Buckhurst Hill FC launched its Senior team in 2004 and in that time they have risen up the ranks of the Essex Olympian League, going on to win the Premier Division Championship twice before gaining Senior status and moving into the Thurlow Nunn League Division One South. Following promotion at the first time of asking last season, the senior team will now be playing in the Essex Senior League. This will be the highest level the Senior side have played at and with it comes our first ever entrance into the FA Cup. This season the club will also play once again in the FA Vase, as well as the Essex Senior Cup.
1st team manager
Manager Mark Williams has risen through the ranks; having started off as a manager for an U8 side, Mark then went on to manage a number of sides right up to the U18s becoming one of the most successful youth managers at the club in the process as he won a lot of titles and cups. He was then asked to become the first team manager and has been instrumental in the restructuring of our senior structure, utilising a club ethos of producing home grown talent, recruiting and developing from within the club. Our ambitions of moving the club up the football pyramid using home grown talent are shared by Mark, who keeps an eye on the rising talent coming through the youth ranks.
Coach
After starting my football career on the pitches next door to Buckhurst Hill as a 17 year old for Eton manor in the ESL and working my way up through the football pyramid for 20 years I eventually went down the coaching and management path. When my daughter started training at Buckhurst Hill about 7 years ago I started to coach her team and still do to this day and being so close to the club and manager of the first team when an opportunity came up with the first team I jumped at the chance as I knew how well the club was run and was going in the right direction, I’ve been involved now for three seasons.
