In the draw for the 2011 FA Vase competition Slimbridge will play their first three games (if successfull) away from home.

04-09-2010 Thame United v Slimbridge
18-09-2010 Bitton v (Thame United or Slimbridge)
02-10-2010 (Kidlington or Malmesbury Victoria or Old Woodstock Town or Shrewton United) v (Bitton or Thame United or Slimbridge)

Our entry into the FA Cup for 2011 was not accepted.

Slimbridge have been drawn to play away at Trowbridge Town in the first round of the Hellenic Challenge Cup sponsored by Bluefin.
The winners of this tie will play at home to Wokingham & Emmbrook in the second round.

In the Floodlit Cup first round Slimbridge travel to Cheltenham Saracens, with the winners of the tie facing Oxford City Nomads at home in the second round

Pre-season training starts at Wisloe Road this Thursday, July 8th. All are welcome.

The Club have announced that their AGM will take place at Wisloe Road next Monday, 14th June, 7.30pm. All are welcome.

James Cole went out on a high as Slimbridge Manager after they clinched the double.

They beat local rivals Berkeley Town on penalties in the Stroud Charity Cup (Harry Greening) Final, and Cole called it the best season of his three in charge, with the Hellenic Division One West Title already in the bag.

He said 'Winning the title to go into the Southern League before was very good, but management-wise, winning the league was very good as well. Doing the double makes it special, especially in my last season'.

County League side Berkeley made it difficult for the Swans, holding them to a 0-0 draw in the 90 minutes before the game went straight to a shootout, and goalkeeper Dave Evans made two good saves as Slimbridge won 3-2.

Cole added 'They deserve it because of the season they had. We did OK on the night. Berkeley were a very good, stubborn side and deserved the draw, but penalty shootouts come down to nerve and steel and we showed it.'

It was almost a fairytale ending for Cole as he latched onto a ball over the top of the Berkeley defence after coming on as a substitute, but he dragged his shot wide from 18 yards with just the goalkeeper to beat.

Berkeley also created the chances to win the game, though, as Richard Langford and Ben Gillison both saw efforts cleared off the line.

Ross Langworthy, Fred Ward and Joe Tustain scored their penalties for Slimbridge, but Paul Carter missed.

Langford and Andy Hobbs were the only successful takers for Berkeley as Tom Palmer hit the post, and Mike Bryant and Mike Reece saw their efforts saved by Evans.

Berkeley Manager Terry Stevenson said 'We were superb, it's a shame we couldn't play to that sort of standard throughout the season. It's the third or fourth time we've had a full side out and I was very proud of them, they worked really hard. It would have been nice to beat them because they are the top side around.

Cole will now take charge of South West Peninsula League side Tavistock, who are due to host Slimbridge in a friendly on July 24th, 12 days after facing Neil Warnock's QPR.

What an incredible season for football in Slimbridge.

When I took over as Chairman from John Mack last summer I had no idea what I was in for. The First Team won their last game of the season to finish Champions of Hellenic League Division One and the Reserve Team were runaway winners of Division 2 of the Stroud League.

The First Team were also runners up in the Hellenic League Challenge Cup having beaten four sides from the Hellenic Premier League including Champions Almondsbury Town who will next season be playing in the Southern League.

It was suggested at the beginning of the season that we should start to foster much stronger links with the Junior Club and it has been an absolute pleasure to be part of this process. To this end, we made the facilities at Wisloe Road available for home fixtures for the under-16's and I recruited Barry Gay and Pete Clark to help out. Both Barry and Pete have a wealth of experience in local football circles and the three of us have had extensive discussions about the future of the integration of the older age groups into the Club (usually in the Tudor Arms on a Sunday night after the games, tough work but somebody has to do it!!).

Having lost a number of players to Gloucester City and other activities we were quickly faced with the prospect of starting the season with a severely depleted squad and I would like to thank Nick Franks and Chris Hambling for their hard work in rounding up enough to get us started. I'm not sure that involving the lads with the initial First Team training session was the greatest idea either as after a punishing session with Freddie Ward there were some we didn't see again, not in football kit anyway!

In retrospect, we couldn't have had a tougher start than away fixtures against Hucclecote, FC Newent and Wotton Rovers and a draw,loss and win seemed to indicate that we were in for a tough time. We then went on a fantastic run of wins and despite the hiccup of losing to Abbeymead in the County Cup (with a severely weakened team) we ended 2009 sitting proudly on top of the League.

(Squad: Ben Hambling, Joel Murdoch, Ollie Billings, Ryan Collard, Ryan Minns, Kieran Wait, Ben Deakin, Jon Rams, George Osborne-Shill, Jasper Stokes-Johnson, Callum Dummelow, Billy Herbert, Ollie Franks, Jack Higgs, Tom

The weather seriously hampered our preparations for the second half of the season and the constant cancellation of games and training definitely had an impact on some of our later performances. Despite this, we went into the last two months of the season with a chance of at least one trophy. Defeat at Hucclecote in the semi final of the League Cup was tough as injuries to key players began to take their toll.

As the season drew to a close, two tough games against Lydney were predicted. We were unlucky to return from the Forest with just the one point when the home side equalised in Fergie time. A superb 2-1 victory in the return game at Wisloe last Sunday left last night's fixture v FC Newent.

The League Title already having been won by Hucclecote, the victors would finish runners-up. Slimbridge went ahead in the first couple of minutes with a goal from Ben Deakin but the visitors equalised shortly before half time when a long free kick evaded stand-in goalkeeper Ben Hambling. The second half was end to end with guest of honour League secretary Gill Howell describing the game as worthy of a Cup Final. Newent scored an excellent goal to win the game midway through the second half and held out gallantly to secure second place.

Third place for this team was a VERY creditable result and I would like to thank everyone that played any part in this season's efforts both on and off the field. I would also like to think that all of Slimbridge's young players would now aspire to emulate the successes of their senior counterparts. We want to see them in THEIR Club, cheering on THEIR teams, wearing THEIR colours. Its 50 years since the field at Wisloe was donated by Evi Thornhill to play football on. Let's all go forward together to make this the best place in the area to ENJOY our football.

Please note that the Stroud Charity Cup Final between Slimbridge and Berkeley Town will be played at Wisloe Road on Friday 14th May, with a 7.30 Kick Off, not Saturday 15th at 3pm as previously stated.

Ardley United captured the Bluefin Insurance Challenge Cup this afternoon against a Slimbridge side for whom it was very much a case of 'after the Lord Mayor's show.

A 20th minute penalty and a second goal on 32 minutes did for the Swans, who turned in a sluggish performance after the exertions of Saturday.

Team: Evans, Anson, Wellon, Sterling, Inch, Carter, Hine, Wood, Roberts, Wilton, T. Cole. Subs: Brown, J. Cole, ward, Langworthy, Workman.