Grenfell Athletic F.C.

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Grenfell Athletic Football Club is an amateur association football club based in London, England. They have competed in the Middlesex County Football League Premier Division. [1] [2] [3] [4]

History

Grenfell Athletic was founded in 2017, [5] [6] [7] [8] in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire. [9]

References

  1. "Grenfell: How football helped a community heal – through the most fascinating of friendlies". fourfourtwo.com. 14 June 2022.
  2. "I founded Grenfell Athletic Football Club as a way to heal our local community". metro.co.uk. 4 September 2021.
  3. "Meet the Grenfell football team raising spirits one match at a time". standard.co.uk. 3 July 2021.
  4. "Grenfell Athletic boss understands Bill Shankly when he spoke about football's importance". mirror.co.uk. 31 July 2021.
  5. Foster, Richard (15 March 2022). "Grenfell Athletic: the football club uniting a community hit by tragedy". The Guardian. theguardian.com.
  6. Dogra, Anish (21 July 2021). "Grenfell Athletic: How a football club rose from the ashes to heal a community". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2022-03-31. Retrieved 2023-09-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  7. "Grenfell Athletic: The football club healing the wounds of a disaster". BBC Sport. bbc.com. 13 June 2020.
  8. "Grenfell Athletic: The club providing solace to a community four years after the Grenfell Tower fire". cnn.com. 14 June 2021.
  9. McRae, Donald. "'They saved my life': Grenfell Athletic create hopeful future despite pain of loss in tower fire". theguardian.com.