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Dorothy Hyman Sports Centre
Capacity: 2,500
Cover: 600
Seats: 500
Floodlights: No
Address and Contact Number

Dorothy Hyman Sports Centre,
Snydale Road,
Cudworth,
Barnsley,
S72 8LH.
Tel: (0114) 250 7108

Directions

M1 junction 37, follow A628 for about three miles until you reach Cudworth, just after shops at top of hill turn right into Snydale Road. Ground is 400yds on left behind Leisure Centre.

AFC Barnsley Crest

The new kids on the block in the Sheffield and Hallamshire area. Following on in the same vein as Enfield Town and AFC Wimbledon, this club is born out of disillusionment of their old team. They are based at the Dorothy Hyman Stadium in Cudworth, the facilities here are light-years better than their counterparts in this league. The level of support is encouraging too, over 200 for their first league game which obviously makes a sound base to start at.

With the surroundings, programme, tannoy announcer etc this is a club whose background is professional rather than non-league orientated. Whether this enthusiasm will last remains to be seen, but at the moment it makes a refreshing change.

AFC Barnsley Programme

Based on the level of support expected and the fact that the club's founders were all followers of a professional league team prior to AFC's birth, you'd expect the programme to be a good one. If anything it surpasses expectations and then some more!
Remember this club is in the County Senior League DIVISION TWO, equivalent to ten levels beneath Football League standard and they have gone out of the way to produce this. 20 full colour, glossy pages with photos, articles etc, you don't get much better than this at Non-League level. Only drawback is the £1.50 cover-price, but you get what you pay for.
 
 
10/10 (Region's best, folks)