Surrey representative football team

County of Surrey

Nickname(s)	Blue and Gold
Association	International Surrey Football
Sub-confederation	County Football Federation
Confederation	N/A
Head coach	Matt Dilger
Most Cap	3 Players (1)
Top scorer	5 Players (1)
Home stadium	Various
MFA Code	SRY
Home colors Away colours
First international
Surrey 3 - 1 Barawa (Rotherhithe, Surrey; 6 May 2018)
Biggest win
Surrey 3 - 1 Barawa (Rotherhithe, Surrey; 6 May 2018)
Biggest defeat
Army FA 6 - 0 Surrey (Aldershot, Hampshire; 13 March 2019)

The Surrey Representative Football Team represents the county of Surrey, England, in both inter-county and international football and is controlled by International Surrey Football. The team was founded in June 2014 following a failed attempt to arrange a fixture against the Sealand national football team by the Dale-Westland Football Union due to a shortage of players available in the micronational community, it was seen by instead focusing of regionalised football the increased access to non-league players would both ease the demand for players and increase the quality of the team involved.

Coaching staff

Between its founding in 2014 and mid-2016 former Dale citizen James Hunt was considered the unofficial manager of the Surrey representative team, but with little progression, only 4 players, president Danny Clarke and manager James Hunt included, having agreed to play, it wasn't until the official appointment of a then serving manager, Michael Lee Charles of Alton Football club, on August 17, 2016, that the team finally began to take shape with 10 players announced in the space of 2 days. On August 26, 2016, International Surrey Football announced the appointment of its first ever assistant manager, Badshot Lea assistant manager, Matthew Angell, would eventually step down from the role. The ISF would welcome their third member of their coaching staff Aldershot Town FC Academy and A.F.C. Bournemouth youth coach Lee Collier on September 24, 2016. The latest member of coaching staff was that of Liam Parrington, former West Ham United and England Youth International, appointed September 1, 2017. Michael Lee Charles was replaced with Surrey first team coach, Liam Parrington, on September 5, 2017, after becoming the manager cloeset to achieving a fixture without successfully playing one.

Surrey 'A'			Surrey 'B'
Manager	Nat.	Span	Manager	Nat.	Span
James Hunt		2014 – 2016	TBC		2017 – Present
Michael Lee Charles		2016 – 2017
Liam Parrington		2017 – 2019
Matt Dilger		2019 – Present
Assistant Manager	Nat.	Span	Assistant Manager	Nat.	Span
Matthew Angell		2016 – 2017	TBC		2017 – Present
Ben Ewing		2018 - Present
Coach	Nat.	Span	Coach	Nat.	Span
TBC		2017 – Present	TBC		2017 – Present
Goalkeeping Coach	Nat.	Span	Goalkeeping Coach	Nat.	Span
John O'Brien		2018 – Present	TBC		2017 – Present

Current Squad

#	Pos.	Player	Date of Birth	Caps	Goals	Club
	GK	Ashley West		1	0	Unattached
	DF	Josh Burrowes		1	0	Guildford City
	DF	Lea'van Sullivan		1	1	Westfield
	DF	Kyle Bailey		1	0	Westfield
	DF	Ben Ewing		1	0	Spelthorne Sports
	DF	Felix Ahorlu		1	0	Tooting & Mitcham
	MF	Anis Nuur		1	0	Balham
	MF	Jordan Holmes		1	0	Raynes Park Vale
	FW	Jay Jones		1	0	Unattached
	FW	Malachi Thomas		1	1	Sutton Common Rovers
	GK	Kevin Wheller		1	0	Worcester Park
	MF	Matt Chatfield		1	0	Wey Hill
	MF	Jarvis Nutt		1	1	Unattached
	MF	Daré Mustapha		1	0	Wanderers
	FW	Nebay Haile		1	0	Staines Town

Team Image

Media Coverage

International Surrey Football lacked notable media coverage for most of its early history with the Dale News Agency, owned and operated by ISF founder Danny Clarke, providing any news coverage of the team and its expansion following its appointment of Michael Lee Charles as manager. However, this began to change following the announcement of its debut game against ConIFA member Barawa. The ISF had quickly changed the flow of media interest in the county team following the news with a number of news and radio journalist switching their attention to the ISF allowing for the greater publicity of the game to be made.

Kit

Following its foundation as the Surrey Independent Football Association, the team was expected to follow the colours of the Dale National Football Team, blue, white and red, with the only change being blue instead of red socks and had been planned as the team kit for both the scheduled, but ultimately cancelled games against Sealand and Sussex. However, with the resurgence in development of the team with its number of appointments and acquisitions it was decided the team would alter it's kits to better reflect the colours of the county flag, which consists of a checkered pattern of blue and gold, giving rise to one of the team's main social media hashtags, #GoldandBlue. on December 23, 2017, and January 26, 2018, International Surrey Football officially unveiled their first front shirt sponsor as well as sleeve sponsors DE Photo and JMA Programmes which we're both added to the Surrey kit in February 2018.

