If you currently play in our Woodley Wednesday league, I’m afraid we have some bad news. After 4 years, and (to date) 465 league games, the Woodley Wednesday league will be finishing at the end of July.
This is not down to anything that we have done, it is basically down to a agreement between Life Leisure and Stockport County which has resulted in County putting some funding up for improvements to the facility, but they wanted access to more pitch time, including our two pitches on a Wednesday evening,
We’ve known for a few weeks that this was likely to happen, which has made running the current league a little difficult. But for the remainder of the time, here is how we plan to finish up the two divisions, and what we can hopefully offer as alternatives to our current teams.
PREMIERSHIP
We had a couple of drop outs early in the season, and because we had this issue hanging over us, we decided that with us being up against the clock, we would run the top division as a division of 6 with each team playing twice, making up a 10 week season.
CHAMPIONSHIP
With the Championship being a division of 8, and with us having the same time frame issues, this league will involve all teams playing each other once, then splitting top 4 and bottom 4 for a second round of fixtures, again making it a 10 game season.
We are currently on track to get all games finished by the 28th July, which is the last night of our booking.
ALTERNATIVES
Life Leisure were keen to offer up what limited pitch space they had to make up for us losing our Wednesday slot, so from August, here’s what we will be able to offer.
BRAND NEW TUESDAY LEAGUE
- Kicking off Tuesday 1st August
- One division (on one pitch)
- Kick off times of 8pm, 8.40pm & 9.20pm
THURSDAY LEAGUE
Our existing Thursday league will be finishing up towards the end of July too, so there could be options for teams to move across to Thursday where the format of the league is the same as the Wednesday league has been for the last few years (two divisions, kick off times between 7pm & 9.15pm). We currently have a couple of spaces in the top division of the Thursday league, but if the league is finishing up and restarting around the end of the Wednesday season, we should be able to find room in the right division for teams.
Unfortunately, the spaces we have are going to be limited, so we can’t guarantee being able to re-home every team straightaway, but if you want to check with the lads and let us know what your preference would be, we will try and accommodate you.
We’re gutted to be losing this league, we’re sorry to all our current Wednesday teams, and we’d like to thank every team who’s helped us keep this league thriving over the last 4 years.
See you on another night!