ch
being only big enough for 7-8 a side, soon became too small to cater for the
huge numbers that started to turn out. 1991-1992 season
Anjum Khan Fahim
Shah
Minesh
Parmar and Zulfi
Ali were all student's
at East Ham college, Played football regularly at lunch time at the
KKensington pitch, which is
now a Dr’s surgery.
The
pitch
being only big enough for 7-8 a side, soon became too small to cater for the
huge numbers that started to turn out.
3. Started to use Wansted flats, as it already had a pitch marked out and goals up and was available for free.
4. From playing at Wansted Flats, we ended up playing minish’s-* cousins team, who then were known as the Ilford team and later joined the Asian Football League as Boca Juniors.
5. The Ilford team knew baalams boys, later became Aztec, who were also from Ilford and they knew the North London Team(Kishor and Alum) – They later went on to become Real Madras
So the season progressed, with the teams playing each other on an adhoc basis, keeping a mental score, of who had won and how many times.
1992-1993 – The First Asian League
1. Player/Manager Zulfi Ali – Suraj Basmati Asian Football League
2. Club Captain Fahim Shah, Lifted the League Trophy on 18th July 1993.
3.
The then team was – Shiraz Malik,
Zulfi Ali, Inthab Ahmed, Minesh Parmar, Asad Jalil, Anjum
Khan, Fahim Shah, Khalil Daleel, Shabaz Sikander, Soyfur Rehman, Zabir Bashir,
Mamoon Sidiq, Zabir Patel, Waqar Ahmed
4. Top Goal scorers and club Forwards Anjum Khan and Shabaz Sikander, notched 32 goals between them
5. Alum and Kishor from Real MAdras, Amjad from Santos, Aftab from Redstar and Zulfi from Ahle Sunnah(now London APSA) became good friends and apart from playing football, also socialised externally. From their social gatherings, an idea of their very own Asian league was formed.
6. There were plenty of discussions about joining existing leagues, but as the players and organisers were very young and worried about the financial implications, paying for a pitch, paying for kits, goal nets, flags etc.
7.
They decided to make their own
league, use places like wanstead flats, hackney marshes, leyton Marsh and
Mill Hill Park as their home grounds.
8. The birth of the Suraj Basmati Asian Football League came from a contact Zulfi Ali made with Chand Basmati Rice, in order to obtain sponsorship for his Club. The owners also had other companies and were willing to sponsor the League.
9. The first ever Asian football league consisted of Ahle Sunnah, Walthanmstow Redstar, Santos, Wandsworth, kings, Real Madras, Boca Juniors, Aztec and Duke of Edingburgh. Note duke of Edingburgh and Kings were white boy teams, we didn’t mind mixing, just didn’t want the financial burdens of playing mainstream football.
10. Kits were not compulsory, some teams had em some didn’t. One agreed person would ref from the home team. Games were always played in the afternoon, when no park keepers were about, sometimes park keepers were on site, but turned a blind eye as they saw the kids in rags, trying to play ball.
11. Photo of apsa in red gear.
12. Ahle Sunnah(London APSA) won the league by 8 clear points, without losing a single game –
1993-1994
1. Ahle Sunnah – runners up. Suraj basmati Asian Football League
2. Player Manager Zulfi Ali
3.
Captain Fahim Shah
4. The then team was – Shiraz Zulfi ali, inthab ahmed, Asad Jalil, minesh parmar, anjum khan, fahim shah, Khalil Daleel, Danny Marchington , Shabaz Sikander, Soyfur Rehman, Zabir Bashir, mamoon sidiq, Zabir Patel, Unsal Kerrai, Mark Khan,
5. The Team notched a phenomenal 109 goals that season – what do you expect without referees.
6. Top Goal scorers, Unsul Kerrai and Shabaz Sikander, scored 63 goals between them
7. Knocked out of the Semis by Redstar 3-2 , where Nisar’s dad came on to fight Khalil with cricket Bat.
8.
The happy times were over, without
proper referees and without kits, the League was managed well in that first year
without much incident
9. 1993 proved to be a lot more difficult as the lack of experience in running such an organisation shone through.
10. More Teams had joined, the league now consisted of 12 teams, Red Star , Ahle Sunnah Upton park, Santos, Aztec, Duke OF Edingburgh, Boca Juniors, New Ventus, S.A.S, Real Madras, Kings and Gapelle
11. Gapelle left after a bust up with Santos 6 games into the season. The Gapelle Manager Naseem Saleemi, went on to make his own league(how Typical). The laurentian life Asian league
12. Led by the academically, well accquired, Aftab Ahmed, Redstar won the League 6 points clear of Ahle Sunnah(London APSA)
13. Upton Park won the first and last ever Edenfine cup, Held at the Golfers in Beckton, Which is now an housing estate – PICTURES available.
