TEAM GRYPHON FC OFFICIAL HISTORY - Season 2007/08

TGFC sign a one year sponsorship agreement with The Mermaid, Sherborne to supply the home and away teams with food after matches, and as a base for club events such as the Christmas party and end of season presentation. Off the field of play and as a Charter Standard Club, we were invited to send players under 18 to a McDonalds sponsored Level One Certificate in Coaching Football, the club sent Darren Rowe and Stuart Wells to Hamworthy.

January saw TGFC set into motion plans to introduce a second team, inviting Compton Rovers U16’s of the Yeovil & District Youth League to join forces with TGFC, and play as our U18’s team in the Dorset County Youth League, and to aid the club financially TGFC signed a two year sponsorship deal with Sevenoaks ‘Sound & Vision’ of Yeovil to become the shirt sponsors of the U18’s team.

TGFC were invited by the DCFA to interview for a place in the Dorset County Youth U18’s League season 2008/09. TGFC were accepted and entered into Division Two.

The 2007/08 BVFL season ended in the Men’s team finishing in 9th place, with five league wins from 18 games. In the league cup we went out in the opening round, but the Challenge Cup and Dorset Cup saw us progress a couple of rounds. The season was a success, with the team gaining more points than last season, winning more games and going further in all the cups entered reaching, especially as we reached the quarterfinal of the Challenge Cup. Finishing 9th meant that TGFC should have been relegated but were saved from relegation by two teams dropping out of Division One.

Compton Rovers from the Yeovil & District Youth League, the soon to be re-branded TGFC U18's finished 3rd in their last season as youth players behind Birchfield & Henstridge Utd, but reached the final of the Yeovil & District League Cup losing 1-0 to Birchfield, the quarterfinal of the Yeovil Shield and the semi-final of the Dorset Cup, congratulations to all the players and the management, and welcome to TGFC, your new club!

The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity Cup was extended and moved to Bishops Caundle Sports & Social Club; the four-team tournament was now between Team Gryphon, Bishops Caundle Colts, Ivel FM and the Orchard FM All-stars. TGFC lost to Bishops Caundle in the final of the event after beating Orchard FM All-stars in the semi-final.