About Euxton Villa Football Club
Welcome to Euxton Villa Football Club, which is a Private limited Company by guarantee, Company No: 14515651 which has charitable status, Charity No: 1202828. The club assets and junior teams sit within this company. The directors are Graham Keyte (Euxton Villa) and Mark Hilton (FA Club Programme). The trading element of the club sits within Euxton Villa Trading, a Private limited Company by shares, Company No. 14552923. The shares are exclusively held by Euxton Villa FC (14515651). The adult football teams sit within the trading company and its directors are Mark Mcdonnell and Graham Keyte.
We play football at Jim Fowler Memorial Ground, Runshaw Hall Lane, Euxton, PR7 6HQ. The club was originally known as Euxton, playing in the West Lancashire League in 1907. The team led a nomadic existence playing in various locations in the village before finally buying three fields from a local farmer, Jim Fowler, in 1985. Since then, the club merged with junior teams from the village and developed the current site. In 2002 we became an FA Community Club and proud to be one of the first 100 clubs in the country to attain this status. Our new club-house was officially opened in 2009 by Chorley MP, Lindsay Hoyle. This building came about as a result of years of fund raising and a grant from the Football Foundation.
In 2012 we were voted Chorley’s Community Club of the Year. In 2013 we were Lancashire’s FA Charter Standard Development Club of the Year and voted winners of the North West Region FA Charter Standard Development Club of the Year. A fantastic achievement of which we are very proud to receive these awards and are testament to the hard work and professional commitment of all volunteers at the club. It was also in 2013 that we entered, for the first time in the clubs history, two girls teams into the West Lancashire Girls Football League.
In 2019 Euxton Villa FC were awarded tier 2 status and were delighted to be selected for the FA Community Pilot Scheme and become one of 150 clubs nationwide with this status.
In 2022 the FA changed their grading system of clubs and determined Euxton Villa qualified for the top status, 3 star accreditation.
We currently have over 50 teams in addition to the Boys and Girls development groups. We also have strong links with Chorley Women. This means we are in the unique position of being able to offer a boy and girl pathway, from the age of 4 through to adult football, where both Ladies and Men’s teams play in the FA pyramid. All coaches are FA qualified and cleared to coach children. Our teams play in the National League, West Lancashire Football League, FA Women’s League (Chorley Women), Poulton & District Primary League, Bolton, Bury & District League, Central Lancashire Junior Football League, Mid Lancashire Colts Junior Football League, and FA Veterans Summer League.
Girls Football in Chorley
Girls football at Euxton Villa is a fast expanding section. We currently have 9 teams from U9-U16.
We are also a FA licensed Wildcats Centre which began in April 2019 and as been a huge success delivering FREE football to 5-11yr old girls.
Call Garham Keyte on 07970 708772 or email euxtonvillagirls@outlook.com.
Boys Football in Chorley
This is our biggest section but we always need new players as the younger teams are small sided and there is no limit (providing we can recruit enough volunteers to coach) on the number of teams and we also have a development group starting at reception.
We are proud of all our players and particularly pleasing to see some progress into the professional game.
Chris Beech, Blackpool, Hartlepool United, Huddersfield, Rochdale, Doncaster and Carlisle United.
Mark Wright, Preston and currently a successful coach at Euxton Villa FC.
David Unsworth, England International, played for Everton, West Ham, Portsmouth, Sheffield United, Wigan, Burnley and Huddersfield.
Andy Lonergan, Goalkeeper u21 England International who played for Preston, Leeds, Bolton, Liverpool, Everton, Stoke, Fulham and Wigan.
Sam Johnstone, Goalkeeper played at Manchester United, currently at Wolverhampton Wanderers and is an England International.
Adam Henley, Wales international, Blackburn Rovers and Chorley.
Luke Chambers, Liverpool
Our most recent rising star is Will Wright, who recently signed for Liverpool from Salford City.
If you wish to volunteer, play or help the club in any way please contact us by email: hello@euxtonvillafc.com.
Follow us on twitter: @EuxtonVillaFC or for juniors news: @EuxtonVillaJnrs.
Graham Keyte
CEO – Euxton Villa FC
