10 July 2018

VMFC is seeking a new coach with at least FA Level 2 and experience of coaching adult players at a competitive level. 

26 January 2018

Our review of the first half of the season. The first team, the second team, the GFSN team, the highs, the lows, the laces, the awards...

15 August 2017

In July we hosted the GFSN summer tournament. With 32 teams and 300 players, it was a huge success. Our organiser reviews it here. 

2 August 2017

VMFC players were interviewed by the I Love Manchester website for a great article about the club. 

13 July 2017

We appeared on the Canal Street website for hosting the GFSN Summer Get Together tournament. 

10 June 2017

At the end of May, over 20 VMFC players and supporters made their way across the Pond to take part in the Miami World OutGames. It almost ended before it started...

9 May 2017

VMFC is heading across the Pond to take part in the IGLFA Unity Cup at the World OutGames in Miami. 

9 May 2017

April was marked by the first team ending their first season in the Lancashire & Cheshire League with a second place finish and potential promotion. 

6 May 2017

We finished our domestic season with our End of Season Do, AGM and Awards. See who won. 

13 April 2017

We held our annual Easter kit night, and as well as showing our kit off on Canal Street, we got our kit off!

30 March 2017

A great month for the first team saw them consolidate their position in the League with no losses. 

19 March 2017

The firsts and seconds made the short tip over the Pennines to take part in the Yorkshire Terreirs' annual tournament and made it to the semi finals in each of the two divisions. 

28 February 2017

Our busiest February in years saw three matches each for the firsts and seconds, and a second friendly for our veterans, the Village Elders. 

28 February 2017

With a trip to Miami in May 2017 and a trip to Paris in August 2018 planned (and Rome the following year) we're getting excited for overseas tours!

18 February 2017

Both team games that day were held to mark Football v Homophobia month and were delighted to welcome several dignitaries to the first team's game. 

18 February 2017

Regular first teamer Alex West takes over managing the second team as Rob McPherson steps down after two and a half years. 

30 January 2017

It was a packed and mostly successful month with five matches, a busy Player of the Month social and training in the snow. 

31 December 2016

Both teams had a couple of games and we enjoyed the silliness of our Christmas Do in Blackpool. 

9 December 2016

We look back at an interview with then first team manager Ant Lockley in OutNorthWest magazine in 2008. 

2 December 2016

Manchester news website The Northern Quota came to film us at training. 

30 November 2016

It was a tough month for both teams without a win between them. 

8 November 2016

In October 1997, in our second year of existence, the Manchester Evening News visited VMFC playing a friendly in Fallowfield. There followed a great article about the club. 

8 November 2016

We look back at an article about Village Manchester FC that appeared in The Big Issue in the North in August 1997, about 18 months after the club formed. 

31 October 2016

It was a mad busy month with the first team playing five games in three competitions, the seconds having three games in three competitions plus a tournament and the Village Elders veterans having their first full game. We also appeared on TV and had an amazing Halloween. 

30 October 2016

Amazing costumes, crazy makeup and two players of the month gave us an awesome Halloween night out. Check out the pictures!

26 October 2016

A new BBC survey into fan attitudes to gay sports players was released and VMFC's James appeared on BBC2's Victoria Derbyshire programm. 

27 September 2016

It was a busy month with the first team playing four games in its new league, the seconds starting their GFSN league journey, and our annual club photo at the Etihad Stadium.

6 September 2016

We once again did our photoshoot at the Etihad Stadium, thanks to Manchester City and City in the Community

1 September 2016

It was probably our busiest Manchester Pride ever with our own Pride Cup tournament, End of Season Do, It's a Gay Knockout, the biggest ever turnout for the Parade, kit night, expo and the vigil. 

31 August 2016

The first team is entering the 108 year old Lancashire & Cheshire Leauge for the very first time, and moves to Saturday afternoons. 

31 August 2016

GFSN League, GFSN Cup, Sunday Amateur Cup, M62 League... we look at everything that's coming up this season. 

