This week in BHTFC History

2025 - Women’s Team take two giant steps towards SCWGFL Championship title

A year ago, the Women’s side were in the midst of an epic promotion battle alongside Oakwood, Hailsham Town and Brighton Seagals.

On the 16th March, Hill travelled to Palatine Park to take on a Worthing Town DS side which proved to be a stern test despite their lowly position in the division. An even game for much of the first half, Alicia Haworth opened the scoring just before the interval. The hosts tired in the second half leaving spaces for Chloe Chesworth, Brogan Kirk and youth graduate Leonie Heath to grab goals- sparking some excellent celebrations as the Hillians took home a 4-0 win and all 3 points.

One week later on March 23rd, Town hosted Woodingdean Wanderers. The visitors came to Leylands Park with an excellent game plan in which they ceded almost all of the possession to their hosts and ensured that the bus was firmly parked in front of the goal.

Town spurned a number of great chances and one Becky Geraghty-Shewan – playing at full back for Woodingdean – was adjudged not to have Luis Suarez-style handled off the line (she has since admitted that this was a great save and was a stonewall handball…). It was beginning to look like the Hillians may have to settle for a solitary point. However, with SIX attackers on the pitch the deadlock was finally broken after Brogan Kirk’s long-range effort squirmed under the goalkeeper. She added another late on to give Burgess Hill a 2-0 win which proved crucial in the title race when the final table took shape.

Following the game, Hill’s management team spoke to Colin Bowman and expressed their admiration for Woodingdean’s performance and for pushing them beyond where the squad would normally have to go in order to find the win.