About Farcet United Football Club and Our History
Farcet United-Reborn
From the year 1900 (as far back as we dare go) there has been a Farcet United playing in the local league on Saturdays. In 1899-1900 they won the Hunts Senior FA cup for the only time and in the same year they were also the champions in the Hunts Junior cup. We have to wait until the 1949/50 season for the clubs next success when they won the Hunts Benevolent Cup.
We know that Farcet United played well into the 1960's but as the team grew old together, the club soon died.
But in 1992 when John Prince along with a Stanground school teacher, a Peterborough Utd youth leader and a Farcet parent, started Farcet Colts and were entered into the league for the 1993/94 season .
The first season back in league football was a minor disaster, fifteen youngsters under 11 years of age thrown into a league that they were not ready for, and although they did manage to win a couple of games but the defeats by far outweighed the victories, some being as big as 10, 11 and 12 - nil.
The lads didn't get disheartened and turned up for the 1994/95 season fit and raring to go, sadly the parent and the school teacher fell by the wayside.
No trophies of any sort came until the 1997/98 season when in division 3 of the Under 16’s youth league they went through the season only losing 1 and drawing 2 out of 24 games but they still had to go to Wisbech on the final day of the season to win the title which they did.
In the Following year Andy Wagstaff started an under 10's team and 95% of that original team were still together when they finished at the end of the 2006/07 season. Andys team are the biggest trophy winners with the club, they won 3 Junior Alliance divisional titles and 2 youth league titles. We also in that time had another junior youth team put together by Andy Black which also won junior and youth team titles and when it became to much for Andy, Steve Johnston nurtured some of the squad into senior mens Sunday football culminating in a divisional win in the 2003/04 season. Since then the team has risen from Div 5 to Div 1 very rapidly. David French who played in this side has come back to now manage the side and hopefully take it into the Premier Division of the PSMFL
One of Johns proudest moments was when a young lad of 13 asked him if Farcet had a team he could play for, sadly we hadn't. But John saw he had a fierce competitive gleam in his eye so he told him that if he could get 14 names to him within 14 days he would get them into the league. Six days later he was back, 14 names signed and delivered, plus a manager - Dad . A kit washer (his Mum) and sponsor, so a few weeks later in a splendid orange and black kit Sam Rausch presented his Farcet Team to the world. Eight months later they were league champions. That team will always be known as "The Team That Sam Built" and finally finished with 3 sucessive league titles. Since then Sam has moved to New Zealand and is playing at semi-pro level and has had trials for the New Zealand national under 19 side.
In the early years of this century we attempted to run a Saturday team, in their first season they managed a top 5 finish in the league and a Cup Final appearance in the PFA Junior Cup. The following season another top 6 finish also culminated in a Cup Final appearance in the Hunts Junior Cup against local rivals Stilton. After going 1 - 0 down to an early goal, an inspiring performance from Matt Prince pulled our team through, equalising their goal himself, then after Stilton had scored again, setting up Nick Heyes with the equaliser, and then with 5 minutes to go netting the winner. The team after that suddenly dropped out of the league causing the club a lot of expense and fines we were still trying to recover from upto two years ago.
After a couple of poor seasons and teams getting to the age where girls and beer are more important, in the season 2008/09) we only had three teams competing with Andy Cooper doing a fantastic job with the under 15's and two new managers, Andy Sharpe now manager of the Sunday first team, and Simon Alexander taking charge of the Reserves, with Danny Salmon taking the role as Chair after two seasons as first team manager. John Prince is still club secretary and we hope that this young blood is what the club needs to revive it again and make it force in local football, one day you never know we might have the next Rooney, DaSilva or Beckham playing for us until then we just keep on going.
From the year 1900 (as far back as we dare go) there has been a Farcet United playing in the local league on Saturdays. In 1899-1900 they won the Hunts Senior FA cup for the only time and in the same year they were also the champions in the Hunts Junior cup. We have to wait until the 1949/50 season for the clubs next success when they won the Hunts Benevolent Cup.
We know that Farcet United played well into the 1960's but as the team grew old together, the club soon died.
But in 1992 when John Prince along with a Stanground school teacher, a Peterborough Utd youth leader and a Farcet parent, started Farcet Colts and were entered into the league for the 1993/94 season .
The first season back in league football was a minor disaster, fifteen youngsters under 11 years of age thrown into a league that they were not ready for, and although they did manage to win a couple of games but the defeats by far outweighed the victories, some being as big as 10, 11 and 12 - nil.
The lads didn't get disheartened and turned up for the 1994/95 season fit and raring to go, sadly the parent and the school teacher fell by the wayside.
No trophies of any sort came until the 1997/98 season when in division 3 of the Under 16’s youth league they went through the season only losing 1 and drawing 2 out of 24 games but they still had to go to Wisbech on the final day of the season to win the title which they did.
In the Following year Andy Wagstaff started an under 10's team and 95% of that original team were still together when they finished at the end of the 2006/07 season. Andys team are the biggest trophy winners with the club, they won 3 Junior Alliance divisional titles and 2 youth league titles. We also in that time had another junior youth team put together by Andy Black which also won junior and youth team titles and when it became to much for Andy, Steve Johnston nurtured some of the squad into senior mens Sunday football culminating in a divisional win in the 2003/04 season. Since then the team has risen from Div 5 to Div 1 very rapidly. David French who played in this side has come back to now manage the side and hopefully take it into the Premier Division of the PSMFL
One of Johns proudest moments was when a young lad of 13 asked him if Farcet had a team he could play for, sadly we hadn't. But John saw he had a fierce competitive gleam in his eye so he told him that if he could get 14 names to him within 14 days he would get them into the league. Six days later he was back, 14 names signed and delivered, plus a manager - Dad . A kit washer (his Mum) and sponsor, so a few weeks later in a splendid orange and black kit Sam Rausch presented his Farcet Team to the world. Eight months later they were league champions. That team will always be known as "The Team That Sam Built" and finally finished with 3 sucessive league titles. Since then Sam has moved to New Zealand and is playing at semi-pro level and has had trials for the New Zealand national under 19 side.
In the early years of this century we attempted to run a Saturday team, in their first season they managed a top 5 finish in the league and a Cup Final appearance in the PFA Junior Cup. The following season another top 6 finish also culminated in a Cup Final appearance in the Hunts Junior Cup against local rivals Stilton. After going 1 - 0 down to an early goal, an inspiring performance from Matt Prince pulled our team through, equalising their goal himself, then after Stilton had scored again, setting up Nick Heyes with the equaliser, and then with 5 minutes to go netting the winner. The team after that suddenly dropped out of the league causing the club a lot of expense and fines we were still trying to recover from upto two years ago.
After a couple of poor seasons and teams getting to the age where girls and beer are more important, in the season 2008/09) we only had three teams competing with Andy Cooper doing a fantastic job with the under 15's and two new managers, Andy Sharpe now manager of the Sunday first team, and Simon Alexander taking charge of the Reserves, with Danny Salmon taking the role as Chair after two seasons as first team manager. John Prince is still club secretary and we hope that this young blood is what the club needs to revive it again and make it force in local football, one day you never know we might have the next Rooney, DaSilva or Beckham playing for us until then we just keep on going.
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