20 August 2016

After the fun of our Pride Cup, we held our End of Season Do and Annual Awards. There were even a couple of new awards. Find out who won...

20 August 2016

What started out as a simple friendly grew into a mini tournament with six teams, with the first ever Village Elders vetarans team. 

16 August 2016

During August we held Tuesday evening fitness sessions in addition to our usual Thursday evening football training. Take a look at what we got up to. 

10 August 2016

New sponsors means new kit, and we decided to mark the occasion with three evenings of studio photo shoots to give us hundreds of new images. 

5 July 2016

After 20 years playing Sunday morning football, our first team is moving to Saturday afternoons. 

4 July 2016

The Euro 2016 tournament might not have gone as far as we'd have liked for England, but we enjoyed watching matches in POTM sponsors New York New York. 

11 June 2016

We took two teams to the annual Gay Football Supporters Network tournament and the first team came away with the silverware. 

1 June 2016

VMFC is very excited to announce a new multi year sponsorship deal with Manchester and Midlands based IT support company Linten Technologies.

25 May 2016

It was a mad couple of weeks for the first team as they played five games in just 15 days in the race to complete the season after horrendous weather earlier. 

6 May 2016

VMFC held its Annual General Meeting to elect its new committee, followed by a big ol' party at New York New York to celebrate its 20th anniversary. 

24 April 2016

Both of the club’s teams have reason to be happy with their on-field performances in April with the first team taking a positive stride towards safety and the second team securing promotion. 

31 March 2016

March’s games were again interrupted for the first team with two games getting cancelled but both teams still did have a good amount of football to play in the month. And April looks to be busy one with at least four games arranged.

25 March 2016

We held our March player of the month awards at awards sponsors New York New York and followed this by a great kit night, promoting the club throughout the Village. 

20 March 2016

We took two teams over to Leeds for the Yorkshire Terriers annual five a side tournament and came home with the silverware. 

14 February 2016

Football v Homophobia is an international initiative opposing homophobia in football at all levels - from grassroots to the professional game. During February events happened at clubs throughout the UK and VMFC took part in events at Manchester City. 

1 February 2016

Village Manchester have two teams that are involved in both local and national leagues but the club is also eager to take part in as many tournaments as possible to get pitch time for its players. In the upcoming months the club has confirmed that it is competing in a number of tournaments up and down the country. 

31 December 2015

A fourth round cup match, awesome Christmas Do and two matches at the AJ Memorial Tournament. 

20 December 2015

Village Manchester Football Club was honoured to take part in this memorial to our former player AJ, who died in October, and to join with his other former teams Nottingham BallBois and Yorkshire Terriers. 

15 December 2015

The weather took its toll on a couple of fixtures this month as winter began to set in. Still, the club competed in five games in November – three for the first team and two for the second team. 

14 November 2015

VMFC put on its second comedy night of the year raising £1,500 for local adoption charity After Adoption. 

30 October 2015

In October we were devastated to learn of the death of one of our own, AJ. 

30 October 2015

Five games saw the two teams in Cup and League action with a mix of results. 

29 September 2015

The first month of the 2015-2016 season has been completed and it has been a mixed bag for the club.

31 August 2015

Manchester Pride is always busy and 2015 was no different. We had our annual photoshoot at the Etihad Stadium, Polly's It's a Gay Knockout at New York New York, a Pride Cup mini tournament against Yorkshire Terriers and Mersey Marauders, and of course the parade.

27 August 2015

Once again Manchester City kindly allowed us to have our annual photoshoot at the Etihad Stadium. 

21 August 2015

A great evening of presentatioins, laughter and of course the annual awards, including a rare lifetime achievement gong. 

8 August 2015

Our second European tour of the summer was to the EuroGames in Stockholm. Great weather, a beautiful city, amazing football and silver medals. 

