Defender’s loan spell at Avenue extended

National North  Bradford City defender Reece Staunton is staying on loan at Bradford (Park Avenue) until January 5th. The 19-year-old, who turns 20 tomorrow, has been on loan at Mark Bower’s Avenue since last month. Staunton has played nine times in the first team. Avenue have also announced the exit of Matty Downing whose contract  read more→

National League North Round-Up

Bradford (Park Avenue) 1-1 Spennymoor Town Bradford (Park Avenue), coming off the back of a 3-2 win against Telford, faced Spennymoor Town, who have been struggling in recent times, losing four consecutive games.  This was the perfect chance for Bradford to climb up the table and they started the game on the front foot looking  read more→

Campion to face local rivals in County Cup

West Riding County Cup  Campion face a mouth-watering home contest with local neighbours Bradford (Park Avenue) in the West Riding County Cup first round draw. The tie is the stand-one from the draws for the competition which is taking place for the first time in two years. Holders Ossett United visit 2018 runners-up Selby Town  read more→

Nick Hey’s Non League Journey

We have another 1990s throwback with our latest Non League Journey with Nick Hey who long-term Bradford (Park Avenue) and Guiseley supporters will remember. Guiseley supporters will certainly have seen his name in the past few months as his young son Lewis has signed a contract with the club after breaking into the first team  read more→

Phil Sharpe’s Non League Journey

We have a real blockbuster for this week’s Non League Journey in former Non League striker and manager Phil Sharpe.  One-time record breaker Sharpe had a career some players can only dream of. He played in the Football League for Halifax Town and even on the continent for three years which proved to be a  read more→

Hazel becomes Avenue academy head coach

Former Nostell Miners Welfare manager Des Hazel is Bradford (Park Avenue)’s new academy head coach. Hazel has taken on the task of leading the project which caters for 16-to-18-year-olds. The post was previously held by Alex Meechan. The former Rotherham United and Chesterfield defender is a very experienced academy coach having also managed FC Halifax  read more→

Parkin set to entertain fans

Former Barnsley and York City striker Jon Parkin will be entertaining the masses at Bradford (Park Avenue) on Friday. Parkin will begin his laugh out loud routine at 8pm in the Horsfall Stadium clubhouse. Readers of his autobiography ‘Feed the Beast’ and listeners to the brilliant Undrthecosh podcast will know that he has plenty of  read more→

Avenue re-appoint Bower

Bradford (Park Avenue) have persuaded Mark Bower to return as manager, six months after he left the club by mutual consent. The reappointment completes six months of utter chaos at Horsfall Stadium which began with the exit of Bower. Rookie Garry Thompson replaced him, but was gone after the first two National North matches of  read more→

Avenue need to look local and into the past

The 2018/19 season goes from bad to worse for Bradford (Park Avenue). Two 5-0 defeats started the campaign and led to the sacking of rookie manager Garry Thompson.  In came interim boss Marcus Law. Results improved initially, but have now deteriorated to the extent that they were embarrassingly annihilated 8-0 by Brackley Town – one  read more→