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Women’s Match Preview: Salford City (A) Weds 21st Aug 7:30pm kick-off

Our Women’s first team start the season tonight against Salford City Lionesses. In the opening game of the season the girls will look to start the campaign under Jason Jarrett as they mean to go on.
 
Last week Salford were beaten 1-0 in a tough away opener against Tranmere Rovers. Salford endured a tough 2023/24 season finishing 10th in the North West Women’s Regional League (same division as Bury) picking up just 7 points fewer than Wednesday’s opponents, Bury.
 
In the sides most recent meeting it was Bury who came out on top with a convincing 4-0 victory in April in what was the side’s final match of the season. Early in the season, in Bury’s home fixture, Salford produced a second-half masterclass to earn a 5-0 win.
 
Amongst the summer signings to strengthen squad depth ahead of the new campaign include 16-year-old, latest arrival Leah Costello Eastwood, former Tottenham Hotspur defender Jordan Harding and 16-year-old forward Natalie Ainsworth who has looked like a confident goal scorer in pre-season.
 
Why not come down and support the girls at St Ambrose Barlow RC High School where this match against Salford will be taking place.
 
We hope to see you there tonight for what should be an interesting fixture that we hope Bury can come out on top of.
 

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Match Info: AFC Liverpool (H), Tue 20th Aug, 7:45pm KO

We face AFC Liverpool tomorrow (7.45pm) as we start a run of three home games in seven days. And we do so in good heart after two great victories.

Notching up an impressive 2-1 win against Avro in the Emirates FA Cup Preliminary Round on Saturday after that thumping 7-1 win at Abbey Hey four days earlier.

The Shakers took the lead against the Northern Premier League side through Alex Cherera just before half-time. The Oldham side equalised through a free kick late in the second half just as Lewis Alessandra came on as a substitute. But new signing Alessandra grabbed the winner three minutes from time.

Maghull FC follow AFC Liverpool at Gigg next Saturday, and Cheadle Town FC on Bank Holiday Monday (both 3.00pm).

The last time Bury were at home they played out a disappointing 2-2 draw against Irlam in the first game on the new 3G pitch. We are hoping for better as welcome Merseyside-based opposition to Gigg Lane for the first time of the season. Get all your match details below.
 
        In Opposition – AFC Liverpool
AFC Liverpool are currently fourth in the NWCFL Premiership table, having won three and drawn one of their four matches, just ahead of Bury’s two wins and two draws.
 
The club was born in 2008 as an expression of frustration by 1,000 Liverpool FC fans at the cost and difficulty of getting tickets for Premier League matches.
 
They insisted that they had no issue with the Anfield club or its owners but with the way the top end of English football was being run. Indeed, they hoped to be considered Liverpool’s “little brother”.
 
After entering into a ground-sharing agreement with Prescot Cables, they joined the North West Counties Football League and three years later accepted the offer of a place in the Premier Division. After relegation and then promotion, they are now seen as an established Premier Division team.
 
  On the Day & In the Ground
Our brand new Matchday @ Gigg guide is available to read to find out everything you need to know going on in and around the ground.

Click on the image to the left to review all Gigg has to offer!

Lee Bracey is our special guest in Starkies & Eyelevel Sponsors Lounge.
    Match Coverage & Live Stream
If you are unable to make it to the action at Gigg Lane, we’ll have all the live coverage across our media platforms.
  Live Stream: The game will be broadcast live from Gigg Lane via our new streaming service accessed via TicketCo. The cost is £7.29 (inc.VAT & fees), with kick-off at 7.45pm.
 
Season ticket holders can gain access to live streams for FREE as part of their season ticket purchase. Enter your 5-letter reference code from your season ticket receipt in the ‘Promocode’ box and click apply.
 
Your link to access the game will be provided in your receipt following the transaction.

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE/ACCESS THE LIVE STREAM

Keep up-to-date with all our video content via the club’s YouTube Channel. Click to subscribe and never miss highlights and match reaction across the season.
  Audio Commentary: Roch Valley Radio will be providing commentary for this game. Join the team from the press box at Gigg Lane. Click here ahead of kick-off to listen live. Audio commentary will be provided for every game of the season, so you will never miss a piece of the action.
  Social Media: Our team will also bring you in-depth text commentary via the club ‘MatchDay Live‘ Twitter feed, with team news and half time and full time updates available also on Facebook and feel like you are there with our match galleries and imagery available over on Instagram.
  Whatever the weather, wherever you are across the globe, we have you covered.
  Up the Shakers!
  #ShakersTogether | #BuryFC | #PartofIt
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This Sunday: Bury FC Family Fun Day

This Sunday (25th August), we are hosting our 2024 Family Fun Day at Gigg Lane.