18 July 2015

Read our review of the third annual RugBall afternoon with the Manchester Village Spartans RUFC. Touch rugby, football and drinking games. 

29 June 2015

Now is the time to join VMFC - we have fitness training every Tuesday and football training every Thursday throughout the summer. And it's free for your first month. 

13 June 2015

We went to Hamburg as IGLFA European Champions and had a great time competing. For the first time we didn't make it to the final, but it was as superb tour. Read how it went and check out the photos and tweets. 

30 May 2015

Village Manchester fell just short at reaching their second GFSN Cup final in two years as they dropped out the completion at the semi-final stage.

28 May 2015

Our annual general meeting was held with exciting reports from the Chair and Treasurer followed by the election of the new committee. 

28 May 2015

The first team started well but struggled as the year went on. A New Year surge wasn't enough to stop the team ending in the relegation zone. 

1 May 2015

We are delighted to announce the extension of the club's sponsorship deal with Recon into a tenth year!

30 April 2015

The second team’s league – the Manchester City Central League – concluded in May and, although it was a tough season results-wise for the team, there were quite a few positives to take out of the campaign.

14 March 2015

The Club headed north to battle against Saltire Thistle in the GFSN Cup semi final. It was a tough match and not the result we wanted, but a good time was had by all.

6 March 2015

The lads hit Canal Street in kit to promote the club and prooved, if proof be needed, that VMFC knows how to have a good time. 

24 February 2015

We take a look at the journeys that Village Manchester and Saltire Thistle have taken to reach the GFSN Cup semi final, to be held in Glasgow in March.

7 February 2015

VMFC took part in a question and answer session on the stage in City Square before City's game against Hull, and at half time five of our lads took part in the crossbar challenge. 

6 February 2015

The club holds a sell out comedy night at Sackville Lounge in the heart of the Village and raises nearly £1,300 for a new second team kit. 

6 December 2014

On the same day we send a team to Nottingham for the GFSN Cup quarter final against East End Phoenix, and also launch our brand new red kit, VMFC unveils its first logo change in ten years.

30 October 2014

It's been a difficult month for both teams as wins have been few and far between. 

30 October 2014

VMFC will be heading to Hamburg to defend its IGLFA European Champions title, and to Stockholm to defend its EuroGames title. 

30 September 2014

The first team got their season underway in September as they faced a trio of tough games in their opening Manchester Accountants League fixtures. And it was a mixed bag for the team as they earned a win, draw and a defeat.

29 September 2014

Our review of the 2014 campaign, our own press release, the Manchester Evening News article we contributed to, photos and Twitter feed. 

29 September 2014

Long time player Steve Curtis tells us how he came to find VMFC and what a difference it's made to him as a gay guy who loves football. 

10 September 2014

Canal St: Village Manchester, one of the leading gay football teams in the country, are throwing their support behind this year's Rainbow Laces campaign.

10 September 2014

Mancunian Matters: The city’s gay football team Village Manchester are putting their best foot forward and backing the national Rainbow Laces campaign, to encourage more people in the game to come out as gay.

9 September 2014

Read our press release about the club's support for the #RainbowLaces campaign

28 August 2014

With the support of Manchester City FC and their charity arm, City in the Community, VMFC made its way to the Etihad Stadium for our annual club photographs. 

28 August 2014

It's just over a week until the first team's season starts and just a few weeks until the second's starts. Plus, we're through to the next round of the GFSN Cup. 

27 August 2014

The return of football training, the addition of weeks of fitness training, and five friendlies gave VMFC a busy pre-season period. 

27 August 2014

After beating Trowbridge Tigers in the preliminary round, VMFC will be heading up to Newcastle, yet again, to play Newcastle Panthers in the Final 16 round. 

25 August 2014

A cup match against Mersey Marauders, the annual silliness of It's a Gay Knockout, the Parade and the Expo. Check out our photos. 

15 June 2014

Village Manchester headed down to Cardiff for the European Capital of Sport Unity Cup and headed home champions after a weekend of football, beer and a whole lot of sunshine!