Period	Manufacturer	Front Sponsor	Back Sponsor	Sleeve Sponsor 1	Sleeve Sponsor 2
2016 - 2018	EV2 Sportswear	none	none	none	none
2018		DE Photo		JMA Programmes
2019 - Present	Godzown Sports	Pilgrim Brewery	Footballkitbox	FTT Podcast	CW Sport Radio

Home Stadium

The Surrey Representative Football Team does not technically have a designated home stadium and will ideally play in a number of grounds across Surrey and South West London in order to help spread awareness of its presence and ease travel to allow a larger number of players to compete for the team. With a number of cost effective grounds throughout Surrey because of the number of predominately non-league clubs, only 3 league clubs, it means it is reasonable for International Surrey Football to play throughout Surrey and find appropriate grounds to meet any possible demands in attendance that may occur as well as finding grounds that could meet possible media or security demands based on the profile and opposition involved in a given fixture.

Training Facilities

While International Surrey Football has no agreement with an official Surrey training facility it can be viewed the Surrey Sports Park, in Guildford, would be the most likely and most comparable facility for Surrey to the England national football team's St. George's Park. The facility opened in 2010, has hosted a number of teams competing in competitions in England such as the 2012 Olympics, 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup and Harlequins rugby club's official training facility. On August 9, 2017, International Surrey Football announced the intention to identify 5 National Training Centres in Surrey and South West London which form the main training facilities for the Surrey representative teams similar to similar facilities used by other national teams such as the Football Association, Canadian Football Association, and French Football Association. The titles are unofficial and are used to make players and coaches more aware of where training sessions could likely occur rather than any formal cooperation between International Surrey Football and the 5 facilities in question.

Facilities are grouped into 3 categories that could be applied to any facility regardless of whether or not it's part of the National Training Centre Network.

Category	Number of Pitches	Pitch Surface(s)	Function Rooms	Gym
A	Minimum 5	Grass and Synthetic	Yes	Yes
B	Minimum 3	Grass or Synthetic	Yes	No
C	Minimum 1	Grass or Synthetic	No	No

Facilities

Facility	Town	Pitch No.	Cat.
Surrey Sports Park	Guildford	6	A
Elmbridge Sports Hub	Walton-on-Thames	2	C
Winston Churchill School	Woking	2	C
Crystal Palace National Sports Centre	Upper Norwood	1	C
Meadowbank	Dorking	1	C

Grounds with 5,000 or above capacity

Stadium	Main club	City/Town	Capacity	Surface	League	Notes
Selhurst Park	Crystal Palace F.C.	South Norwood	26,255	Grass	Premier League	Plans to expand to 34,000 for 2020
The Den	Millwall F.C.	South Bermondsey	20,146	Grass	English Football League Championship
Crystal Palace National Sports Centre	None	Crystal Palace	16,000	Grass	None	Expandable to 24,000 with temporary seating
Plough Lane	AFC Wimbledon	Wimbledon	9,000	N/A	English Football League One	Proposed ground, built by 2019/20 season, expandable to 20,000
Croydon Sports Arena	Croydon F.C.	South Norwood	8,000	Grass	Southern Counties East League Premier Division
Kingfield Stadium	Woking F.C.	Woking	6,036	Grass	National League Premier
The Runnymede Stadium	Egham Town F.C.	Egham	5,500	Grass	Southern League Division One Central
Borough Sports Ground	Sutton United F.C.	Sutton	5,013	Synthetic	National League Premier
War Memorial Sports Ground	Carshalton Athletic F.C.	Carshalton	5,000	Synthetic	Isthmian League Division One South

Home Venues Record

Venue	Club	City / Town	First match	Most recent	Played	Record (W-D-L)	Surface	Capacity
Imber Court	Metropolitan Police FC	East Molesley	TBC 2019	TBC 2019	0	0 - 0 - 0	Grass	3,000
Moatside	Merstham FC	Merstham	28 April 2019	28 April 2019	1	0 - 0 - 1	Grass	2,500
St. Paul's Sports Ground	Fisher FC	Rotherhithe	6 May 2018	6 May 2018	1	1 - 0 - 0	Synthetic	1,000

Tournament Record

ConIFA World Football Cup Record

ConIFA World Football Cup
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
2014	Not a member of ConIFA
2016
2018
2020
Total	-	0/4	-	-	-	-	-	-

ConIFA European Football Cup Record

ConIFA European Football Cup
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
2015	Not a member of ConIFA
2017
2019
Total	-	0/3	-	-	-	-	-	-

Overall Record

Only 'A' team results shown.

Opponent	P	W	D	L	F	A
Barawa	1	1	0	0	3	1
Army FA	1	0	0	1	0	6
Chagos Islands	1	0	0	1	2	3
Total	3	1	0	2	5	10

Recent results and upcoming fixtures

Surrey A team

Competition	Date	Opponents	H / N / A	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance	Opposition Affiliation
Friendly match	May 6, 2018	Barawa	H	(St. Paul's Sports Ground)	3 - 1	Mal Thomas Lea'van Sullivan Jarvis Nutt		ConIFA
Friendly match	March 13, 2019	Army F.A.	A	(Aldershot Military Stadium)	6 - 0			FA
Friendly match	April 28, 2019	Chagos Islands	H	(Specsavers Stadium)	2 - 3	Nathanial Williams Liam Roberts	50	ConIFA
Friendly match	TBC 2019	Cascadia	H	(Imber Court)	TBC		TBC	ConIFA