14. Got a table as well
15. The laurentian life Asian league winners were A Team with Runners up Gapelle.
1994-1995
In July of 1995, the Exec Committee of Suraj Basmati Asian Football League took an important and unselfish decision of merging with the League created by Naseem saleemi. Even though the Suraj Basmait League had more teams than the Laurentian Life League, it was considered better to work together to make a bigger, more competitive and more successful League. Both parties had the same goal of trying to progress Asian football, synergy took place and Eastern Eye were back down to promoting the one Asian Football League. But with two divisions totaling 28 teams
1. Ahle Sunnah(London APSA) came fifth in the Laurentian Life Asian Football League
2. Manager Zulfi Ali
3. Captain Fahim Shah
4. Fahim Shah, Inthab ahmed, minesh parmar, anjum khan, Khalil Daleel, Shabaz Sikander, Soyfur Rehman, Zabir Bashir, mamoon sidiq, Zabir Patel, Unsal Kerrai, Imran Khan, Shabaz Khan, Asad Jalil,
5. Top Goal Scorer Unsal Kerrai, 20 goals.
1995/1996
Ahle Sunnah(London APSA) Runners Up
1. Player/Manager Anjum Khan
2. Captain Fahim Shah
3. Inthab ahmed, minesh parmar, anjum khan, Khalil Daleel, Shabaz Sikander, Soyfur Rehman, Zulfi Ali, Zabir Bashir, mamoon sidiq, Zabir Patel, Unsal Kerrai, Imran Khan, Asad Jalil, Shabaz Khan, Urfat Hussain
1996/97
Ahle Sunnah(London APSA) 5th
1. Player/Manager Anjum Khan
2. Captain Fahim Shah
3. Inthab ahmed, anjum khan, Khalil Daleel, Shabaz Sikander, Soyfur Rehman, Zabir Bashir, mamoon sidiq, Zabir Patel, Rassel Khan, Unsal Kerrai, Imran Khan, Asad Jalil, Urfat Hussain,
4. Shabaz Sikander – League Golden Boot, 23 Goals
1997/1998
Ahle Sunnah(London APSA) Runners Up – Asian Football League Runners Up
1.
Manager Zulfi Ali
2. Captain Urfat Hussain
The then Team - Imran Khan, Inthab ahmed, Adil Khan, Jan Khodabaksh, Khalil Daleel, Zabir Bashir, Zabir Patel, Rassell Khan, Farakh Khan, Yasin Chanawala, Ketan patel, Faisal Qereshi, Asim Khan, Shakil Muthi, Patrique Nkenda, Jamie O’donnell.
3. League Players Player of the Year – Zabir Bashir –
4. Club Top Goal Scorer – Zabir Bashir – 26 goals
5. Keeper of the Year Imran Khani
6. An emphatic Season with a real make shift team and more than half the original squad leaving at the end of last season. A truly make or break season for Ahle Sunnah, who would probably have lost the few top quality players they had, if any less had been achieved.
1998/1999
Ahle Sunnah(London APSA) – Third
Manager Zulfi Ali
Captain Urfat Hussain
Imran Khan, Inthab ahmed, Adil Khan, Asim Chodhury, Khalil Daleel, Zabir Bashir, Yunus Manjra, Rassell Amar Kahan, Khan, Farakh Khan, Yasin Chanawala, Faisal Qereshi, Jamie O’Sullivan, Asim Khan, Shakil Muthi, Naeem Patel, Patrique Nkenda
Keeper of the Year Imran Khan
1999/2000
PAKISTAN TOUR (right)
Ahle Sunnah, Wanstead Wanderers and
Redstar were all involved in sending pla
yers
to Pakistan via APSA a sports organisation who was trying to promote football
amongst primarily the Pakistani Community. Their aim was to take British born
Pakistanis, to their country of origin and at the same time to promote the game.
This proved to be t
he incubation period
for London APSA. The two Ahle Sunnah Managers Anjum and Zulfi, spent many a
night together in hotels and on coaches, at dinners and night clubs and
formulated an exquisite plan to take Ahle Sunnah to new heights.
Immediately on return to England, they began gathering the players, enough to accommodate two teams. They formed another team for the Club and changed the name to APSA, LONDON APSA. A great friendship and mutual respect had been developed with the orgganisors of the Pakistan trip and it was felt that adopting their name and helping them to carry out work in London will be a positive partnership. Alas that was not to be as the organisors of the Pakistan trip folded the organisation soon after the return journey.
