Chalvey Sports F.C secure their Premier Division status with win against K.S. Gryf

PICTURE: Chalvey Sports F.C have secured their position in the Premier Division for the 2025-26 season after a 4-1 win against KS Gryf on Saturday.

Chalvey Sports have secured their position in the East Berkshire League Premier Division for next season thanks to a 4-1 win against K.S. Gryf on Saturday.

The two sides have been struggling towards the bottom of the table this year but knew that securing all three points would end their battle with relegation: heaping more pressure on Pundit F.C who currently prop up the division.

To their credit, Chalvey have been improving in recent weeks, their record now stands at three wins and one defeat in the previous four matches, and those results have come in pressure-cooker situations against sides around them in the table.

Goals in the first half from Neo Hurst and James Hepburn put the Stabmonks in a good position at the Polish Association, and added strikes after the break from Zakaria Zaoui and James Hepburn made sure of a valuable success.

The win means Chalvey are now three points ahead of K.S. Gryf in the table, with Gryf needing to turn around an inferior goals difference of 16 in their final game of the campaign to move above the Stabmonks.

Pundit are bottom of the table and four points behind K.S Gryf but still with four matches to play this season, starting with a trip to Frontline on April 5. KS Gryf return to action at Old Windsor four days later.

Britwell extended their lead at the top of the table to five points after a 3-0 victory over Langley Reserves at the Chicken Ranch. Cheyenne Cripps stole the show with a hat-trick.

Langley are now five matches without a win in all competitions, their worst run of form all season, but the Merrymakers are still safely in mid-table and with a realistic chance of a top-four finish this year.

Britwell still have a remarkable perfect-winning record at home this year, 11 straight wins from 11 games in all competitions. They are still to welcome Chalvey Sports, FC Baylis United and Frontline to the Community Centre this Spring.

Old Windsor continue to give chase in the race for the championship with a 6-1 success at A.F.C Reading: The Os’ fourth straight win on the road in the league since losing at Britwell in early February.

Goals from Shane Qoloni and Matthew Williams gave the advantage to the visitors to Berkshire County Sports Club. Kingsley Etefia, signed from Pundit, and Harry Farnan made sure of the points early in the second half, before both Jordan Burns and Harry Crimmins came off the bench to put some icing on the cake.

The defending champions are now up one place to third in the table but, crucially, will have to beat Britwell when the rivals meet again May 10 and hope the current leaders drop points elsewhere too.

AFC Reading remain in seventh position and can still finish in the top half this season: they meet Cookham Dean this Saturday at Berkshire County Sports Club.