closeicon
Sport

2014/15 season preview: at a glance

articlemain

It's been a busy summer for most clubs ahead of season 2014/15, now it's time for Danny Caro brings you the low-down on the big movers and shakers.

PREMIER DIVISION

FAITHFOLD A

Competitions entered: All including London Sunday FA

Hopes for the season: To be competitive in all competitions

Players out: Dan Perkins, Roie Spitzer

Manager: Zuriel Solomon

Captain: Alex Taylor

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

FC TEAM A

Competitions entered: Premier Division, Peter Morrison Trophy, Cyril Anekstein Cup and London FA County Cup

Hopes for the season: To maintain a solid league position and to have a good cup run

Players in: Yoav Lebens, Alon Hershkorn

Players out: No

Manager: Ben Gilbey

Captain: Jamie Breslaw - lives, breathes, eats and drinks FC Team

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

HARMEN

Competitions entered: Cyril Anekstein Cup, Peter Morrison and the Premier Division of the MGBSFL

Hopes for the season: We have been working hard in pre-season to gel the new boys and if we can get everyone playing the way we have been in our pre-season games there is no reason why we can’t be towards the top of the table come the end of the season

Players in: George Fierstone, James Gershfield, Bradley Dryer, Bradley Sharp, David Ronson, Joey Lazare, Josh Brooks, Marc Foster, Ollie Craig, Jake Gottlieb, Rob Blackman, Marc Lazare

Players out: James Sandler, Adam Osper, Bradley Fox, Jordan Segal, Mitch Green

Managers: Joseph Marsh, Oliver Leslie, Samuel Castle, Joel Alterman

Captain: Ben Weinberg

SEE FULL PREVIEW

------------------------

HENDON UNITED SPORTS CLUB A

Competitions entered: All the usual ones plus the Sunday FA Challenge Cup

Hopes for the season: We will be there to be shot at but we are confident we can successfully defend our league championship

Players in: Ethan Zone, Michael Kenley, Dovi Fehler

Players out: Yishai Last, Danny Kon, Yehuda Korman, Jacob Gold, Yoav Lebens

Manager: David Garbacz

Captain: Ari Last

Sponsor: CMC Markets

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

NORTH WEST NEASDEN

Competitions entered: All the Jewish competitions and London Cup

Hopes for the season: To be competitive in every game, to finish in the top half of the league and have a good run in the cups

Players in: Sam Franks, Steve Green, Josh Wiener

Players out: Jamie Kent

Manager: Stirling Kay

Captain: Craig Edwards

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

NORTH LONDON RAIDERS A

Competitions entered: MSFL Prem, Anekstein, Peter Morrison Trophy, London Sunday Challenge Cup

Hopes for the season: To continue the fine work of last season

Players in: Ben Joseph, Liron Mannie

Players out: Rob Blackman, Oli Henry

Manager: Rob Richman

Captain: David Rhodes - now in his 10th season with the club

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

OAKWOOD

Competitions entered: Premier Division, Morrison and Anekstein

Hopes for the season: The boys at Oakwood know they have something special – and we’re only going to get stronger. I’ve challenged everyone to be part of something big – something they can look back on with pride

Players in: Lee Warner, Simon ‘Skip’ Davies, and we have have Eddie Manson, Josh Rubin and Adam Levine back from injury

Players out: None

Managers: Ric Blank, Alex Schock

Captain: Adam Levine

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

REDBRIDGE JEWISH CARE A

Competitions entered: Premier Division, Anekstein and Morrison

Hopes for the season: Going for league and cups

Players in: We've taken four boys off of Chigwell - Steve Summers and Craig Sandford rejoin

Players out: Adam Stolerman

Manager: Sam Rosenthal

Captain: TBC

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

WOODFORD WANDERERS

Competitions entered: Peter Morrison, Cyril Anekstein Cup and Premier Division

Hopes for the season: To fulfil all of our fixtures with possibly the smallest squad in the league

Players in: Antony Costa, Aviel Schwarz, Glenn Michaels, James Powell

Players out: James Ryan, Ashley Stanton, Jason Goldstein

Manager: Toby Charles

Captain: Elliot Gold

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

Maccabi London Lions complete the division

-----------------------

DIVISION ONE

ATHLETIC BILBAUM

Hopes for the season: To consolidate our position and become a household name of the League

