Hashtag United F.C.

Hashtag United
Full name Hashtag United Football Club
Short name Hashtag
Founded 2016
Ground Coles Park Stadium, Tottenham
Capacity 2,500 (280 seated)[1]
Chairman Spencer Carmichael-Brown[2]
Manager Jay Devereux
League Eastern Counties League Division One South
Website Club website

Hashtag United Football Club is a football club based in England currently managed by Jay Devereux. Founded in 2016, they gained notability due to recording their matches, making videos around them, and posting them on YouTube to the Spencer FC Channel. They later moved to the Hashtag United YouTube channel. In 2018, they entered the English football league system and currently play in the Eastern Counties League Division One South.

History

Hashtag United Football Club were formed in March 2016 by Spencer Owen, a football YouTuber who went by the name Spencer FC. Spencer had began making YouTube videos in 2013 as a student at the University of Reading. Speaking to the BBC in 2016, Owen said "Creating a football team with games that play out on YouTube has always been a big ambition for me and this year felt like the right time to finally give it a go." The team initially consisted of friends from school and university.[3]

From their foundation, the team primarily played exhibition matches, filmed them, and posted them to their YouTube account. By September 2016, the team's Instagram had over 100,000 followers, their Twitter 41,000, and a 'penalty challenge' uploaded to YouTube was watched by more than one million times. Hashtag played teams including a Comedians XI who they beat 19–1, Google and a Manchester City staff team, with opponents fielding former professional footballers such as Paul Dickov, Graeme Le Saux and Ray Parlour, or celebrities including Omid Djalili. At one point in 2016, the club was close to signing professional footballer Adebayo Akinfenwa.[3] In 2017 the club won the Wembley Cup, a competition that Spencer FC had won in 2015 and 2016.[4]

In 2018 the club joined the English football league system, initially being placed in Division One of the Spartan South Midlands League, before being moved to the Eastern Senior League after appealing that it was more suited to their Essex roots.[5] After joining the pyramid, Spencer Owen stepped down as manager and was replaced by former East Thurrock United assistant manager Jay Devereux.

Ground

After joining the Eastern Counties League, the club began playing at the Coles Park Stadium, groundsharing with Haringey Borough.

Current squad

As of 7 August 2018[6][7]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
England GK Ryan Barker
England GK Andy Cade-Watts
England GK Jamie Jackson
England DF Sam Adams
England DF Jemel Akeem
England DF Rich Beck
England DF Alex Dahnovskyy
England DF Paul Nash
England DF Charlie Pardoe
England DF Marcus Stamp
England DF Scott Willard
Cyprus DF Tom Williams
England MF Seb Carmichael-Brown
England MF Matt Carter
England MF Zac Clarke
England MF Jimmy Curtis
England MF Jack Durkin
No. Position Player
England MF Ricky Evans
England MF Jack Harrison (Captain)
England MF Lee Hursit
England MF Isa Hussein
England MF Wes Tanser
England MF Aaron Thorpe
England MF Farai Tsingano
England FW Ryan Adams (Vice Captain)
England FW Daniel Adjei
England FW Theo Baker
England FW Dan Brown
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines FW Aaron Couch
England FW Maverick Gore
England FW Harry Honesty
England FW Charlie Morley
England FW Neil Richmond

Coaching staff

Position Name
Manager Jay Devereux
Assistant Manager/Player Neil Richmond
Physiotherapist Steve Carmichael-Brown

Honours

  • Wembley Cup
    • Winners 2017

References

  1. ↑ Mike Williams & Tony Williams (2016) Non-League Club Directory 2017, Tony Williams Publications, p453 ISBN 978-1869833695
  2. ↑ Hashtag United Eastern Counties League
  3. 1 2 Bysouth, Alex (6 September 2016). "Hashtag United & the YouTube generation: Football's future?". BBC News. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  4. ↑ Wembley Cup wows thousands of kids as VAR trialled for first time in England Evening Standard, 7 October 2017
  5. ↑ Hashtag United: YouTube team can 'bring new fans' to non-league game BBC Sport, 1 June 2018
  6. ↑ Players Hashtag United F.C.
  7. ↑ Hashtag United FA FullTime

Coordinates: 51°36′20.12″N 0°05′33.97″W / 51.6055889°N 0.0927694°W / 51.6055889; -0.0927694

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