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.