6 June 2014

VMFC held its annual awards night. Find out who the winners were...

4 June 2014

Derbyshire FA: Saturday 31st May saw the final of the Gay Football Supporters Network (GFSN) Cup. The final was held at St Georges Park on the indoor 3G pitch and was played between Village Manchester F.C and London Romans F.C

3 June 2014

Manchester Pride, a supporter of Village Manchester Football Club for several years, has awarded a new grant to the club. 

3 June 2014

Village Manchester FC is off to the Welsh capital to take part in the European Capital of Sport's LGBT Unity Cup tournament. 

2 June 2014

GFSN: Saturday 31st May 2014 saw an excellent GFSN Cup Final at a fantastic venue - St George's Park, Burton-upon-Trent.

31 May 2014

Village Manchester made it to the Gay Football Supporters' Network's national Cup Final. Find out how we did.

29 May 2014

Mancunian Matters: One of the UK’s leading gay and inclusive football teams, Village Manchester is set to play at England’s new state of the art facility St George’s Park for a cup final.

27 May 2014

GFSN: This year's summer national get-together was held in a rainy Leeds over Spring Bank Holiday weekend.

27 May 2014

canal-st.co.uk: Village Manchester, one of the country’s leading gay and inclusive football teams, is competing in the GFSN Cup final at St George’s Park - the English Football Association's national football centre - later this month.

24 May 2014

Full details, photos and video of VMFC's participation in the 2014 GFSN summer get together in Leeds. 

30 April 2014

The GFSN summer get together tournament is fast approaching with a celebration of 25 years of the GFSN. Village hope to take at least two teams. 

30 April 2014

Village Manchester faces London Romans in the GFSN national Cup Final on 31 May. Details of the venue have now been announced. Read how both teams made it to the final. 

30 April 2014

The club suffered disappointment at the end of April with the first team bowing out of the Kings Cup and the second team losing their first match in the MCCL League Cup

4 March 2014

Campaigning organisation Just a Ball Game? organised a panel discussion at the National Football Museum, broadcast by BBC Radio Five Live. 

4 March 2014

The early summer will see VMFC teams heading to Leeds for the GFSN Summer Get Together and to Cardiff for the European City of Sport LGBT Unity Cup. 

4 March 2014

VMFC are through to two forthcoming Cup finals having beaten Audenshaw FC in the MCCL Cup on penalties, and a thrilling late goal in the GFSN Cup semi securing victory.

28 January

Former Premier League player Thomas Hitzlsperger and current semi-pro Liam Davis have come out as gay. Our take on how this affects homophobia in football 

28 January 2014

Village Manchester’s second team have an important game coming up in the next few weeks as they face HotScots in the semi-final of the GFSN Cup on 22 February.

28 January 2014

VMFC goalie and Social Secretary is to take to the streets by running the BUPAGreat Manchester Run for local charity the Albert Kennedy Trust. 

28 January 2014

We've totally revamped our website with a fresh new look and loads of new features. 

11 December 2013

VMFC's poster boy James Wilson appears on the cover of the Christmas issue of Gaylife Manchester magazine. 

4 December 2013

Now that 2013 is drawing to a close we thought what better time to look back at the year just gone.

4 December 2013

It has all gone a bit cup crazy lately at Village Manchester with both clubs taking part in two cups each.

30 October 2013

On the final weekend in November, Village Manchester travel to Newcastle to take on Leicester Wildecats in the GFSN Cup Quarter Final.

30 October 2013

With two months of the season already over we thought it would be a good point to look back at the season so far.

30 October 2013

Village Manchester's second team head into November's fixtures in positive mood following an encouraging start to the 2013/2014 season.

29 September 2013

Village Manchester joined numerous clubs and footballers across the UK to take part in The 'Right Behind Gay Footballers' campaign on the weekend of 21-22 September.

