Harold Wood Athletic

Harold Wood Athletic "B" team play in the Mid-Essex Football League.
The "B" team were managed jointly by Chris Edkins & Matt Baker who joined the club in the 2011/2012 season.
They had a group of 8/9 mates that wanted to play 11-a-side and approached the club with a view to running the 'B' team.
With the addition of some new players local to the club, the "B" team enjoyed a mid-table finish in the first season before going on to win the Romford Charity Cup in the second.
Three years into the new management and there is a strong squad pushing for promotion into Division 3.
The 2013/14 saw Wood 'B' win The Mid Essex Division 4 Cup vs the favourites and eventual division winners,and just miss out on promotion finishing 5th.
Wood 'B' did get promotion the following season 2014/15 though, finishing 3rd.
In the 2016/17 they will be competing in The Mid Essex Division 2 after finishing as Champions of Division 3. They also won The Patrons Plate Final 2015/16.
2017/18 promoted to Division 1 & were runners up in the Patrons Plate KO Cup,losing 2-1 to United Churches Chelmsford.

2018/19 Matt Baker stood down as ass manager with Tom Noakes stepping up to replace him
For the 2019/20 Chris & Tom continued in charge with the ageing Brian Elwis joining the management team.
Unfortunately the 2019/20 season, was cut short due to Covid 19 pandemic and was Null & Void

Chris & Tom stepped down ahead of the 20/21 season, with Alfie (Mick) Pudney returning to The Wood to take up the reins, Pudz has been involved with the club for many years,playing in goal for the Colts side, when age eventually caught up him he went on playing & Managing the Vets Reserve's.He been away form us on a sabbatical for a few years, but its good to have him back at the club.
Joining Pudz in the dug out is Peter Jones our long serving treasurer who has also been involved with the club longer than he'd like to admit,it has been mention it was probably shortly after we were formed.
The team are competing in the Mid Essex League Division 3 for 2020/21 season..
Unfortunately early in the new year during lockdown 3, both Pudz & Peter sadly decided to step down for personal reasons.
Following on from Pete & Pudz stepping down ..
The good news was Club legends Lee Hammond & Steve Portway agreed to take over the mantle until the end of the season and gained promotion to Division 2.
Lee Hammond and Peter Jones managed the team for the 2021/22 .
But sadly both stood down at the end of the season after finishing 5th in the table.

Taking over for 2022/23 are Tom & Ed Moffat the much younger brothers of one time Club stalwart Joe...
*they were due to run the 'B' team but unfortunately we were unable to have an 'A' team for various reasons this season.. the League decide that to keep numbers up in division's that the 'B' would replace the 'A' team in Division 1.*

After not running the 'B' team in the 2022/23 season for the reasons stated above the Club were able to reinstate the team ready for the 23/24 campaign in the form of partner Club Cougars U17 (Yellows) from last season who were stepping up to play Mens Football for the first time along with a few old heads added to the squad for for experience with their management team of a few very familiar faces in & around the Wood of Lee Wettner, Gary Willis & Tom Lamb.
Sadly Gary, Lee & Tom left for pastures new at the end of the season.

Stepping in as The Manager ahead of the 2024/25 season will be the evergreen long serving player Ben Gibbons who brings with him a calming influence in the dugout with the aim of introducing 16/17 and 18 year olds into Men's Football.
The will be competing in The Mid Essex League Division 3.