A NEW trophy cabinet might be needed at Dringhouses Football Club.

The St Helens Road-based outfit have enjoyed a remarkable season – winning five competitions.

The senior side took the York Minster Engineering Football League premier division title by nine points from Dunnington before then beating their rivals 2-1 to win the York FA Saturday Senior Cup.

The second team scooped the reserve ‘B’ championship, losing just one game when holding off runners-up Riccall United Reserves by five points, while a newly established under-19s side won the York FA U19s League and cup double.

Having kept the club in the premier division after taking over midway through the 2009-10 campaign, first team boss Neil Sanderson built on those sound foundations, while Nick Bissitt was brought in at the start of this season to mastermind the reserves’ successful year. Bissitt also runs the U19 outfit.

Dringhouses president Mick Backhouse said the club’s success had come from a fantastic effort throughout the club.

“We have turned things around,” he said. It has been a club effort – the managers, everyone, and the players both young and senior.

“A club goes through phases where players finish and you lose one or two.

“We had to sit down and bring in a new team and management for both the firsts and the reserves.

“We also started the U19s team with an influx of young lads coming through who will, hopefully, go on to the reserves or first team.

“The reserves have done really well. They were relegated from reserve ‘A’ but won the ‘B’ league at the first time of asking.

“The U19s won their league and beat Knaresborough 5-0 in the cup final.”

Backhouse said this year’s impressive trophy haul was on a par with the 2004-5 campaign where five trophies were won – including a treble for the reserves.

And he has high hopes for next season. “It is nice to be a part of it but now we have won these trophies we have to defend them,” he added. “Now comes the hard part.”