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Euxton Villa 2 Chadderton 4

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Euxton Villa (pronounced Exton) play about a mile away from Leyland where I spent many happy years trying to get educated.

HISTORY

Welcome to Euxton Villa FC, we play football at Jim Fowler Memorial Ground, Runshaw Hall Lane, Euxton, PR7 6HQ. The club was originally known as Euxton, playing in the West Lancashire League in 1907. The team led a nomadic existence playing in various locations in the village before finally buying three farmers fields in 1985. Since then the club merged with junior teams from the village and developed the current site. In 2002 we became an FA Community Club and proud to be one of the first 100 clubs in the country to attain this status. Our new club-house was officially opened in 2009 by Chorley MP, Lindsay Hoyle. This building came about as a result of years of fund raising and a grant from the Football Foundation.

In 2012 we were voted Chorley’s Community Club of the Year. In 2013 we were Lancashire’s FA Charter Standard Development Club of the Year and voted winners of the North West Region FA Charter Standard Development Club of the Year. A fantastic achievement of which we are very proud to receive these awards and are testament to the hard work and professional commitment of all volunteers at the club. It was also in 2013 that we entered, for the first time in the clubs history, two girls teams into the West Lancashire Girls Football League.

In 2019 Euxton Villa Fc were awarded tier 2 status and were delighted to be selected for the FA Community Pilot Scheme and become one of 150 clubs nationwide with this status .

We currently have 40 teams in addition to the Boys and Girls development groups. We also have strong links with Chorley Fc Women’. This means we are in the unique position of being able to offer a boy and girl pathway, from the age of 4 through to adult football, where both Ladies and Men’s teams play in the FA pyramid. All coaches are FA qualified and cleared to coach children. Our teams play in the West Lancashire Football League, FA Womens Premier League (Chorley Fc Women), Lancashire Evening Post Youth Division, Central Lancashire Football League, Mid Lancashire Colts Junior Football League, West Lancashire Girls League, Veterans Summer League


This is a new gropund for me, most surprising featues they have no floodlights therefore given the requirement for them in this league makes me wonder how they are going to play night game at home in November, miner's lamps like Workington fans did at Lancaster many years ago following an abandonment.
Decent sized car park, wanted to charge me full price, which I would have done gladly but paid the three pound old gadgers price.
Brew bought in the club house stood next to a familiar face Paul Scholes buying pie and peas as you do.
Nice little ground coupe of stands with the Blind Tigers Inn Stand being quaintly named and with a few of the Chaddie ultra's and a frigging drummer.
Euxton resplendent in Tangerine and Chaddie in Green and Black, Scholes son was one of the Chaddie Subs, there was also a liner who wore glasses.


Game wise Chaddie dominated the early stages with Mendes and Knight looking good players, Euxton unbeaten before today were distincly second best therefore after 25 minutes it was no surprise that the home side went ahead, Briggs burying a scorcher from about 20 plus yards. The goal gave the home side confidence and they dominated up to just before half time when they conceded two goals, first ball through the middle Knight scored, the second an inswinging corner Dale an old fashioned type of centre forward nodded home.
Second period Euxon started well, had one cleared from the line hit the post and finally equalised from a corner Darr at the back post from Briggs' deep corner.
They were not level for long, virtually straight from the kick off, foul in the box, penalty, Schofield did teh rest.
This time there was no comeback after Purfield fired home when a corner dropped to him and he fired home.
Euxton hit the post again and missed a sitter but the two goal margin didn't change and Chaddie go second above Euxton in the league