It must be said that English football can, at times, be full of surprises. When a season kicks off, pundits think they know which teams will be celebrating and which will be experiencing woe. However, the reality is that football is a little like online slots : unpredictable and exciting.
One such surprise can be found by looking at Exeter City FC. This team has emerged as a formidable contender in League One, currently holding the top spot. The club's journey to this position is marked by fan ownership , strategic investment, and a cohesive unity that sets them apart in the...
East Devon’s MP Simon Jupp visited Exeter City Football Club’s Cliff Hill Training Ground to tour their new multi-million-pound building.
Visiting the club’s training ground on Sidmouth Road, Simon Jupp MP had the opportunity to look at the new two-storey building, which includes a fitness suite, briefing rooms, physiotherapy facilities, and office space. Construction cost in excess of £3 million and a fundraising campaign to ‘Kit Out The Cliff’ raised £63,000 to equip the new building.
With the project completed during the 20thanniversary year of the club’s purchase by...
Exeter Community Initiatives (ECI), which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, has raised over £2,000 selling Exeter City Football Club (ECFC) replica kits from last season.
The money was raised during a special event at ECI’s Jelly children’s charity shop on Fore Street, which also saw Exeter City football players Vince Harper, Vin Sinisalo, Ilmari Niskanen, Manager, Gary Caldwell and joint Managers of ECFC Women, Abbie Britton and Aaron Wakley, meet and greet customers.
Ellie Taylor, ECI’s Business Operations Manager, said: “We are over the moon to have...
Members of a junior football club in Exeter will have the chance to get a taste of life as a professional footballer after a special competition was launched.
The initiative will offer one lucky team the chance to be trained by Exeter City’s coaches at the club’s new £3 million Cliff Hill Training Ground, as well as receiving 15 tickets for City’s final League One home game of the season against Morecambe on Sunday, May 7.
The Grecians and club partner Selco Builders Warehouse have joined forces to offer the exciting prize which will see City’s elite coaches deliver...
Over forty individuals slept out at St James Park, home of Exeter City Football Club to raise money and awareness for a local charity on Friday 17th March.
Families and friends ditched their beds and spent a night under the stars to raise funds for Julian House. The charity supports over 1,600 people in over 40 projects across the South-West who are facing homelessness, escaping domestic abuse, refugees and more.
Temperatures dropped and there were intermittent rain showers as people bedded down for the night with just sleeping bags, roll mats and cardboard to keep warm...
An innovative programme which uses the power of football to help prevent reoffending by prisoners has been delivered in HMP Exeter.
Staff from Exeter City Community Trust, the partner charity of Exeter City Football Club, have been delivering training and ‘through the gate’ support to prisoners as part of the Twinning Project, the official umbrella for all collaborative projects between football and HM Prison & Probation Service.
And to mark the end of the six-week course for the latest cohort, Exeter City first team player Sonny Cox visited the prison this week where...
Hundreds of runners took to the paths alongside the River Exe for the Half Marathon weekend – including a Royal Marine with a fridge strapped to his back and the manager of Exeter City Football Club.
The two-day event, which is organised by Exeter City Community Trust - the football club’s partner charity - saw the fastest competitors taking on the distance on Saturday, with the remaining participants running on Sunday.
Royal Marine Sam Hammond was amongst the finishers on Sunday, completing the event in just under two hours and 22 minutes – an incredible feat - with a 30kg...
Exeter City Football Club (ECFC) and Exeter City Council’s innovative recycling scheme, Cans4City, has reached a major milestone.
The scheme, which encourages Exeter football fans to recycle used drink cans whilst also raising money for charity, has now raised more than £10,000 with all funds raised going towards projects and initiatives run both by the football club and its partner charity Exeter City Community Trust (ECCT).
Over the years, the Cans4City team has collected more than 12.5 tonnes of aluminium packaging – equivalent to 700,000 cans – which has helped fund...
Leading builders merchant Selco Builders Warehouse has joined forces with Exeter City for the club’s much-anticipated League One campaign.
Selco has been unveiled as an official club partner and Main Stand sponsor for the 2022/23 season, which will see the Grecians play in the third tier of English football for the first time since 2011/12.
Selco strengthened its presence in the south-west earlier this year by opening its 73rd branch on Filmer Way in Marsh Barton.
Carine Jessamine, marketing director at Selco, said: “We’re delighted to be an official club partner...
Thousands of people have lined the centre of Exeter to congratulate the city’s football club on their promotion winning season.
The team finished as League Two runners-up to ensure promotion to League One – the third tier of English football – for the first time since 2012.
On Monday evening [9 May], an open top bus parade was greeted with a sea of red and white as the players and staff slowly made their way from their ground, St James Park, to the historic Guildhall on the High Street.
