Mid Sussex League
Mowatt Cup 1st Round
Saturday 26th September 2026
Kick Off 14.00 Actual 13.57
Oxted & District 2 Welcroft Park Rangers 4, attendance 16
7’ 0-1
17’ 0-2
28’ 1-2
76’ 1-3
82’ 1-4
88’ 2-4
@ Oak Farm Playing Field
Crawley Down Road
Felbridge
RH19 2RN
No Admission or Programme.
With their Master Park ground, in the village of Oxted itself, suffering pitch damage due to hosting a car boot sale on it, Oxted & District have had to play a couple of games elsewhere, with the ground here in Felbridge being chosen. I never got here when it was used by Felbridge, up until dropping out of the league towards the end of the 2023/24 season, so this was perfect for me. They’d played last week’s game here too, but a double in Norfolk was preferred then, but with today being the only other game, at present, scheduled here in Felbridge, then it was a must do game for me in my seemingly never ending quest to watch a game on every first team venue used in Sussex.
The ground is on the left hand side when heading out of Felbridge towards Crawley Down, adjacent to Felbridge Bowling Club. It’s just a single pitch, tree lined on three sides, with a small car park and changing room building and there are three tennis courts bordering the near touchline, just past the building.
The match was Division 1 North hosting Division 1 South. It was Welcroft who took a seventh minute lead, breaking quickly down the left and crossing for an unmarked finish from 6 yards. Ten minutes later they added a second, with an angled shot from the corner of the 18 yard box finding the far corner of the net. Oxted pulled one back before halftime, latching on to a long clearance, rounding the ‘keeper and rolling the ball into an empty net. Welcroft made it 1-3 with fourteen minutes left, breaking down the right and crossing for a tap in at the far post. Six minutes later they added a fourth, turning on the edge of the D and beating two defenders before shooting low into the far corner. Oxted did pull it back to 2-4 with a couple of minutes left, but it was nothing more than a consolation.
As you’d expect from a drive of barely half an hour, without use of motorways, no traffic problems in either direction.
