DURHAM ALLIANCE COMBINATION LEAGUE

A CHARTER STANDARD

DEVELOPMENT CLUB

PARTNERSHIP

OPPORTUNITIES

SEASON 2016-17

2010 / 2011

The Intermediates founded when former U18 manager and BTJFC

Secretary Peter Cooper and John Swanson came together to put together an adult team for the junior section. Both agreed that the Teesside league would be a good challenge and both had the same vision, to have a team where the players from the junior section could stay with the club once they had finished their junior football. The first season proved difficult on many levels; 42 players coming and going, organising a strip and pitches and most significantly the devastating death of Peter in October 2010. Ian Murray then the U18 manager joined the management team. A difficult season saw only 1 win in29 games... but the basis of a squad to go into the next season, and true to the philosophy that Peter had held, the majority had been former Junior players. 2011 / 2012

With a core of lads from the previous season and some of Ian's former U18

lads, the season looked to be full of promise, however the step up for the new lads and trying to gel the squads together saw the season start off where it finished the previous season, winless, however the results were encouraging. Once the team had it's first win under it's belt it went on an unbeaten run of 8 games. With the odd win/draw towards the end of the season...the results did not reflect the performances. The team had now started to develop a style of it's own, playing some attractive football, the highlight of the season had to be away to Northallerton Academy 2-0 down at half time, Town outplayed Northallerton to win 3-2 playing some great football, showing great character and both starting and finishing with 10 former Junior players... the foundation well and truly in place. Thanks to the hard work of Ian The team got new strips through a sponsorship agreement with RA DALTON. whose support is still much appreciated. 2012 / 2013

A more settled squad started the season playing a good style of football

however a string of long term injuries to key players disrupted the season. Again the squad struggled for points and goals but the last 9 games of the season saw a more settled team start to play the football it promised early on. The highlight being the 2-1 win at Lingdale the first team to defeat cham-pions (1 of only 2 clubs to do it) The season again saw progress both on and off the pitch with the addition to the coaching staff of goalkeeping coach Peter Laverick. The squad has 25 former junior players out of the 32 signed on continuing the philosophy that the team was set up to fulfil

2013 / 2014

We started the season at a new ground, Northfield sportsdrome and now

have the support of the Whitehouse Pub who provide after match refreshments, Massive thanks !!! Our Football continued to go from the

ridiculous to the sublime, some great moves and goals but games where we fell apart in sections of the game and got punished. This will happen with a young team but in the coming season we will look for those players now in their 5th season, even though they are still young, to step up to the plate. The season started off badly with Cooky suffering a double fracture but it did save us 3 points, happily Cooky started training at the end of the season. The emphasis was again on the SQUAD with Muzz starting to work shifts a massive loss for us after his early season form but that is why we needed numbers to turn up to games and training. We did progress off the field and on but again finished bottom ( Billingham Athletic resigning). Lav as leading goal scorer led the line well and finished 2nd highest scorer in Billingham behind Ash Lavan. As a team we need to be more clinical and punish teams mistakes like they punish ours.

For the first time we also produced a free match programme and developed to publishing it on-line

2014 / 2105 A NEW NAME… BILLINGHAM FC

Now going into our 5th season we welcome the 3rd group of young lads to come through from the juniors. Many have had a taste over the last couple of seasons on an ad-hoc basis and we will look to integrate them fully into the squad which I expect to be a little smaller this season but also a season wiser.

The season turned out to be more about developments off the field than on. We introduced Beth Pounder to the management team in the closed season. Beth is a qualified Sports Scientist and will deal with players injuries and rehabilitation. Beth is also a former Billingham Junior.

We held our 1st Golf day in August and this is now an annual event. We secured funding from the Teesside Philanthropic Society to enable us to buy training/ warm up kit for the whole squad. The press release featured in the Billingham Community News Paper and this led to a further grant from the Billingham Legacy Foundation which has enabled us to buy Rain jackets for the whole squad and 5 sub suits for the lads on the bench match days.

Thanks to hard work by Ian Murray we have also retained RA DALTON as a sponsor of our new home kit ( in the same style and colours as the juniors) and Klargester as new sponsors of our much

Teesside League Respect award (Fair Play) 2013/14

Teesside League Respect award (Fair Play) 2015/16

We have 459 facebook likes for our Facebook page

We have 1640 twitter followers

Formed in 2010 about to enter our 7th season

22 of our 30 man squad have played for our Junior Section

Including pre season we played 33 games last season

League games cover Durham, Consett, Bishop Auckland, West Auckland, Wallsend, Washington, Sunderland

In the County Cup and pre season we played teams from Hartlepool, Consett, Birtley, Wingate, Murton and South Shields

We held our third Golf Day for the entire club

We produced our first video

www.facebook.com/pages/

@BillinghamFC

www.pinterest.com/billinghamfc/

www.tumblr.com/billinghamFC

http://instagram.com/billinghamFC

We produce a FREE match day programme, “Blue Thru n Thru” for all home games which we also publish on-line.

We have handed out 210 programmes to opposition and officials

We average 63 on-line reads per issue, our highest being 110

Our programmes average 631 impressions

We are read in Ukraine, Spain, Serbia, USA, Ireland, Australia, Finland,

Singapore, Canada, Egypt, Holland, Ghana, Portugal, Bahrain,

Thailand, Ghana and Italy China, India, Belgium, France, Armenia,

Ukraine,, Indonesia, Khazakstan, Brazil, Poland

See for yourself at

http://issuu.com/swanny63

TRAINING KIT SPONSOR

for three seasons £400

Sponsors name or logo on the training kit

Company logo and link on the sponsors section on the official website

Quarter page add in the match day programme for 3 seasons

AWAY STRIP SPONSOR

(Yellow Shirts and shorts with royal blue trim)

for three seasons £450

Sponsors name or logo on the Away kit

Company logo and link on the sponsors section on the official website

Half page add in the match day programme for 3 seasons

TRACK SUIT SPONSOR

for Three seasons £750

Sponsors name or logo on the track suit

Company logo and link on the sponsors section on the official website

Full page add in the match day programme for 3 seasons

RAIN JACKET SPONSOR

for three seasons £400

Sponsors name or logo on the Rain Jackets

Company logo and link on the sponsors section on the official website

SOLD

SOLD

Perimeter board (8’X3’) £100 second season £50 includes free website thumb nail

Programme Advertising Full Season (also published on-line) £50

Programme Sponsor Logo on front covers, 1/2 page advert and free website thumbnail

Full Page £30

includes a free website thumbnail

Half Page £15

Quarter Page £10

Footer Banner £10

Footer Banner displayed in all 2014/15 programmes on a chosen page

Match Ball Sponsor (for six Games ) £15 detailed in programme

Player of the month Sponsor (for 8 months August > March)

Ideal for a pub/ restaurant (eg provide a meal for 2 as a prize)

Company logo and website thumb Nail

Full page add in the match day programme for 3 seasons

Player Sponsorship

Logo and name against the relevant player on the squad page

For further information or to discuss sponsorship opportunities please contact:-

John Swanson, Billingham FC Manager

07549011696

swansonjohns@msn.com