Curzon Ladies will hold their Annual General Meeting on Sunday 6th July at 11 am. All are welcome. Current players, prospective players, family, supporters and sponsors. The committee will give a review of the previous season and all the new exciting developments for the coming season. Pre season training will take place after the meeting.

 Agenda Document

Curzon Ashton Ladies win the Footie Chick national 5 a side tournament held at Star city in Birmingham at the weekend.

18 teams entered, with 3 groups of six with the top two and 2 best third places going into quarter finals.

Curzon Ladies won every group match convincingly and topped the group with 23 goals scored in 5 games and only 3 against.

Quarter final again saw a strong performance and a 4-0 score line.

Semi Final was a close game with Curzon coming out on top against Leafield from the Midlands 1-0

Final against the Liverpool team finished 2-2 and straight to sudden death pens. With the score at 2-2 Curzon miss and Liverpool only have to score to win but John Terry like hit the post and go wide, next Curzon score and Liverpool’s pen is saved by the Curzon keeper.

Curzon are crowned National 5 a side champions

League champions Curzon Ashton Ladies FC has announced Mark Bradshaw as the new manager to lead them in the next level in ladies soccer when they play in the top flight Northern Premier League this coming season

Mark, the club’s current sports development officer, started his playing career with Blackpool FC and went on to make over 500 senior appearances, including stints at York City, Macclesfield Town, Halifax Town and Stafford Rangers.

Mark has been a coach at Curzon Ashton for three years having set up a junior structure to support the ladies team, with six teams in various age groups. Last season Mark managed a team for the Greater Manchester Centre of Excellence for Girls, which is based at Curzon Ashton’s Tameside stadium.

Mark said: “I am really excited about this opportunity and look forward to the many challenges that lie ahead”.

Joining Mark in the dug-out next season will be new assistant manager Wayne Salkeld, who is a current junior coach and committee member of the club.

When you run a tournament for the first time you expect one or two hiccups along the way, but unfortunately for Curzon an accident in which all the winners Trophies were smashed to bits was an accident difficult to foresee.

But to the credit of all the teams involved in the presentation they took it in good sprit and of course replacements have been ordered and will be passed on. Whilst all the trophies were on display and the presentation was just about to start at the top of the stand, with winners and runners-up and some semi finalists as well, eager to receive their rewards for a day of very competitive tournament football, a roller shutter was activated and flipped the table the trophies were displayed on. All the medals and winners individual trophies were ok but all the large team trophies were beyond repaired.

The event of girls and ladies football was a massive success in terms of quality of football, effort and commitment of players, managers and parents. The weather was dull but didn’t dampen the girl’s sprit which was excellent and made for a great atmosphere in all groups. The U10 section, winners in a tight final were Manchester City with Preston North End runners up with the cruel penalty shoot out deciding it.

The U12 section was taken by host team Curzon Ashton Puma’s in a hard fought final with Moston Valley 2-1.The U14 section had Curzon Ashton cheering again with Preston North End runners up, both Curzon and Preston playing against their own teams in the semi finals. U16 and Preston North End came out on top with Burnley runners up this time. Ladies final was an all Curzon affair with the Curzon Allstars pippin the Curzon Ashton team in extra time.

On behalf of Curzon Ladies and Girls we would like to thank all participants and volunteer organizers from each Club for their outstanding behaviour, attitude, Help and Understanding in making the event a success, lessons will be learnt and improvements will make next years tournament bigger and better. WELL DONE EVERYONE.