Football

With just a week to go until the highly anticipated Workwear Island Charity Football Match, excitement is building as the event edges closer to its £2,000 fundraising target on JustGiving. Taking place on Sunday 25th May, at Brading Football Club,...

Bembridge Youth FC have been awarded the title of Grassroots Club of the Year by the Hampshire Football Association. The East Wight side are one of over a thousand clubs affiliated to the association in Hampshire and the Isle of...

Cowes Sports winger Connor Kelly has left the Yachtsmen to join the Isle of Wight's only other Wessex Premier side, East Cowes Victoria. Connor Kelly joined Cowes Sports in the Summer of 2023 from Newport. In the 2023/24 season, he...

Cowes Sports have won the Isle of Wight Senior (Gold) Cup for the 3rd successive year by beating local rivals East Cowes Vics in front of 982 spectators at the Zilch Waste Stadium this afternoon (Saturday). Such was the interest...

Ahead of East Cowes Victoria's Gold Cup final derby against Cowes Sports this afternoon (Saturday), Island Echo has spoken to manager Alex Smith - just days after leading the Isle of Wight club to promotion into the Wessex Premier. Although...

West Wight Reserves won the Isle of Wight Junior A Cup by beating Oakfield on penalties at Beatrice Avenue last night (Wednesday). This is the 2nd trophy for West Wight Reserves in 2024/25 after having already won Combination 1 by...

Wight Eagles Academy U15 side were crowned Champions of Hampshire girls Division 2 after a 4-2 victory over runners-up Ringwood Town at the Zilch Waste Stadium (Westwood Park) on Saturday (3rd May). The Islanders started strongly and went 1-0 up...

Former team members of the Plessey Sunday League side recently commemorated the 40th anniversary of winning Sunday League Division 1 and Isle of Wight Albany Cup in 1985 at the Isle of Wight Community Club. The Plessey Sunday League side...

East Cowes Victoria have joined local rivals Cowes Sports in the Wessex Premier League after defeating Frimley Green on penalties in the Wessex Division 1 playoffs final. Vics had previously never achieved promotion in their entire history as a Wessex...

The Bay CE School U13 girls’ football team had an incredibly successful season, securing 3 out of 3 medals in the Isle of Wight schools competitions. The Bay CE School team beat Cowes Enterprise College 1-0 in a nail-biting encounter...