FORMER members of a Selby football team which folded two years ago, have been urged to get in touch for an anniversary reunion.

Kartiers FC won the York & District Football League Third Division in the 1993/94 season, and continued at Selby Town’s ground until the club folded in 2011.

Ian Jennings, who managed the club for 20 years until 2010, said he wanted to bring the original team back together to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the club’s formation.

Ian said: “Someone pointed out to me that 20 years ago we started on an incredible journey which saw the club achieve almost unprecedented success and I thought we could not let that anniversary go by without some kind of reunion.

“It has been great contacting the old players again. That squad from the ’93/94 season mean so much to me because of what they helped to start.

“They were the birth of Kartiers FC.”

A charity match will be held at Selby Town’s ground on Sunday, September 29, with the squad of ’93 taking on a team of former players.

Richard Singh, who played in the pink-kitted club’s first season, said: “It’s great the old players are able to play on the Town’s ground again after all these years, so I would like to thank Ralph Pearse and Selby Town FC.”

Ian said he was “very proud” that the club had raised thousands of pounds for charity over the years, and the reunion game will raise funds for the Meningitis Trust and the James Whale Trust for kidney cancer.

Ian said: “I would like to see as many people down as possible, especially the former players, it would be great to see everyone again.

“Someone recently asked me how the team from 1993 would compete with the current sides in Selby and the York & District Saturday League, and I said we would probably win most games 1-0 as you have to appreciate that some of us are in our late forties, early fifties now.”

To donate, visit uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/1993kfc or to get involved with the project, phone Richard on 07540 979607.