Doors open at 10am, with a 7 a side tournament taking place on the new artificial surface from 10:30am.

Following the tournament, a winners presentation will take place, after which the Women’s First Team will face Tranmere Rovers in their opening home game of the season. 2pm kick-off.
 

Two 11 a side charity matches, will take place from 4:15pm, with the event finishing at 6pm.

A funfair will be on the car park from 10:30, and live music throughout the afternoon.

We’ll also have a bar open from midday, selling alcoholic and soft drinks.

The car park will also play host to various stalls including kids & adult tombolas and craft stalls.

Hot Food will also be available.

Tickets remain on sale, £3 adults & free Under 16s, via our website, click here to purchase
 
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Legends Q&A: Lee Bracey

Lee Bracey will be our guest for the AFC Liverpool fixture tomorrow evening, James Bentley looks back on his career.

Lee Bracey arrived at Gigg Lane from Halifax Town in the late summer of 1993, following Gary Kelly’s injury sustained after John McGinlay’s vicious assault on him in the first round of the League Cup versus Bolton, which Bury won 2-0.
 

Choosing not to continue with Craig Nixon, who replaced Kelly from the bench, or amateur Paul Collings, who played the first game after the Bolton game, manager Mike Walsh turned to Bracey and gave him a route back into the Football League following Halifax’s relegation into the Conference the season before. His Bury debut was the second leg of the League Cup tie and after the Wanderers drew the tie level in normal time, the match went to a penalty shootout. Bracey saved the first penalty, taken by former Shakers hero David Lee, though the visitors went on to claim victory.
 
Penalties were something of a speciality of Bracey’s during his time at Bury. While he was at Swansea City, he saved a Liam Robinson spot kick on a snow-covered Gigg Lane pitch in February 1991 and he continued this fine form from 12 yards with saves in the home win versus S¿¿¿¿horpe United and two in the same game at Doncaster Rovers’ tumbledown Belle Vue, in a game which Bury won 3-1.
 

Bracey played every game for the remainder of the 1993/94 season but the following two seasons saw him as second choice following Kelly’s recovery. However, he always stepped up to the plate when he was needed across those two campaigns including in such crucial games as the FA Cup second round match versus Crewe at Gresty Road in which Bury shocked their opponents from the division above their own.
 
After Kelly’s departure, Lee remained second choice following Dean Kiely’s arrival. He did not make any appearances in the 1996/97 season and after the Shakers sealed the Division Two championship he moved to Ipswich Town for a fee of £40,000. He later played for Hull City, where he saw out his Football League days.
 
Credit: Greater Manchester Police

While first training and subsequently working as a constable for Greater Manchester Police, Essex boy Lee turned out for a number of non-league clubs in the north including Chorley and Rossendale United. He has settled in the area with his wife Claire and their two boys and it will be a pleasure to welcome back this fans’ favourite.
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Match Info: Avro (A), Sat 17th Aug, 3pm KO

Wow! Bury go into their FA Cup preliminary round match at Avro on Saturday with confidence sky high after a thumping 7-1 league victory at Abbey Hey on Tuesday.
 
The Shakers needed a good performance after the tame home draw against Irlam at Gigg Lane last weekend. And they lived up to their nickname with six goals in an amazing second half.
 
The goal-fest began with a rapid-fire hat-trick in 10 minutes from Reuben Jerome, followed by goals Rustam Stepan (71), Cameron Fogarty (80) and Efe Ambrose (92).    
 
There was little warning of what was to come in the first half, when Bury’s dominance was rewarded by just one goal from Bebeto Gomes on 13 minutes.
 
The victory keeps them just two points behind leaders Charnock Richard, and gives them a goal difference of 10 – not bad after just four league games!
    In Opposition – Avro

Avro FC have won one and lost one of their first two games in the  Northern Premier League West Division. After a 1-0 victory at home to Atherton Collieries on Saturday they lost by the same score at Wythenshawe Town on Tuesday. There was a touch of irony there, because Town were promoted last season via the NWCL premiership play-offs at Bury’s expense.

 
This is the Oldham club’s second season in the NPL. They started life in 1936 at the Failsworth factory of aircraft builder A V Roe. The club joined the Manchester League in 1954. They were promoted to the league’s Premier Division exactly half a century later. They topped the division in 2010 and held on to the title in the following season.
 
A big step forward came in 2017 when they left their Failsworth base and moved to a newly-built stadium in Oldham. For several years they shared the ground – now called the Vestacare Stadium – with the Oldham rugby league club. It has a 4G artificial turf pitch.

