downloadable programme!

Trafford kick off the new NPL season in style with a 3-0 win at Congleton; Rio Clegg, Mike Burke, and Eoin Hogan the goalscorers. Manager Karl Marginson had the following to say about the performance of his players:

“An all round really good performance with a fantastic work ethic that enabled our players to overcome a difficult test and play some great football to boot. To a man they were magnificent. It’s very early days and the tests will keep coming thick and fast, but we’ll accept any challenge that’s in front of us and give it our best.”

Dave Law’s match report will follow very soon…….

JAMES NEILD was voted October’s Trafford FC “Player of the Month” by members of the Supporters Club. Here he is before Saturday’s game versus 1874 Northwich being presented with his prize of four bottles of Lucozade Sport by SC members Liam Gallagher and Joshua Anthony. Well done James!!!

Today’s game at Avro was abandoned due to poor weather conditions – in the second half, the thickening fog made it impossible to see the full playing area, so the referee had no choice but to abandon the game. You may also be aware that there was a medical emergency in the second half which delayed the game for a period of time – this incident involved our very own Graham Foxall who was taken ill and has this evening gone to hospital. Obviously we send our very best wishes to Graham and his family. Everybody at Trafford FC hopes and prays that “Foxy” makes a speedy and full recovery.

Our pre-season fixtures are all now confirmed!

DC’s team prep games in the run up to the 2023-24 season are as follows:

Sat 8th July, Curzon Ashton (Home)
Tue 11th July, Cheadle Heath Nomads (Away)
Sat 15th July, Warrington Rylands (Home)
Tue 18th July, New Mills (Away)
Sat 22nd July, Ashton United (Home)
Tue 25th July, Chadderton (Away)
Sat 29th July, Atherton Collieries (Home)
Sat 5th August, Radcliffe (Home) *Subject to FA Cup Draw

The new NPL season will start on 12th August.

TRAFFORD registered a 4-2 win today (Saturday 30th July) in their final home pre-season fixture against National League side Spennymoor Town. Dave Law’s match report will be up on this website in the next few hours, so keep clicked on for that…….
Our final pre-season game is this Tuesday away at Stalybridge Celtic , kick off 7.45pm

Trafford FC President David Brown has been presented with a 50 Years’ Service Award by the Football Association for his amazing contribution to non-league football.
David began his journey in grassroots football back in the early 1970s with Old Urmstonians in the Lancashire and Cheshire League both as a player and member of the committee.
He then moved to Flixton Football Club in 1985 before becoming a founder member of Trafford Football Club, formerly known as North Trafford, in 1990.
Initially, David was Vice-Chairman and Football Secretary at the Urmston based club but he then became Chairman and was a driving force in the club’s development of their Shawe View ground and their subsequent meteoric rise up the non-league pyramid.
In 2000 David moved house to the North Lancashire area and relinquished his Chairman’s position but still made the journey down to Urmston several times each week.
And for his magnificent contribution towards the development of the club he was made President.
The photograph above shows David receiving his 50 Year Service Award from John McLellan-Grant, Chairman of the Manchester Football Association.

TRAFFORD’S NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE fixtures have been released this evening (Thursday 18th July).

Playing in the League’s West Division, Karl Marginson’s team kick off their league campaign with a visit to newly promoted Congleton Town on Saturday August 10th.

The first home fixture is on Tuesday August 13th when Bootle are the visitors to the AwayDayCare Shawe View.

The August Bank Holiday sees us entertain Widnes on Saturday 24th, followed two days later by a trip to Stalybridge Celtic (Monday 26th August).

On November 16th we make the long trip to visit a team we haven’t played since we were in the NPL Premier Division ten years ago – Stafford Rangers.

The Christmas / New Year period lines up as follows:
21st December – Congleton Town (Home)
Boxing Day – Avro (Away)
New Year’s Day – Stalybridge Celtic (Home)
January 4th – Bootle (Away)

The Easter weekend sees the team travel to Hanley Town on Saturday 19th April, then on Easter Bank Holiday Monday we host Avro at Shawe View.

The League season concludes on Saturday 26th April away at Widnes.

The FULL list of league fixtures can be seen by following this link: https://www.traffordfc.com/teams/229443/fixtures-results

Don’t forget we have some cup games coming up too – we’ll publicise them separately. And don’t forget ALSO that our pre-season friendly programme continues this Saturday 20th July with a home game versus Bury FC kick off 3pm.

Trafford FC is proud to be working with Trafford Veterans CIC, and we were really pleased to see a recent article about the group, and our links with them, on the website “Terraces and Troops”. Below is a link to the article so you can read it for yourself.

https://www.terracesandtroops.co.uk/trafford-football-club/

Claire and Chris, the two ex-service personnel who founded Trafford Veterans in 2015, can often be seen at Trafford home games. We as a club are massively proud to have the flags of the three armed forces hanging up at our stadium. Long may this continue!

If you’d like to contact Trafford Veterans, their website is www.traffordveterans.org