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Coalville Town resign from league
Sad day for anyone connected with Coalville Town football club. The chairman resigns and they resign from the Southern League Central Premier Division. It just makes you wonder how many other clubs are really starting to feel the pinch and are getting close to a situation like this.
Coalville Town Football Club, Club Statement - Chairman Steps Down (coalvilletownfc.co.uk)
Who can forget this game against Coalville the season before last in the Southern League Premier Central? Jamie Ward’s first game as manager. I remember Arlott-John scoring, might have been his first game as well?
Match Report: Coalville Town v Ilkeston Town on Tuesday, 13 Sept 2022 - The Southern League (southern-football-league.co.uk)
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This is a major shock as Coalville were big club. Like so many clubs they were totally reliant on a chairman keep putting money in.
DATE: FRI 24 MAY 2024
BY JASON MILLS NEWS |
COALVILLE TOWN RESIGNATION
The Pitching In Southern League today received an unexpected email from Coalville Town FC advising that it was resigning from the Southern Football League with immediate effect.
Filling the vacancy in Premier Division Central will be the responsibility of the FA Alliance Committee, with any news being announced when available to do so.
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I'm glad we are taking steps now. so we are not in the same place as them
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What steps are we taking that will stop the same happening to us?
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It’s sad for Leicestershire in general that teams cannot run a club at this level. Loughborough Dynamo and now Coalville Town have given up whilst still running ladies and youth teams. It may be because bothered appear to have been bankrolled by one man and that man does not the spare cash anymore. In past times if the money man pullled out that would have been the end for everything. However youth and I believe Ladies football benefit from government money in the form of grants etc. this means that clubs can still run the youth and Ladies set ups without incurring heavy losses.
it does look like Leicestershire could become a non league backwater a bit like Nottinghamshire has over theI last ten years ie Eastwood Town, Arnold Town, Gedling Town, Sutton Town, Hucknall Town, Retford Town etc
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COALVILLE TOWN FC - FURTHER STATEMENT
Further to the recent announcement that Coalville Town had resigned from the Southern League, efforts were made to enter the club at Step 6 in the English National League System. Due to the timings of the announcement,
The FA set the club a 72 hour deadline to submit their proposal for entry into a league along with a business plan to show the club will be sustainable.
The plans were submitted on Friday 31st May and we are pleased to confirm that today The FA unanimously supported our proposal and as such Coalville Town will be placed in the United Counties League Division 1 for the 2024/25 season.
We would like to thank The FA for their support. We would also like to thank Andy Walsh of the National Foobtall Supporters Association who’s help in getting us through he process was invaluable. We hope to announce a new Football Manager in the coming days and we will be holding a supporters meeting later this week to outline the plan for the season. The messages of support from our own supporters and fans of other Non-League clubs has been overwhelming and we thank them for that. This is just the first step but we are delighted to be able to offer the people of Coalville and the surrounding area the opportunity to still have a club to support.
Alan Poulain, Chairman of the United Counties League, looks forward to welcoming Coalville Town FC into the UCL family. He said “The Leagues position is and always has been to facilitate the playing of football in our area and we will do our utmost to make Coalville Town FC stay in our League a pleasant competitive experience.” The club will be making further announcements in the coming days.
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hopefully they will get back to where they belomg but its going to be a long hard struggle.