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We are pleased to announce that Marc Nash has been appointed permanent manager of Whitley Bay Football Club. Marc brings with him Anthony Woodhouse as his assistant and Chris Moore as coach. The trio have been in charge of the team for the past three games, achieving two wins and a draw in that time.…

Whitley are back at Hillheads tonight for their first home game in four weeks when they face Bedlington Terriers in the 2nd Round of the Brooks Mileson Memorial League Cup. Bedlington, who were relegated to Division Two at the end of last season, are now managed by former Bay boss Paddy Atkinson, who has turned…

Whitley Bay FC are playing host to a Police National Cup tie at Hillheads next Tuesday evening, 8th November. Northumbria Police are playing North Yorkshire Police in the second leg of the tie, having won the first leg 5-0 in Yorkshire. Kick off is at 7.30pm and admission is free. Refreshments will be on sale and…

Whitley Bay FC have parted company with manager Ian Chandler by mutual consent. The Club would like to offer their sincere thanks to Ian for his efforts during this, his second spell as manager, and wish him well for the future. Ian has a long and extremely distinguished record of service to Whitley Bay Football…

Whitley have today signed Kyle Patton, the younger brother of Callum, from Durham City.  Kyle is a striker and has scored ten goals in 16 appearances for the Second Division side this season. He will be available for all Whitley’s games including the Northumberland Senior Cup and Northern League Cup.

Whitley are at home for the third time in a week when Newton Aycliffe are the visitors to Hillheads this evening. Fourth top Aycliffe are likely to provide a stern test for a Bay side boosted by a narrow 2-1 victory over lowly Washington on Saturday. Angelos Eleftheriadis is suspended while Josh Nearney is doubtful following the…

Whitley are at home again this afternoon when Washington are the visitors to Hillheads. It is a game that Whitley will be determined to win to help put some recent poor results behind them and although Washington are struggling fourth from bottom of the table, nothing can be taken for granted as Chester-le-Street proved on Tuesday evening. When the…

We would like to apologise for the problems with the website over the past two days. Perhaps it has been suffering from shock caused by the recent bad results ! Seriously though, we have been working hard to rectify the situation, which has been diagnosed as server error. Although the website is now back online for most users, there are features…

We have just signed Angelos Eleftheriadis, a 25 year old Greek defender who has played professionally for SV Wilhelmshaven in Germany and Omonia Aradippou in Cyprus. Angelos has come to the UK to study at Newcastle University and it is hoped that he will be available to play tomorrow against South Shields.    

Club statistician Lynn Bone has revealed that Whitley’s 5-1 victory over Ryhope CW was their biggest ever home win on the first day of a League season. 44 years ago on the opening day of the 1972/73 season they won 5-1 at West Auckland but the only times they exceeded that victory margin came in the Northern Alliance…