Players in: TBC

Players out: Jake Gilbert

Managers: Julius Judah and Nick Shinder

Captain: Eli Lew

-----------------------

BLIZZARD STORM

Competitions entered: Morrison, Anekstein and Division One

Hopes for the season: It's going to be a tough league with a lot of sides capable of pushing for promotion. The first couple of months are crucial, we can be up there - the target is promotion and with the squad we have I want to see us in the mix

Players in: 10 - including Ben Ellis, Oli Henry, Brad Cohen, Conor Brand

Players out: Dan Simons, Oli Simons

Manager: Simon Linden

Captain: Eli Lew

Sponsor: Ready Steady Fit - www.readysteadyfit.co.uk

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

BRADY MACCABI

Competitions entered: Division One and both cups

Hopes for the season: To build on last season's impressive league campaign, and make some waves in the cups, maybe sneaking into Europe. Brady have real aspirations of winning some more silverware this year.

Players in: Matt Frohlich, Sam Singer, James Joseph

Players out: David Newman

Manager: Josh Dagul

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

LOS BLANCOS

Hopes for the season: We are hoping to improve on last season's mid-table finish

Players in: Alon Blitz, Jo Davis, Motty Korman, Martin Smulovitch, Danny Steel, Chaim Gothold

Players out: Jono Gaon, Julian Gertner

Manager: Jon Ison

Captain: Darren Russell

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

NORSTAR LONDON RAIDERS B

Hopes for the season: Our new signings should help us step up a level in what I'm sure is going to be an exceptionally competitive division

Players in: David Grossman, Josh Green, Lewis Blitz, Jake Gilbert, Jacob Gold

Players out: Jonny Blain

Manager: Jonathan Adelman

Captain: TBC

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

REDBRIDGE JEWISH CARE B

Hopes for the season: It's all about consolidation so as long as we are still in Div 1 next season, all is good

Players in: Amir Nathan, Toby Nathan

Players out: All the good ones are at uni!

Manager: Jon Jacobs

Captain: Darren Brown

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

SPEC FC

Competitions entered: Division One, Cyril Anekstein Cup, Peter Morrison Trophy

Hopes for the season: To be a lot more competitive in the league and challenging at the right end of the table

Players in: Brothers Brad and Ryan Fox

Players out: Nick Berman and Brad Cohen

Managers: Ricky Lawrence and Michael Rhodes

Captain: Marc Hecht

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

Brixton Old Boys and Camden Park complete the division

-----------------------

DIVISION TWO

AC WHETSTONE

Competitions entered: Division Two, Cyril Anekstein Cup

Hopes for the season: The boys will hopefully be heading off to University next summer having been together as a team since they were six-years-old. It would be great to go out on a high but as we have never placed winning above all else we aren’t going to start now

Players in: N/A

Players out: N/A

Managers: Clive Nathan and Anthony Jacobs

Captain: TBC

-----------------------

AC MILL HILL

Competitions entered: Division Two, Anekstein, Morrison

Hopes for the season: We're aiming for the title

Players in: Jamie Kent, Joel Lassman, Loz Bloom, Jeff Gotch, Darren Bloom

Players out: N/A

Manager: Daniel Beresford

Captain: Rob Kleinman

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

CATFORD & BROMLEY MACCABI

Competitions entered: MSFL, Division Two and the Cyril Anekstein Cup

Hopes for the season: It must be promotion. It hurt everyone to allow a seven point lead slip to finish in fourth place last season. So we’re determined to put that right

Players in: The largest number of signings at one time that LJ can remember - Dan Cohen, Josh Krewne, Andy Charles, Daniel Green, Zak Mcleod

Players out: David Powell (Royal Navy), Gabriel John, Reuben John, Jeff Gotch, Ben Swart, Gidi Matlin

Manager: Lester Jacobs

Captain: Adam Luria

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

FC TEAM B

Competitions entered: League, Anekstein and Morrison

Hopes for the season: To win the title

Players in: Ben Binder, Daniel Breger

Players out: Simon Peterman

Manager: Mitch Young

Captain: Jonathan Breger

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

FC TEAM C

Competitions entered: All

Hopes for the season: If we can build on last year’s fourth place finish then that would be a bonus

Players in: Five

Players out: Paul Savitz

Manager: David Gordon

Captain: Mitch Lassman

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

JEWDINESE

Competitions entered: Division Two, Anekstein and Morrison

Hopes for the season: The title is more than achievable so who knows, you could see the Zebras get back-to-back promotions

