Category: General

Lockddown is over and our legendary events are kicking off again!

Our new social committee has a 2021/22 line up coming in hot 🔥 We’re starting big with Club Day and the Start of Season Black Tie Dinner in September. Here’s all the details…

Club Day 🏑🍻

Club Day is our annual celebration of the season starting and a chance to see your mates and meet some new ones! This is a must attend for any newbies who want to get to know the club and become part of the Wanderers family.

Club Day is an afternoon of social mixed hockey competition starting at 1pm at Battersea Park and followed by a few (or more than a few) bevvies at South West Eleven, the new club house!

We’ll continue the competitions with boat races and beer pong! ⛵🍺🏓

Date: Saturday 4th September
Time: 1pm – 4.30pm (then on to SW11)
Location: Battersea Park All Weather Pitch
Club house: South West Eleven

To get involved email [email protected] with your name and team you play for!

We’ll put you into a team on the day.

Start of Season Dinner 🥂

Since lockdown put the brakes on our usual End of Season Prizegiving, we decided to have the best start of season ever and make it a black tie dinner!

The SoS Dinner is on Saturday 25th of September at the Clayton Hotel in Chiswick.

This is a snazzy black tie event with dinner, drinks and dancing so some dressed to the nines and ready to boogie 🥂💃🏽

The ticket cost is £50, the club will contribute the rest of the ticket price.

If you played last season, your fees refund is the same price as the ticket. You can use this refund to pay for your ticket – this will be arranged with your team treasurer and they’ll be in touch with you. If you didn’t pay last season, you can pay for your ticket with your team treasurer.

Your captain or social sec will make sure you’ve got all the details you need.

See you there!

Hockey is back 👏🏽🥳 and we’re in a fresh new London League!

The 2021/22 season is our first in the new London League! We’re in the London Area which means we play more South and North London teams and less in the far West.

You can check out the national area map here then clicking “Fixtures by Area Name” or the London Area league by clicking here then clicking “Fixtures by Grade/Division”.

Trials

Trials were held on Saturday 7 August – read more here – Scroll down to the 2021/22 Trials post.

Training

Pre-season training started w/c 2 August and is held weekly at Battersea Park and Kennington Park.

To find out more about training times and locations click here

Season Dates – 2021/22

In the new league, the men and women follow the same calendar of games including breaks.

• Sat 25 September: Games commence
• Sat 23 October: Break – No games
• Sat 11 December: Final game before break
  

— Holiday Break —

• Sat 22 January: First game of 2022
• Sat 19 February: Break – No games
• Sat 9 April: Final game of the season

If you have any questions about the league or your game dates and times, just ask your captain.

The Wanderers 2021/22 season kicked off with torrential rain and some very dedicated players and captains!

Both the men’s and women’s teams held their trials on a very wet Saturday in Battersea Park.

Despite the weather, trials were a success with trialling players being invited to pre-season trainings with teams throughout August.

Final team selections will be made by September.

Missed trials?

If you missed trials, you still have the opportunity to join the club in our mixed teams, who play fun, competitive hockey on a Sunday.

Click here to fill in a quick form expressing your interest to play!

We’re recruiting male and female GKs across the club for the coming 20/21 season. We offer:

✔️ Dedicated GK training 💜💛
✔️ Local training at either Battersea Park, Kennington Park or Balham 🗺
✔️ Club kits available 🧤
✔️ Discounted fees
✔️ awesome socials 🍻
✔️ summer hockey (in normal times) ☀️
✔️ 4 (3 social, 1 competitive) mixed teams playing on Sundays

Come join us! Shoot any questions to [email protected] and register your interest here.

We look forward to seeing as many of our members as possible for the AGM on ‪Tuesday 4th August at 7pm‬.

We have a few vacant positions which represent a great opportunity to be involved in how our club is run. Please let any of the exec committee know if you would be keen to apply for any of the below positions:

• Social Secretary
• Fixtures Secretary
• Umpire Secretary

Zoom link for the AGM is in your email.

💜💛💜💛

🍾 Congratulations to our Ladies 6s (league champions) and Ladies 4s (runners up) who are promoted 🍾! No mean feat off the back of a strong 18/19 season which saw 4 promotions for the ladies side.

We offer:
✔️ 7 competitive, yet very fun, ladies teams
✔️ playing in South and the higher Surrey leagues
✔️ convenient training at either Battersea Park or Kennington Park
✔️ awesome socials
✔️ summer hockey (in normal times)
✔️ 4 (3 very social, 1 competitive) mixed teams playing on Sundays

We’re recruiting across the board for the 20/21 season, including GKs – come join us! Register your interest here.
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L1: South Div2
L2: Surrey Div1
L3: Surrey Div1
L4: Surrey Div2
L5: Surrey Div4
L6: Surrey Div4
L7: Surrey Div7