Burton Junior Football League

 

BJFL Founded 1988


Welcome to the Burton Junior Football Leagues Website.

A Charter Standard League

A sad Farewell and 10 years and counting

 

Bron Moss

Bron joined the BJFL Committee in September 2005 and was initially responsible for sourcing some funding for the then popular BJFL Representative squads, when this project was eventually ‘mothballed’ Bron became Commercial Secretary with a primary role of league funding/sponsorship and marketing. On announcing her retirement Bron was honoured in May 2012 with the Honorary Vice President position. Bron will be missed by all of us on the Committee. Malc Wheildon thanked Bron for all of her hard work and dedication over the past 7 years.

 

Bron receiving her farewell gift and award from Chairman Malc Wheildon.

 

Mark Smith

Mark Smith joined the BJFL Committee over 10 years ago and has been an invaluable member of the team. In recent years Mark has been the main Saturday Junior Football columnist for the Burton Mail, taking time every week to keep all of our members up-to-date with results and details of fixtures.

Mark received his 10 year award from Chairman Malc Wheildon at a recent function.

 

 

A massive thank you to everyone who help to make it happen - players, parents, managers, the BJFL committee and all our sponsors :-

 

East Staffordshire Borough Council, Admen, Arriva Midlands, Brian Mole, Burton Albion, Burton Kia, DNS Building Services, Footymums.com, Handprint & Design, Hardy Signs, Holidays Direct, K L Engineering, Marley Eternit, McDonalds Stretton, MFSS, Roger Bullivant, TAG, Taylor Made Carpets and Winshill Soccer School.

 

This site is dedicated to all the activities of the BJFL.  Our main focus is to present you all with up to date information with regards to junior football in and around Burton-on-Trent.

 
There is a message forum where you will find information regarding meetings, match reports and general BJFL information.  This site also has a direct link to FullTime where all the BJFL fixtures and tables are updated regularly. We currently provide football for more than 300 teams from 4 Counties, youth (U13 - U18), Mini-soccer (U7- U10) and 9v9 at U11 & U12.
 
The aim of the BJFL is to bring a safe, positive and competitive environment for grassroots football.
 
Thank you for your continued support
BJFL Management Committee
 

 

A Brief History

 

Reformed in 1988 after being out of existence for some 5 years when it was disbanded by some thoughtless individuals who didn’t want to see local children enjoy themselves playing football in a controlled environment, the BJFL has finally managed to claw back and add to the teams who left in those dark days turning it into the successful league it is today.

Various Chairman and Committee members have come and gone during the last 20 or so years, but following the introduction of Mini or Small Sided Soccer piloted by the current Chairman in the 98/99 Season the league has hardly looked back.

In that season the league had some 37 teams playing Sunday afternoons from ages U12 to15 plus the first U9 Mini Soccer, 16 teams playing 7-a-side all at one venue (Belvedere Park) every Saturday morning.

Since then the committee has been built up into a hardworking unit with 13 people giving up their spare time to devote themselves into ensuring that the children of Burton and the surrounding area’s have one of the best leagues in the Midlands and who knows even the Country to play in.

In the last twelve years the league has continuously grown and now boasts nearly 300 teams with almost 4,500 players coming from 50 different clubs from various locations including Ashbourne, Ashby, Derby, Rocester, Uttoxeter, Snareston, Barton and Lichfield to name but a few.

All this activity costs a lot of money to keep it running smoothly and with the hiring of multiple venues for the Saturday morning Mini and 9 v. 9 Soccer we are obviously always looking for NEW Sponsors to help us in our quest to provide all the players with a secure and safe environment for them to play their football.

So let’s hope we get our wish with more facilities being made available to us and we secure some new sponsors to help us achieve our goals.

To this end should anyone wish to sponsor the BJFL no matter how small or large their contribution then please contact Bron Moss and also for any new venues/facilities please contact myself or Mark Jones all details can be found on the contacts page of this Web Site.

 

 

Malc Wheildon

Chairman



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