Players in: 20 players including Jess Alexander

Players out: Lots have gone to uni

Manager: Jake Erlich

Captain: TBC

-----------------------

L'EQUIPE

Competitions entered: Division Two and the cups

Hopes for the season: Realistically we can challenge for promotion or the title

Players in: James Mandell

Players out: N/A

Managers: David Prager and Josh Lewis

Captain: Mark Singer

-----------------------

LOUGHTON ORIENT

Competitions entered: Division Two and cups

Hopes for the season: To consolidate this year and then kick-on from there. Mid-table would be a good target at this stage, with so many comings and goings over the summer

Players in: Six

Players out: Marc Jacobs

Manager: Adam Conway

Captain: Ryan Kissin

-----------------------

NORSTAR LONDON RAIDERS C

Competitions entered: All - league, Anekstein and Morrison

Hopes for the season: We are going to build on the great football than won us Division 3 last year and we're hoping to at a minimum cement our place in Division 2

Players in: Jonny Blain, Josh Bloom, Adam Leveson, Marc Woolfe

Players out: Jamie Weinrich

Manager: Zack Gothelf

Captain: Jonny Samuel

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

OAKWOOD B

Competitions entered: Division Two, Anekstein, Morrison

Hopes for the season: Unquestionably, we want to achieve promotion

Players in: Six - including Jason Stein, Nicky Harris, Jacob Richler Kleiman and Elliot Jackson

Players out: Ian Tussie

Manager: Marc Conway

Captain: TBC

-----------------------

DIVISION THREE

BOCA JEWNIORS

Competitions entered: Division Two, Anekstein, Morrison

Hopes for the season: To give a strong account of ourselves in all matches

Players in: Gabriel John, Jamie Weinrich, Josh Webber, Charlie Hollis

Players out: TBC

Manager: Gabriel John

Captain: TBC

Sponsor: RecyclingLondon

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

FAITHFOLD B

Competitions entered: All

Hopes for the season: To do really well

Players in: N/A

Players out: N/A

Manager: Rob Shooman

Captain: TBC

-----------------------

HENDON UNITED SPORTS CLUB B

Competitions entered: League and cups

Hopes for the season: I would like to hope we will be top 5, and hopefully pushing towards the promotion places

Players in: Benji Silverblatt, Gideon Barth

Players out: N/A

Manager: Adam Glekin

Captain: James Neidle

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

KING CROWN

Competitions entered: Division 3 and the cups

Hopes for the season: We're looking to win the league with quality football

Players in: N/A

Players out: N/A

Manager: Jacob Kadoch

Captain: TBC

-----------------------

KS REUNITED (NEW TEAM)

Competitions entered: Morrison, Anekstein and Division Three

Hopes for the season: We have some great players so we hope that we can push some of the other "stronger" teams for the top few places in the league

Manager: James Lewis

Captain: Zack Gordon

Sponsor: Wonderlease

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

LONDON ROVERS (NEW TEAM)

Competitions entered: League and cups

Hopes for the season: We really feel this team that we have put together is very capable of going for the title

Manager: Jeremy Brown

Captain: TBC

Sponsor: Benjamin Steven Estate Agents

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

REAL SOSOBAD (NEW TEAM)

Competitions entered: Division Three and cups

Hopes for the season: We are setting out sights on being champions and an exciting cup run

Manager: Dan Shafron

Captain: Joe Grant

Sponsor: Focus Fitness UK

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

SHACHARIT DONESTSK (NEW TEAM)

Competitions entered: Division Three and cups

Hopes for the season: We will take none of our opponents lightly. The make-up of the team are very close friends, so the "Team Spirit" should be exemplary

Manager: Elliot Nussbaum

Captain: Gavriel Nussbaum

Sponsor: Lets Meat

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

TEMPLE FORTUNE

Competitions entered: Division Three and the cups

Hopes for the season: The objective is to enjoy a much better campaign. If we can challenge towards the upper half of the table then that will be a bonus!

Players in: Several, including Anthony Shaw

Players out: N/A

Manager: Jonathan Cohen

Captain: TBC

Sponsor: Daniel Stewart & Co

SEE FULL PREVIEW

-----------------------

Maccabi London Lions Green complete the division

WEEK ONE FIXTURES

Share via

Want more from the JC?

To continue reading, we just need a few details...

Want more from
the JC?

To continue reading, we just
need a few details...

Get the best news and views from across the Jewish world Get subscriber-only offers from our partners Subscribe to get access to our e-paper and archive