Mid Sussex League
Championship Division
Saturday 18th April 2026
Kick Off 14.00 On Time!
Wivelsfield Green 1 Cuckfield Town 3, attendance 22
10’ 0-1
23’ 1-1
24’ 1-2
68’ 1-3
@ The Arc Centre for Outdoor Sport, Pitch 4
West End Farm Avenue
Burgess Hill
BN6 9HH
No Admission or Programme.
After clocking up a fair few miles in midweek, it was nice to get a local game in today and at a recently opened venue. I’d sent a text to the home club, which was returned as a phone call from their very helpful secretary, confirming that the game was going ahead okay and that it was on a grass pitch at The Arc Centre (there’s also a new 3G pitch here), rather than at their normal home venue in Bolney, where the pitch is currently unplayable. The game was played on Pitch 4, which is to the left of driveway/car park as you enter the complex. The changing room building is further on, adjacent to two 3G pitches (one football, one rugby), but I didn’t venture this far.
It was 6th versus 3rd in the league table, both in with a chance of picking up one of the promotion places behind champions elect Hurstpierpoint. Cuckfield went ahead after ten minutes, when a ball cut back from the right was finished at the far post. Wivelsfield levelled midway through the half, when a corner from the right was headed down and flicked past the ‘keeper from a couple of yards out. Straight from the restart the visitors regained the lead, when a ball through the middle was finished low past the ‘keeper. The second half was end to end, with the hosts hitting the crossbar just after the hour mark, before the visitors made it 1-3 with just over twenty minutes left, when a corner from the right was knocked down and hooked in right in front of the ‘keeper. A sin bin five minutes later extinguished any hopes of a home come back and the visitors comfortably held on to take all three points. It sees them move up to second in the table with one game left to play. Both AFC Uckfield Town Reserves and Sovereign Saints could still pip them though, as they still have a game in hand and are trailing by two and four points respectively.
