“We want to build a real community based club here” says Twigworth Green FC Chairman after great start to debut season

This season saw a number of newly formed teams join the Stroud League for the 2025/26 campaign and after a great start to their season, the club have plans to grow both on and off the pitch.

On this weekend’s Buttee’s For Breakfast show, player/Chairman Brodie Goddard-Jones joins us to talk about how the club was formed and plans for the future.

One of the things Goddard-Jones talks about is how much interest the club had from prospective players during the summer.

“Our numbers were pretty crazy!” Goddard-Jones said. “We had a few, I think maybe five or six that I knew that would come and play for us, but we did put out a sign-on sheet locally around Twigworth and we ended up having about 40 people sign on in the pre-season, which was quite a lot.

Now, I know that’s pre-season and you start high and then some people drop out etc, but now we’re about 30 strong who have signed on for us. So I was almost kicking myself I didn’t set up two sides.

So we have plans to do a Reserves for next year, that’s definitely in our plans. I think we’ll probably need another 10 or 15 more players just so we’ve got a good solid base to run two teams – so yeah, if anyone is looking for a new team for next year, hit us up,” Goddard-Jones added.

Twigworth Green are seven games into their debut Stroud League season and have won four and drawn three, seeing them 2nd in the table, with the best defence in Division Five North and Goddard-Jones admits that the start has exceeding all expectations.

“Completely not [when asked if the start was anticipated]. We played a couple of pre-season games and we went down to Bristol to play against a team and to be honest with you, there was a moment I was thinking, ‘what have we done here?’ We got battered.

But it really didn’t take us long to start gelling and find our form and when the season came around, I could not have imagined we’d be playing the football we are playing right now – considering the lads have only known each other for a few months,” said Goddard-Jones.

This weekend sees Twigworth Green head to Charlton Rovers Reserves in their first ever County Cup fixture and when discussing long term ambitions, Goddard-Jones says that one of the main reasons for forming the club is to build a strong sense of community with the residents of Twigworth and to give them a football club to call their own and be proud of.

“We’ve got a lot of players that also live around here, they’ve got kids as well so we wanted to start with a Men’s team and include as many local people as possible in that Men’s team to set the foundation, who, effectively will be growing the club.

We will have players who have kids and naturally they want them to play for a Twigworth Green under six, sevens, eights, however it may go.

We want to build a real community based club here. We want to have kids football, we want to have youth football, we want to have Women’s football, we want to have Men’s football, that’s really the goal here.

But it was about setting the right foundation in first, getting the right volunteers around and now we’re going off and making our bigger plans,” said Goddard-Jones.

Listen to Brodie Goddard-Jones’ full interview on this week’s Buttee’s For Breakfast show on Saturday morning, live from 9am.

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