25 September 2013

Village Manchester's second team get their season underway this weekend when they take on New East Manchester B at Wright Robinson College.

20 September 2013

Village Manchester, one of the leading gay football teams in the country, are showing their support for the 'Right Behind Gay Footballers' campaign by wearing rainbow laces this weekend.

4 September 2013

Village Manchester kick off the 2013/2014 Manchester Accountants League season this weekend with a home game against Sporting Manchester.

31 August 2013

Village Manchester took part in the 23rd annual Manchester Pride celebrations over the August Bank Holiday weekend.

13 August 2013

Pete reviews Village's fourth-placed finish and general carnage at the 2013 Outgames in Antwerp.

29 July 2013

Village Manchester FC celebrated a European Cup winning season on Friday at Taurus at the club's annual End of Season Awards night.

16 June 2013

VMFC's long wait for an international trophy came to an end on June 15th when they won the IGLFA European Cup in Dublin.

3 June 2013

London Romans won the GFSN Summer Tournament during a brilliant weekend in Manchester, defeating London Falcons on penalties.

28 May 2013

VMFC will be welcoming footballers from across the country this weekend as Manchester hosts the annual GFSN Summer Tournament.

13 April 2013

They've been a long time coming but it's finally time to unveil our new kits!

28 July 2012

VMFC recognised the contributions of its players and supporters at our End of Season Awards Night on July 27th.

14 July 2012

Village Manchester FC are delighted to have been selected as part of the new National Football Museum in Manchester.

13 July 2012

With the new season rapidly approaching we've looked back at the stats for 2011/12. Will they help to decide who picks up awards at our End of Season do?

2 July 2012

Village Manchester FC struck gold at the EuroGames for the second year running on June 30th, defeating a combined Kingkickers Italia and Cargo Lyon side 1-0 at the Vasas SC stadium in Budapest, Hungary.

26 June 2012

VMFC head to Budapest, Hungary, on 27 June to compete in the Euro Games football tournament. 

12 June 2012

Writers from mens magazine, Halcyon visited VMFC in February to try and understand more about the issue of homosexuality in football and have featured the club in a four page article.

28 May 2012

Village Manchester FC dominated the GFSN Tournament with two teams reaching the final and the third team narrowly losing the vase play-off final on penalties.

20 March 2012

Village Manchester FC appeared on Sky Sports 1 last week as part of a special report on homophobia in football.

28 February 2012

Players and managers from Village Manchester FC travelled to Hyde United on February 25th to support their efforts in combating homophobia in football.

2 February 2012

Village Manchester Football Club manager, Antony Lockley, was on BBC 5 Live this morning to take part in a debate on homophobia in football.

30 January 2012

Sky Sports News spent Sunday morning with VMFC as part of a special report on homophobia in sports but their cameras could only capture a defeat as Village lost to last season's champions, Miam Miam Celtic.

14 February 2011

Village's second team won the inaugural VMFC Invitational Tournament after a thumping 14-0 win against Bristol saw them edge out Exeter on goal difference.

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13 December 2010

Village Manchester FC claimed their first silverware of the season as they smashed through the opposition in Liverpool to win the GFSN Winter 5/Side Tournament for the second year in a row.

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26 August 2010

Over the bank holiday weekend, Village Manchester FC will be joining in with the annual Pride celebrations in and around Canal Street. Come and see us at a variety of places...

23 August 2010

VMFC are back in action with training, friendlies and a 6/side tournament over the next two weeks. If you're of reasonable footballing ability why not come down and join us?

10 August 2010

Village Manchester FC finished in fifth place in the eighth Gay Games. The tournament, held in Cologne, Germany in the first week of August, saw two Village sides battle against teams from around the world.

25 July 2010

VMFC are due to fly out to Cologne at the end of the week, fully intent on bringing international silverware back to Manchester. The groups and fixtures have now been announced.

28 May 2010

In the build up to the 2009/10 end of season awards, the boys from Village Manchester FC decided to do something a little special and released their take on Glee's "Don't Stop Believing."

