After a year’s hiatus, Youth Team football returns to Champion Hill with Dulwich Hamlet resuming playing membership of the Southern Youth League. Who can forget the unprecedented success of recent years when Dulwich twice won their division and went on from there to achieve even greater success clinching the overall Championship in the end of season playoffs in 1998 and 1999? In 1998, Dulwich also reached the final of the League Cup, but were defeated by Chipstead in a stormy final at Kingstonian.
Those teams have also seen the likes of Veli Hakki, Dean Palmer, Michael Azzopardi, Michael Ebanks and Marcus Dussard step up into the First Team. Previous to them the Youth Team had also featured the likes of Steve Watts, now with Leyton Orient, Carl Cort and Tommy Tyne, plying their trade at The Den, and Marlon King, recently signed by Gillingham for £250,000 from Barnet.
Attempting to emulate the success of Micky Read and latterly Steve King, John Kasapi will be steeping into some very big shoes as he takes charge of Dulwich Hamlet Youth in the Southern Youth League. He comes to us via Welling United, where his under 16’s achieved much success in the Kent Youth League. Obviously the first season will be a learning experience as the intention is start with primarily an Under 17 side, but in re-establishing the team, the hope it that more success will follow. As proved in the past the opportunity is there for players to progress through the ranks.
This season Dulwich will be competing in the Central Division alongside Banstead Athletic, Carshalton Athletic, Chipstead, Croydon FC, Kingstonian, Sutton United, Tooting & Mitcham, Walton & Hersham, Whyteleafe and Woking. Home games are on Wednesdays at Champion Hill usually with a 7-30 p.m. kick off and admission costs a mere £2 (£1 concessions), extremely good value for money since this also includes a programme. You may even gain bragging rights when you can state to your chums, ‘I saw so-and-so in the Youth Team before he made the First Team’.
Those teams have also seen the likes of Veli Hakki, Dean Palmer, Michael Azzopardi, Michael Ebanks and Marcus Dussard step up into the First Team. Previous to them the Youth Team had also featured the likes of Steve Watts, now with Leyton Orient, Carl Cort and Tommy Tyne, plying their trade at The Den, and Marlon King, recently signed by Gillingham for £250,000 from Barnet.
Attempting to emulate the success of Micky Read and latterly Steve King, John Kasapi will be steeping into some very big shoes as he takes charge of Dulwich Hamlet Youth in the Southern Youth League. He comes to us via Welling United, where his under 16’s achieved much success in the Kent Youth League. Obviously the first season will be a learning experience as the intention is start with primarily an Under 17 side, but in re-establishing the team, the hope it that more success will follow. As proved in the past the opportunity is there for players to progress through the ranks.
This season Dulwich will be competing in the Central Division alongside Banstead Athletic, Carshalton Athletic, Chipstead, Croydon FC, Kingstonian, Sutton United, Tooting & Mitcham, Walton & Hersham, Whyteleafe and Woking. Home games are on Wednesdays at Champion Hill usually with a 7-30 p.m. kick off and admission costs a mere £2 (£1 concessions), extremely good value for money since this also includes a programme. You may even gain bragging rights when you can state to your chums, ‘I saw so-and-so in the Youth Team before he made the First Team’.
Before the season starts there are a number of friendlies – brief details below:
Sunday 13th August: Thamesmead Town (A)
Wednesday 17th August: Holmesdale (A)
Sunday 20th August: Swanley Furness (A)
At the moment I am lacking the full details re kick-offs and locations although I hope to include these in the Spurs programme. The season then kicks off in earnest on Sunday 27th August with a trip to Sutton United. This is followed by another friendly game although details are still being finalised. The first home game is the following Wednesday when Carshalton Athletic are our guests here at Champion Hill. Come along and cheer on the Hamlet stars of the future.
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