Victoria Park Panthers

01/08/2024

Post-Season Confirmed!

We’ll take to the field on Saturday 10th August to fight for a place back in the Premiership next season. Facing off against familiar opposition in London Spark and London Flash and the unknown entity of Waveney Wolves. The round robin style tournament will see the two best teams in the Prem for the 2025 season.

A little over a month later we’re heading to Manchester on 15th September to face off for the Division 1 title as 9th seed. Kicking off against Exeter Falcons in the wildcard round with Bucks Wolves, West Lancashire Serpents, Sheffield Giants Blue and Border City Centurions waiting for the wildcard winners in the round of 8.

What are your predictions for play-ins and the Division 1 championships? Let us know in the comments.

09/12/2023

Congratulations to our very own Matt Turner being named in the 1st and 15 Podcast Team Of The Season 🏆

Always a threat from centre, Matt hauled an impressive 24 Touchdowns, 16 XP1 and 1 XP2 in the 2023 campaign 🏈

Check out 1st and 15 to see the rest of the TOTS lineup.

Team Of The Season
BAFA Flag Premier Offence
Matt Turner of the Victoria Park Panthers
24 receiving touchdowns, 1 XP and 16 XP2

20/08/2023

Huge congratulations to the GB Women. Champions of Europe, beating Spain in a thrilling final.

Congrats also to the GB men’s team who finished 6th.

They did it.

GB Women, Champions of Europe.
Congratulations to all the players, staff and coaches. You’ve inspired a nation.

01/08/2023

Last week we were in action again in our second set of cross conference games of the season, facing off against the Cowen Cougars, Coventry Phoenix and Cheltenham Neptunes.

Overall a good day at the office, finishing 2-1 on the day in tricky conditions and with injuries impacting the gameday squad. These results set up an exciting final gameday on 12th August with the return fixtures against Aylesbury Vale Spartans and London Flash.

Big thanks to the Aylesbury Vale Spartans for hosting.

Stats from the day:

51-7 Win vs Cowen Cougars
Sam Wry: 8 TD pass, 3 1XP pass
John Holmes: 1 TD, 1 Int
Lee Andrews: 3 TD, 2 1XP
Matt Turner: 3 TD, 1 1XP, 1 Int
Pierre Grados: 1 TD
Mark Streather: 1 Int

34-27 Loss vs Coventry Phoenix
Sam Wry: 4 TD pass, 3 1XP pass
Matt Turner: 4 TD
John Holmes: 2 1XP
Pierre Grados: 1 1XP
Lee Andrews: 1 Int
Mark Streather: 1 Int

26-25 Win vs Cheltenham Neptunes
Sam Wry: 4 TD pass, 2 1XP pass
Lee Andrews: 1 TD
Matt Turner: 1 TD, 1 Int
Pierre Grados: 2 TD, 1 1XP
Mark Streather: 1 1XP

If you’re interested in joining, or just want to find out more about Flag Football, get in touch!

26/06/2023

It was back to conference duties at the weekend for the Panthers as we traveled to the other side of London to play Aylesbury Vale Spartans and London Flash

Two strong showings from the Panthers rewarded us this week with two wins from two!

Aylesbury Vale Spartans American Football Team 13 - VPP 39
Matt Turner 3x TD, 1 XP
Lee Andrews 1 TD, 1 XP
Pierre Grados 1 TD, 1 Sack
Alex Gillespie 1TD
Charlie Douglas 1 XP
John Holmes 1 INT

VPP 33 - 27 London Flash
Matt Turner 4x TD ,1 2XP
Pierre Grados 1 TD
Alex Gillespie 1 XP
Peter Coppenhall 1 INT

Our next training session will be at Victoria Park on Tuesday 27/06, 6:15pm as we look to continue the momentum after our best game day so far this season!

11/06/2023

And that wraps up another great weekend at big bowl!

Panthers went 4 - 4 across the weekend finishing in 37th place!
Thanks to all the players who helped fill out our squad and an extra congratulations to Kate bruinvels who was also playing with sacks in the city in the womans bracket who took home the championship!!

Looking forward to doing it all over again! 🏈

19/05/2023

In preperation for our first set of cross conference games on the 27th we will be training again on Sunday 11-1pm at Victoria park

All new comers welcome! If interested head down to Victoria park this Sunday or message the page for more details! 🏈

17/04/2023

With the lighter nights now creeping in the panthers will be adding some midweek training sesssions starting tomorrow 18/04 6-8pm

We are always looking for new members so if you’re interested in playing some flag football feel free to join us at Victoria park or message the page for additional details

16/04/2023

Tough Day at the office as we started our season this weekend with hosting duties

A tough Opening game against a fellow london team and reigning champs London Smoke and a game against newly promoted Reading Devils where we could have done better made for a difficult opening day. As always good to be back playing and plenty to improve on, we go again!

London Smoke 74 - 20 VPP

Sam Wright - threw for 3 TDs and 2 1XPs
Matt Turner - 2 RecTD, 1XP
Charlie Douglas - 1 RecTD
Pete Coppenhall - 1XP

VPP 32 - 63 Reading Devils

Sam Wright - threw for 4 TDs and 2 1Xps
Matt Turner - 1XP
Charlie Douglas - 2 RecTD
Lee Andrews - 2 RecTD
Pete Coppenhall - 1Xp
Josh Amis - Pick 6
Joe Mcilwaine - 1 INT

06/04/2023

With the 2023 season underway for us next week we are training tomorrow Friday 06/04 at Victoria park 12-2pm

Anyone interested in playing flag or wants to know more is welcome to the session and can message the page for details about future training/events