Club History

Bramford United Old Boys play in the Ipswich Sunday Morning Football League which this season is sponsored by Flare Recruitment.

The Bramford United Football Club is a senior football club in a village just outside Ipswich and the first team play in the Metalec Saturday afternoon league. They have their own ground with changing facilities and a club house and retain junior sides who continue to play in the aforementioned youth league.

Unfortunately, the Bramford United club could not offer us the continued use of their facilities, in view of the number of teams and playing under their name, and so we were forced to find an alternative ground and, with the help of the Flare League secretary, now play our home games at Bourne Park, an Ipswich Borough Council park pitch. The break with Bramford United meant that we had to change our name, hence the reference to Old Boys!

We have a core of players who have been with the club from its youth days at Bramford and wish to continue playing together and this has led to a healthy team spirit and friendliness within the team. It has been, financially, a difficult first season in adult football, especially as we have not been blessed with any sponsorship, but we have enjoyed a fair amount of success and played some pleasing football that has seen us into the top half our division and with a chance of promotion as we arrive at our last four games.

The manager of the team, John Cordell, has been with the club for three seasons and the assistant, David Mullett, was with the side at its inception. Prior to moving to Bramford, John was the manager of another village youth side, Witnesham Wasps, where his son Kevin, who now plays for Bramford United Old Boys, played. The side had to disband in view of the lack of lack of a division of the Waveney Youth Saturday League for players older than fifteen, a situation which has since changed!

Bramford United Old Boys would be most grateful to receive sponsorship for next season and, whilst appreciating their limitations, would naturally do all it could to promote their sponsor's name in the local press, including the Ipswich Saturday Football Paper which regularly carries our match reports.