News from Deva Stadium May 2024

30 May 2024
MIDFIELDER SIGNS
Chester have announced the signing of 26-year-old midfielder Jack Bainbridge from newly promoted Marine. He has signed a one year deal. Bainbridge has previously made over 100 appearances for Southport.

24 May 2024
STANWAY JOINS BARROW
Goalkeeper Wyll Stanway has joined League Two side Barrow, his hometown club, for an undisclosed fee. The 23-year-old was an ever present in the Blues side last season notching up an impressive 22 clean sheets during the season. He was also rewarded with an England C cap last season as well.

19 May 2024
END OF SEASON AWARDS NIGHT
The club held their ends of season Annual Awards last night at Chester Racecourse, hosted by Steve Bower. The full list of winners on the night was as follows:

Women’s Development Player of the Season — Katie Kelso
Youth Academy Player of the Season — Billy Davies
CFC Community Award — CFC Womens Team
Women’s Players’ Player of the Season — Kim Sands
Gary Talbot Golden Boot Award — George Glendon
Away Travel Player of the Season — Wyll Stanway
Goal of the Season — Reece Daly
Women’s Manager’s Player of the Season — Sarah Redman
Men’s Players’ Player of the Season — Harrison Burke
Women’s Players’ Player of the Season — Molly Wood
CFU s Players’ Player of the Season — Harrison Burke

Congratulations to all the winners...

17 May 2024
TEAMS CONFIRMED
The National League have confirmed the teams taking part in the National League North next season as:

Alfreton Town (5th in National League North)
Brackley Town (3rd in National League North)
Buxton (14th in National League North)
Chester (10th in National League North)
Chorley (4th in National League North)
Curzon Ashton (7th in National League North)
Darlington (16th in National League North)
Farsley Celtic (20th in National League North)
Hereford (11th in National League North)
Kidderminster Harriers (22nd in National League)
King's Lynn Town (18th in National League North)
Leamington (3rd in Southern League Premier Division Central)
Marine (3rd in Northern Premier League Premier Division)
Needham Market (1st in Southern League Premier Division Central)
Oxford City (24th in National League)
Peterborough Sports (15th in National League North)
Radcliffe (1st in Northern Premier League Premier Division)
Rushall Olympic (19th in National League North)
Scarborough Athletic (13th in National League North)
Scunthorpe United (2nd in National League North)
Southport (17th in National League North)
South Shields (8th in National League North)
Spennymoor Town (9th in National League North)
Warrington Town (12th in National League North)

16 May 2024
SKIPPER SIGNS NEW DEAL
George Glendon has put pen to paper and signed a new one year deal at Chester. The Blues captain has made 129+10 appearances for Chester, scoring 23 goals in the process. He was top scorer for Chester last season with 13 goals and also provided seven assists.

12 May 2024
FIRST NEW SIGNING
Chester have announced the signing of former Spennymoor Town defender Ben Pollock on a one year deal. Pollock made 39 appearances for Moors last season and was Player of the season at Boston United the previous season.

NEW DEAL FOR ROBERTS
Kevin Roberts has signed a new one year contract extension at Chester, it will be his sixth season at the club and will see him continue also with his combined playing/physiotherapy role.

10 May 2024
ISLE OF MAN FESTIVAL
Chester will be taking part in the Isle of Man Summer Festival of Football in July, playing the Isle of Man on 19 July (kick-off 19.00hrs), and Lancaster City on 21 July (kick-off 11.0hrs) in pre-season friendlies. Newly promoted National League North side Radcliffe will also be taking part in the event. Matches will be played at The Bowl, Douglas, Isle of Man.

• Pre-season friendlies

3 May 2024
BARRIE HIPKISS
It is extremely sad news to report that Club President Barrie Hipkiss has died at the age of 85 following a long battle with illness. Barrie was ‘Mr Chester’, having started watching his beloved Blues in 1946 and took on many voluntary roles at the club over the past 50 years.

In July 2022 the club renamed the south stand The Hipkiss Stand to honour the lifetime dedication to the club of both Barrie and his wife Pam. Barrie had performed the roles of Supporters Club chairman, Away Travel organiser and more recently Matchday Co-ordinator at Deva Stadium. Many Chester fans will have traveled on the “Hipkiss Express” Barrie’s organised coach travel to away games that he had run for over 35 years! During that time, Pam had been providing hospitality to visiting directors and guests as well as the match officials at both Sealand Road and Deva Stadium. Barrie was made an Honorary Life President when the club reformed in 2010.

A book of condolence will be made available for supporters to sign and leave their own comments in the main office at the ground from Tuesday 7 May.

Picture © Rick Matthews

Barrie and Pam are pictured with Vice Chair and Community Trust CEO Jim Green at the renaming of the south stand.

1 May 2024
ON THE BORDERLINE
For those of you who like to update your copies of Chas Sumner’s popular book, Chas has produced three update stats sheets for last season which can be downloaded from here.

PLAYERS RELEASED
With the season now over the club have announced their retained list for next year. The players released are as follows.

Jake Burton, 0+2 appearances, 0 goals.
Kieran Coates, 54+12 appearances, 0 goals.
Liam Edwards, 51+4 appearances, 1 goal.
Kole Hall, 34+14 appearances, 8 goals.
Joe Smith, 0+0 appearances, 0 goals.
Joel Taylor, 70+12 appearances, 0 goals.
Adam Thomas, 28+30 appearances, 10 goals.

The following players are already contracted for next season.
Harrison Burke
Charlie Caton
Tom Peers
Declan Weeks

The following players have been offered new contracts.
George Glendon
Kevin Roberts
Wyll Stanway
Matty Williams

The following players have had options triggered.
Reece Daly
Ollie Heywood
Iwan Murray
Nathan Woodthorpe.

Forward Christian Norton has been invited back for the pre-season while midfielder Elliott Whitehouse is having ongoing discussions regarding next season.

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