Distributed by Alfreton Town FC on Wednesday, August 9, 2023

It’s been another busy week for Alfreton Town FC as the 23/24 National League North season kicked off.

Opening day

Alfreton suffered opening day defeat to South Shields. Falling to a 3-1 defeat on Tyneside.

Often boss Billy Heath will have been boosted by the returning Ryan Taylor playing a full 90 minutes, however [suffered] the loss of captain Dwayne Wiley to a straight red card in the dying embers of the game.

Alfreton could potentially have Kenny Digie back this weekend after a slight groin injury. Adam Lund could also return this weekend after missing all of pre-season due to surgery.

Finally, Danny Preston is looking at a return to action in September.

Signings

At the end of last week, Alfreton Town announced the signings of Anthony Dwyer, Kelan Swales, Will Pollard, Jaz Goundry and Billy Fewster.

Billy featured in our opening day defeat to South Shields, setting up Shaun Brisley for our only goal of the game.

Tickets

Tickets for our August fixtures are available now thanks to our ticketing partner Ticketpass.

Tickets for this weekend’s game with Southport are available here.

We’re also at home next Tuesday night, August 15, as we welcome Peterborough Sports to the Impact. Tickets can be found here.

Finally, our fixture at home to Darlington on August 26 is segregated and tickets for that fixture can be found here.

Scunthorpe United

Following lengthy consultations, [we] can also confirm that our fixture with Scunthorpe United on September 2 is also segregated.

We have allocated the visitors 2,000 tickets.

Tickets for this fixture can be purchased here.

Player sponsorship

We are in the process of finalising player sponsorship for the 23/24 season with more information regarding this expected to come in the coming days.

ATFC Radio

ATFC Radio returned to competitive action with over 400 unique listeners on Saturday afternoon, taking overall listeners to well over 5,000 since we launched our commentary service back in April 2023.

Join Kian Ward live from the Impact Arena this Saturday from 2.50pm here.

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