Glens travel to Renfrew for their opening league match. Then it’s Whitletts home, Dalry away , Thorniewood home , Ardrossan away and Hurlford away.
Check out opening league fixtures at www.scottishfa.co.uk/sjfa/competitions.cfm?page=1771
Glens kick-off their Ardagh Sectional League Cup campaign with a trip to Muirkirk on Wed 30 July. Next away to Cumnock , home to Lugar, away to Talbot and home to Kello .
Glenafton’s pre-season annual Joe Meldrum Trophy will take place on Saturday 23rd July at Loch Park with South of Scotland side St. Cuthbert Wanderers and Ayrshire District side Troon joining the hosts.
Game 1 Glenafton Athletic vs. Troon KO 1:00pm
Game 2 St. Cuthbert’s Wanderers vs. Troon KO 2:30pm
Game 3 Glenafton Athletic vs. St. Cuthbert’s Wanderers KO 4:00pm
Presentation 5:30pm
photo courtesy of John Vass
Glenafton Athletic are delighted to announce the appointment of Darren Henderson as the new manager of the club. Kilmarnock-born Darren played at senior level for over 21 seasons with spells at Clyde, Stranraer (1), Clydebank, Queen of the South, Stranraer (2) , Ayr United (1), Hamilton Accies, Ross County, Raith Rovers, Forfar Athletic and Ayr United (2). All told he made over 530 appearances at senior level, just over 200 of these with Stranraer, and scored 85 goals. Darren moved to Cumnock Juniors from the Honest Men in 2005 where he teamed up with former Ayr boss Campbell Money. He briefly returned to the seniors with Stenhousemuir in January 2007, once again in the company of Campbell Money. The pair soon returned to Townhead, with Darren as Money’s assistant-manager and still pulling on the boots, typically now in the left-back position, and at 41years old appeared in the Scottish Junior Cup Final of 2008.
Darren joined Dalry Thistle in a player-coach role and in November 2010 he took over the hot-seat at Merksworth Park following the departure of John Garroch. He led the Ayrshire District League side to the semi-final of the Scottish Junior Cup and after the disappointment of losing out to Musselburgh Athletic (on aggregate) he kept the side focused and steered them, with Garroch now in a supporting role, through a tough schedule of league games in hand to secure promotion to the Super League 1st Division, and five days later resigned from the post with a view to finding a new challenge, something that we are not short of at Glenafton.
Joining Darren as his assistants are his former Dalry colleagues John Garroch and Sammy Conn along with Stevie Kerrigan.
Signed players – Craig McEwan, Steven Greenlees, Scott Wilson, Stuart Currie, Ryan McChesney, Paul McKenzie and Ally Semple.
Club secretary John Stewart has scheduled talks with a number of the players from last season’s squad.
Midfielder Stephen Docherty has been placed on the trnasfer list at his own request.
Manager Greig Denham has left the club by mutual agreement with John Stewart, Glenafton Secretary . The decision was taken today after an internal disagreement.We can also confirm that his assistant Stevie Kerrigan will be also leaving Loch Park. We would like to thank both of them for all the hard work and effort they put in and wish them all the best for the future. The club will now advertise the post and will interview prospective candidates as soon as possible.
John Stewart (Club Secretary)
Glenafton Athletic have placed the following players on the transfer list – Willie Howie (midfield), Kevin McBride (defender) , Richie McKillen (defender), Jim Wilson (forward), Aaron Scoular (midfield) and Tony Mitchell (goalkeeper).
Club captain Willie Howie (left) joined the club from Partick Thistle at the beginning of season 2005/06, signed by Gerry Collins his former boss at Thistle. In his first season Willie led the club to Ayrshire Sectional League Cup and West of Scotland Cup double. He went on to make 152 starts for the club and scored 9 goals in his six seasons with the club, although he didn’t play at all in season 2009/10 following a serious knee injury on at the end of the previous season. At the beginning of Season 2010/11 Willie, along with John Stewart briefly served as assistant managers to new manager Greg Denham. Willie was soon back to his best, leading the team on the park in a push for promotion, which just fell short in a 1-0 aggregate play-off loss to Petershill.
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