Crawley Down Gatwick Football Club

19/08/2025 - Tue 19th Aug: CDG v Eastbourne Utd 7:30pm K/O

Anvils v Eastbourne Utd

Entry: Adults £8

Concessions £5

U18's Free if accompanied by an Adult.

The free on line Program can be viewed here on the day of the game :  Programme

12/08/2025 - Tue 12th Aug: Anvils Draw 2-2 v Newhaven

Anvils on song for this one with both teams playing some good football throughout.

Anvils scored first through Sammy Clements with an unstopable header before Newhaven drew level just before HT 1-1

2nd half both sides played some impressive football. Anvils took the lead again just after the restart with another excellent header from Sammy Clements 2-1. Newhaven were awarded a penalty just after but Alex Bellingman made an excellent save low down to his right. However Newhaven equalised on 73 mins. Both teams had further chances to win the game in the last 15mins and it could have gone either way but both defences took charge and the game ended in a 2-2 Draw

09/08/2025 - Sat 09/08/25: Shoreham 2 Anvils 0

Anvils are still struggling with form and although the sides were evenly matched shoreham took their chances.

29/07/2025 - Sat 02/08/25: Lancing 1 Anvils 0 FA Cup Ex Prel Rd

You can never predict how well or not, results will go in the FA Cup and this match didn't disappoint in that respect.

Anvils started well but fell behind after just 4 mins when Lancing scored in what was their 1st attack and somehow the ball ended up in the back of the Anvil net after a ping pong session to put Lancing one up. The two sides had very different tactics with the Lancing hit and rush long ball winning the day against the play out from the back at all costs from the Anvils. So loads of Anvils possession with little clear cut action up front losing out to the long ball Lancers having more chances up front with the continuous supply of long balls. The match overall was a fairly even contest with both sides having many opportunities to win the game. 

Good luck to Lancing in the next round.

26/06/2024 - 1st Team Management Announcement

WE ARE DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE THAT MARTIN BENETAR WILL JOIN THE SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM OF DEAN BLACKMORE, JAMES DAY, MATT CRANE AND RICHARD HUGHES (NOT PICTURED).

MANAGER JAMES SAID 'I'M DELIGHTED THAT MARTIN HAS AGREED TO STEP UP FROM LAST SEASONS U18'S AND BECOME PART OF THE SENIOR SET UP AS A FIRST TEAM COACH. NOT ONLY HAS HE BROUGHT A GREAT DEAL OF SUCCESS TO THE CLUB WITH THE U18'S, HE ALSO BRINGS WITH HIM A WEALTH OF FOOTBALL KNOWLEDGE AND A STRONG CONNECTION WITH CRAWLEY DOWN THAT WE ARE KEEN TO MAINTAIN. MARTIN WILL COMPLIMENT THE SKILLSETS WITHIN THE EXISTING MANAGEMENT TEAM AND WE ARE ALL LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING ALONGSIDE HIM.'

25/06/2024 - MEET THE CHAIRMAN

I AM ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED TO HAVE TAKEN ON THIS ROLE, FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF SOME INCREDIBLE CHAIRMEN.

FROM 1986 WHEN I FIRST STEPPED OUT IN THE CLUB'S COLOURS, TO 2008 WHEN I HUNG UP MY PLAYING BOOTS, TO COACHING A YOUTH TEAM, THE HAVEN HAS ALWAYS FELT LIKE A SECOND HOME.

I FEEL AN ENORMOUS SENSE OF PRIDE WHEN I SEE THE 28 TEAMS WE CURRENTLY HAVE PLAYING AND SEE KIDS WHOSE PARENTS I ONCE PLAYED ALONGSIDE.

I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHERE THIS JOURNEY WILL TAKE US AS A CLUB AND LOOK FORWARD TO ENGAGING WITH THE WHOLE COMMUNITY TO MAKE THIS CLUB A PLACE FOR US ALL TO BE PROUD OF.

DAVE

09/06/2024 - SCL Presentation Evening

A night of silverware for Crawley Down Gatwick at the Southern Combination League Annual presentatuon evening.

U18 Sussex County Cup Winners, North Division League Champions.

SCL Top Goal Scorers: Golden Boot awards 1st XI Oli Leslie, U18's Ricardo De Ponte Silva

SCL Long Service award: Donal Barrett

29/04/2024 - Some recent success stories for CDG

U18's Win the Sussex County FA Youth Cup
Mid Sussex League U13s team (David Street) won their league on Sunday.
U13s Girls (Chris Imhoff) won their league on Sunday.
U9s Hammers (Luke Taylor) won their Crawley League league cup competition on Sunday.
U12s Girls (Dermot Sargent) won their league on Sunday. They needed to win their final game to be crowned champions but the match was postponed. However, their title rivals drew their final game and cannot catch Crawley Down.
Mid Sussex League U8s (Peter Scanlan) won their Spring League a couple of weeks ago.

The future is bright; the future is Crawley Down Gatwick!