16 November 2009

Congratulations to our very own 'Smashie & Nicey', VMFC club chairman & BBC radio presenter Graham Liver has raised a massive eighteen thousand pounds for Children in Need by completed his week long 'chaaarrridy' bike ride from Leeds Castle in Kent to the BBC studios in Leeds, W.Yorks.

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29 September 2010

After more than a decade as first team captain, Village Manchester FC's living legend Jez Ure has handed over the armband at the start of the 2010/11 season. Ure's successor is his scouse junior, midfielder Jay McNaught.

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25 August 2009

Heading to Manchester for Pride this weekend? If so, why not find us on Sunday afternoon and take a penalty against Manchester City FC mascot Moonchester!

8 July 2009

We will be holding a meeting to present the clubs plans to compete in the football tournament at the 2010 Gay Games in Cologne this coming Sunday.

18 July 2009

Fixtures for this years Umbro Cup have been announced with Village FC being drawn in the Umbro Corporate Cup Group 1

9 March 2009

Village FC will once again be entering a team into this summers Umbro International Cup.

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5 March 2009

Following our recent 2-1 quarter final win against Stonewall II in the GFSN Cup, the date for the semi final fixture against GFC Bournemouth has been confirmed.

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15 January 2009

This weekends postponed fixture on 18th January vs Macabbi will be replaced with a training session followed by a team photograph at Eastlands, the home of Manchester City FC

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25 November 2008

It's camper than Christmas, yes folks it's time to pack your 'kiss me quick' hats, this years VMFC Xmas Night out has been awarded to the city of.....Blackpool!

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13 November 2008

Our GFSN team will face Stonewall FC's 3rd team in the Quarter Final of the GFSN Cup.

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3 November 2008

Village FC have drawn a home fixture in the Quarter final of the GFSN Cup against either Stonewall or Newcastle

23 October 2008

We are delighted to announce our Player of the Month award will be sponsored by Becks Vier.

16 October 2008

What a night! There were plenty of stories, many cannot be printed, but everyone had a great time on our first Canal Street Pub Crawl last weekend.

24 September 2008

Had a tough week at work? why not join us for the 1st Village FC Pub Crawl starting at 7.30pm in Taurus Bar on Friday 10th October!

26 August 2008

Village FC faced the crowds in Manchester who were out in numbers again to watch this years Big Weekend Manchester Pride Parade through the city on Saturday.

11 August 2008

Village Manchester FC have just returned from the 2008 EuroGames in Barcelona.

28 February 2008

Village Manchester FC reaches the GNL Cup Final and a chance of winning their 3rd trophy in 3 seasons after their 4-1 victory against London Falcons FC.

10 January 2008

VMFC have teamed up with the Joint Health Unit at Manchester City Council to help promote a healthy approach to growing older.

12 November 2007

The club would like to wish Gavin Crosby a speedy recovery from his injury which he sustained in the recent GFSN fixture.

2 October 2007

Village Manchester FC's Stu Johnson wins the IGLFA World Championships' Golden Boot award.

21 September 2007

Village Manchester FC are to compete in the 2007 IGLFA World Cup in Buenos Aires, Argentina

1 July 2007

Village Manchester FC win the 2007 London Pride 5 a side tournament.

10 May 2007

Village Manchester FC have been crowned Manchester Accountants League Champions.

26 April 2007

Six players from VMFC will be taking on the legendary TV quiz goliaths, The Eggheads.

4 April 2007

VMFC will be competing in the 2007 IGLFA World Cup being held in Buenos Aires, Argentina in September.

4 January 2007

The club would like to announce the completion of negotiations for a 3 year sponsorship deal with one of the world's fastest growing personals sites for gay men

12 October 2006

VMFC will be supporting initiatives to mark World AIDS Day on December 1st.

12 August 2006

VMFC are once again hosting this year's PrideGames 5-a-side football tournament