Living Hope Church
Steve Farley (Manager), Luke Evans, Andy Parkes (Cpt), Chris Webb, Carl Birch (GK), Robert Lee, Daniel Fox, Mike Davies, Seb Haywood (GK), Shane Carrier, Jason Marshall, Mark Davies
Front Row: Jemal Patterson, Matt Hemming, Callum Oakshott, Lee Smith, Nathan Brain, Josh Steventon, Robbie Cox, Daniel Groves, Jimmy Warren
Ground: Coseley Leisure Centre - Entrance: Henne Drive, Ivyhouse Lane off Birmingham New Road (A4123)
Directions: Click Here - Or Here - Post Code of Ground: WV14 9JW

Secretary: Linda Raybould Kick-Off: 10.30am
First Team Colours: Red Shirts, Black Shorts, Red Socks
Second Team Colours: Maroon & Orange Halved Shirts, Maroon Shorts, Orange Socks
Honours: -
Year Formed: 2009
League Player of the Year
League Top Scorer
2011
Nathan Brain and Bob Lee
2011
Nathan Brain 23
2010
Nathan Brain
2010
Nathan Brain 19

Potted History: The idea of Living Hope Church FC was dreamt up by Steve Farley and Neil Oakshott across two of their regular pre-Christmas trips to France in 2007 and 2008. Discussed over a couple of pizzas in 2007, the idea was left on the back burner until the following December when, again over pizza, it was decided to push on and see if a team could be assembled. In his best salesman’s fashion Steve convinced Pastor Jeremy Parkes of the positives a team would bring to the Church and so player recruitment began.

Our inaugral season in 2009-10 proved difficult and despite (at times) playing some good football Living Hope found themselves firmly entrenched in bottom spot until the end of February, by which time we had claimed just two draws and no wins. However not to be deterred we battled on finishing the season with a six game unbeaten run amassing a grand total of fourteen points from a possible eighteen to finish tenth.

2010-2011 LHC continued their good form from the back end of last season losing just one competitive game in a twelve month spell from March 2010 to Feb 2011 that also saw us into the quarter finals of the league cup. Unfortunately for us our Division Three Championship aspirations faltered in the final weeks of the campaign and we just held on to third place to win promotion to Division Two.
Steve Farley (manager), Jason Marshall, Simon Rodda, Luke Evans, Pete Kirkby, Chris Webb, Dean Russell (captain), James Farley
Pete Hopper (vice captain), Nathan Watkins, Michael Boden, Andy Parkes, Darren Giles, Chris Ridgway
Jamie Boot, Dan Groves, Callum Oakshott, Lee Smith, Nathan Brain, Josh Steventon, Calin Resmuves, Ben Davies

2009
Nathan Birch, Steve Wozniak, Adam Taylor, Pete Hopper, Michael Taylor, Peter Goodwin, Dean Russell, Andy Parkes, Lukas Evans, Chris Webb
Michael Boden, Lee Smith, Nathan Brain, Callum Oakshott, Josh Steventon, Ben Davies, Jason Marshall