London APSA embarked on a journey to
Manches
ter pre-season for the UMBRO INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT. (above
Manager Zulfi Ali
Captain Fahim Shah
Team - Imran Khan, Asif Patel, Fahim Shah, Urfat Hussain, Inthab Ahmed, Shabaz Sikander, Amer Khan,
Arfan Khan, Imran Khan, Abid Khan, Anjum Khan, Yunus Manjra, Shaidy,
London APSA Saturdays – Essex Busines Houses League – Premiership
Manager Zulfi Ali
Captain Fahim Shah
Imran Khan, Nadeem Myring,
Anjum Khan,
Urfat Hussain, Fahim Shah, Inthab Ahmed, Naeem Patel, Arfan Khan, Yunus Manjra,
Barinder Thiara, Imran Khan big. Zabeer khan, Rassel Khan, Furkan Anwar, Iftab
Ahmed, Bobby Randwa, Abdul Wadood, Asim Choudhury, patrique Nkenda, Waqar Ahmed
London APSA Sundays – Asian Football League - Premiership
Manager Anjum Khan
Captain Urfat Hussain
Imran Khan, Amjad Bashir, Urfat Hussain, Fahim Shah, Saydul Rehman, Ketan Patel, Arfan Khan, Naem Patel, Barinder Thiara, Imran Khan big. Zabeer khan, Rassel Khan, Furkan Anwar, Iftab Ahmed, Asim Choudhury, patrique Nkenda.
September 2000
APSA travel to Glasgow on invite to compete in the UK ASIAN Championships.
Manager: Zulfi Ali
Assistant - Ndeem Myring, Naem Khan
Captain: Fahim Shah
Imran Khan, Anjum Khan,
Urfat Hussain, Fahim Shah, Amjid Bashir, Naeem Patel, Arfan Khan, Yunus Manjra,
Barinder Thiara, Zabeer khan, Rassel Khan, Furkan Anwar, Iftab
Ahmed, Bobby Randwa, Abdul Wadood, Asim Choudhury, Waqar Ahmed
,
Asif Shabbir
MUSLIM NEWS ARTICLE ...click below
http://www.webstar.co.uk/~musnews/paper/index.php?article=466
2000/2001
London APSA Saturdays – Essex Busines
Houses League – Intermediate Division
Manager Anjum Khan
Captain Fahim Shah
Imran Khan, Nadeem Myring, Anjum Khan, Urfat Hussain, Fahim Shah, Inthab Ahmed, Mohammed Dakri, Naeem Patel, Arfan Khan, Yunus Manjra, Barinder Thiara, Imran Khan big. Zabeer khan, Rassel Khan, Furkan Anwar, Iftab Ahmed, Asif Shabbir, Majid Hussain, Abdul Wadood, Asim Choudhury, patrique Nkenda, Waqar Ahmed
London APSA Sundays – Asian Football League - Premiership - League and Cup Champions
Manager: Fahim Shah
Captain Urfat Hussain
Imran Khan, Amjad Bashir, Urfat Hussain, Fahim Shah, Saydul Rehman, Ketan Patel, Arfan Khan, Naem Patel, Barinder Thiara, Imran Khan big. Zabeer khan, Rassel Khan, Furkan Anwar, Iftab Ahmed, Asim Choudhury, patrique Nkenda, Sultan Miah, Mohammed Dakri
Umbro International Tournament - Champions -
Manager: Fahim Shah
Inner City World Cup 2000 - Runners Up
Manager: Anjum Khan
Mulsim News Article..... click here
2002
Inner City World Cup Champions
Manager: Zulfi Ali
See BBC Link - click here
2003
BFATtournament Champions
Manager: Zakir Hussain
2004
2005
Read more about APSA in Newham
Read about APSA in the UK ASIAN Tournament and see some of the pictures here>>
APSA FIRST ASIAN FOOTBALL CLUB TO PLAY IN THE FA CUP !!!!!!!!
Goodbye John >>
2006
UK Asian Cup - CHELSEA TOURNAMENT -
APSA so close to making it two in two years - A resilient London Tigers came from 1-0 down to make it 1-1 at full time and then
win 3-1 on penalties. FULL report click here >>
Manager JAMI AHMED leads IMPERIAL ESTATES SPONSORED
APSA Reserves to a VICTORY
in the ILFORD and DISTRICT LEAGUE CUP FINAL
July 2006
THE NEW MANAGER IS BOB RITCHIE
CLICK HERE >> for Stadium pics
NEW MATCH PROGRAM COVER >>
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