Mid Sussex League

Junior Charity Cup 2nd Round

Saturday 24th January 2026

Kick Off 16.00 Actual 16.02

Ifield 4 Old Oxted Town 3, attendance 41

14’ 1-0

21’ 2-0 (pen)

25’ 2-1

29’ 2-2

44’ 3-2

45’ + 2, 3-3

50’ 4-3

@ Oakwood School Sports Centre, 3G Pitch

Balcombe Road

Horley

RH6 9AE

No Admission or Programme.

It was an easy twenty five minute drive back into Surrey, to the northern outskirts of Horley, for the second game of the day and another game switched from the club’s normal home venue due to a waterlogged pitch. It’s a standard cage set up, with a spectator area along three quarters of one side and a pair of dugouts opposite.

The match pitted 3rd in Division 3 North against 2nd in Division 2 North, with both sides a real credit to their respective divisions and an end to end game for the entire ninety minutes. Ifield took a fourteenth minute lead, heading a corner from the left back across the six yard box, where it was swept in from close range. They doubled their lead with a penalty seven minutes later, but two goals in a four minute spell saw Old Oxted level the scores just before the half hour mark, heading in from a corner before a curled shot in off the far post made it 2-2. A quick breakaway goal saw Ifield regain the lead a minute before halftime, but the visitors pulled it back to 3-3 in stoppage time, finishing low into the far corner, after a through ball had split the defence wide open. Five minutes into the second half Ifield went back in front, when a 20 yarder deflected over the ‘keeper and despite pushing hard for an equaliser, the nearest Old Oxted came to levelling things up was when a shot on the turn hit the foot of the post, before being hacked clear, as we entered the last twenty minutes.

Mid Sussex League

Division 2 North

Saturday 24th January 2025

Kick Off 12.00 Actual 12.03

A.S. Crawley 9 Ifield Albion 0, attendance 17

2’ 1-0

6’ 2-0

36’ 3-0

45’ + 4, 4-0

46’ 5-0

55’ 6-0

59’ 7-0

78’ 8-0

83’ 9-0

@ The Forest School, 3G Pitch

Comptons Lane

Horsham

RH13 5NL

No Admission or Programme.

Once again a week with plenty of rain meant grass pitches may have been a risky option today, so a 3G pitch was the safest bet and this noon kick off (it was hosting Horsham Trinity’s home West Sussex League match at 2pm) was ideal, as it also offered the chance of picking up a double. The ground here at The Forest School is a standard cage set up, with three quarters of one side allocated to spectator viewing and a pair of plastic dugouts on the far side.

The match saw the league leaders, with a 100% winning record, host tenth in the table and it went as expected. Two goals in the opening six minutes saw the hosts race into a two goal lead, but it took them half an hour to add a third goal, before curing another in from the angle of the 18 yard box in stoppage time to give them a 4-0 lead at halftime. A close range tap in saw them score again a minute after the restart, with two more added before the hour mark. With twelve minutes left they added an eighth, followed by a shot on the turn into the far corner for number nine five minutes later. They were desperate to hit double figures, going full on for another goal, but somehow the Ifield defence held out, despite having their ‘keeper red carded late on, following a fracas after a foul on the edge of the box, that also saw each team have a player booked.