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The Almelo City Cup 2025

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PIGASUS>> The other countries promise much With walking football going Dutch But Calne will surely end up high Come Thursday noon them pigs will fly! Come on Calne!! (With Melksham not far behind I suppose). Predictive verse: Phil C Rico K (coordinator), Andy S, Terry Mc, Graham N, Nigel L. Jon H, Mark K (captain), Paul W. Spoiler Alert Calne Town WFC finished as runners up in the Hendrie Kr ü zen Cup (Who?) a t this years Almelo City Cup competition at Herecles Almelo, Asito Stadion . It meant that we returned with silverware for the third successive year and improving on the previous two consecutive third place finishes.    A squad comprising Mark Kirkman, Jon Hayton, Graham Newland, Andy Stone, Nigel Loveless, Terry McCosh and international debutant Paul Wigelsworth performed very well against opposition from England, Germany , Belgium, Poland and Denmark as well as the host country, the Netherlands.   Before we kick-off it's worth ...

The Almelo City Cup 2024

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Graham N, Perry K, Andy S, Phil C, Terry Mc. Abbi H, Mark K, Nigel L. History repeated itself when, for the 2 nd season running, CTWFC finished 3 rd   (out of 24 teams) in the Herman Finkers trophy at the Almelo City Cup.   The squad, seen above, performed well against opposition from Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and England, again ensuring the club returned with silverware. On Day 1 we finished top of our group with 7 points from 3 games beating a team from Belgium called Walking Bears 3 v 2 with goals from Mark, Perry and an own goal, FC Utrecht 2 v 0 with Nigel and Mark scoring, and drawing against VFL Wolfsburg 0 v 0. On Day 2 we finished second in our group with 4 points from 3 games, beating VFL Wolfsburg 2 v 0, drawing against Raspo Osnabrück 1 v 1, with Abbi scoring our goal, then losing to the eventual winners of the competition from Belgium, Esservee Old Stars  0 v 2.  We then lost in the semi-final 0 v 3 to Iserlo...

The Almelo City Cup 2023

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The Calne Town Walking Football Club squad participated, once again, in the annual Almelo City Cup Tournament in the Netherlands, and have done the club proud... taking third place out of the 24 participating clubs. A big CONGRATULATIONS to our friends and neighbours, Melksham Walking Football Club, for lifting the winners trophy in their first year. The boys from Wiltshire did well! BEDANKT! Thanks to the organisers , refs and all participants... see you next year! Day 1, first round results: Heracles (NL)   2 v 1  CTWFC  CTWFC  3 v 1  Putten (NL) CTWFC  4 v 1  Werner Bremen (D) Day 2, second round results: CTWFC  3 v 0  Utrecht (NL) Melksham  0 v 0  CTWFC CTWFC  0 v 0  Osnabr ü ck (D) Semi final:  Cleethorpes 3 v 0 CTWFC 3rd place play off: CTWFC 2 v 2 Łódź  (PL)   Calne win on Fair Play points The final positions for the 2023 Herman Finkers League: 1. Melksham 2. Cleethorpes 3. Calne Town 4. Rosomak Lodz...