In 2018, Avro were promoted to the North West Counties League Division One North, and the following year went up to the Premier Division after finishing second.  

 
Tickets
Purchase your tickets in advance here


This game is ALL TICKET – no pay on the day will be available.

 
On the Day & In the Ground
Travel by Train: Mainline Rail – Manchester Victoria or Moston. Metrolink – Hollinwood (20 mins walk)


Travel by public bus:  180 from Oldham Street (Stop A) Manchester city centre, to Hollins Rd/Oak Rd then walk 5 minutes down Oak Rd to stadium.


Driving: M60 J22 then A62 towards Manchester/Failsworth. First left onto Hollins Rd – signposted Oldham South and Hollinwood. Follow Hollins Rd to junction with Oak Rd – just before petrol station – then Oak Rd to Whitebank Rd.

SatNav Postcode: OL8 3JH

WhatThreeWords: ///trace.lists.older
 

  Parking: Parking is available adjacent to White Bank Road (West Side of the Stadium), and beyond there is an overflow carpark.

Parking – The Vestacare Stadium

Please park considerately and think of local residents.
  Inside The Ground: There will also be our two main bars, and food area, in addition, there will be some temporary concessions around the Stadium.
 
#NonLeagueDogs: Dogs aren’t allowed in the ground on Saturday.
  Match Coverage & Live Stream
If you are unable to make it to the action, we’ll have all the live coverage across our media platforms.
  Live Stream: For this game, we will have no live stream. Keep up-to-date with all our video content via the club’s YouTube Channel. Click to subscribe and never miss highlights and match reaction across the season.
  Audio Commentary: Roch Valley Radio will be providing commentary for this game. Click here ahead of kick-off to listen live. Audio commentary will be provided for every game of the season, so you will never miss a piece of the action.
  Social Media: Our team will also bring you in-depth text commentary via the club ‘MatchDay Live‘ Twitter feed, with team news and half time and full time updates available also on Facebook and feel like you are there with our match galleries and imagery available over on Instagram.
  Whatever the weather, wherever you are across the globe, we have you covered.
  Up the Shakers!
  #ShakersTogether | #BuryFC | #PartofIt
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Treasureline: Week 12

This week’s Treasureline Winners for Week 12 – 14th August 2024 are in! The rollover this week was £1500 and remember it can reach up to a life-changing £10,000!!

Want to be part of it? Join here
Prize Draw No. Members Name £1500 Rollover NJ0825 NO WINNER £1000 SB5255 E SHUFFLEBOTHAM £100 LL0114 T TOWLER £50 HA2402 R SOLWAY £50 RP5399 P OWENS £25 SB5835 J PEDDER £25 HM0270 R CALLISTER £10 HL2381 G THOMAS £10 LL3751 S LUNN £10 PB2520 J WOODMAN £10 LL0381 J BROWN £10 NQ3224 S WESTWOOD £10 RQ1480 P BURROW £10 NG3636 A KEERS £10 LL4095 D ROBERTSHAW £10 RA1317 E SCHOFIELD £10 RQ4395 C OAKLEY Bury FC is a partner of NYCDA and a beneficiary of the NYCDA Weekly Draw. Gambling Commission account number 5166. Registered Office: 1-2 Frecheville Court, Bury, BL9 0UF. Responsible Person: Mr M Brocklehurst. For more information, please visit www.nycdaweeklydraw.co.uk/treasureline.
 
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FANS’ STORIES REQUIRED – ‘GOING TO THE MATCH’

The team at Bury Art Museum are asking for Bury FC fans to put pen to paper and write down your personal stories of why you support the Shakers.


How did you come to support the club?  Did your parents / grandparents support Bury? What was your first ever match?  What are your best memories of supporting the Shakers?  What does the club mean to you and your family?
 
These memories and stories  will be included in a booklet  which will be available for everyone to read at an exhibition “Going To The Match” which will be held at the Art Museum from 4th October 2024 through to 1st March 2025. 
 
If you would like to take part, please email your stories (no longer than 350 words) in Word format before the deadline of 26th August to artgallery@bury.gov.uk    
 
The focal point of the exhibition will be LS Lowry’s masterpiece ‘Going to the Match’, the 1953 painting which depicts fans arriving for a Bolton Wanderers game at Burnden Park.
 
The exhibition will focus on football fans and will include iconic photographs of football fans from various north-west clubs, including Bury, Manchester United, Manchester City, Everton, Liverpool, Oldham and Bolton.  There will also be various interesting Bury FC historical and fan-related items on display at the exhibition.
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