CLUB HISTORY & BACKGROUND

Southend United are one of Football Aid's latest signings, having made their debut in our 2009 season. The inaugural match at Roots Hall featured Manager Steve Tilson and Assistant Paul Brush and will go down as one of our most exciting yet, finishing in a 6-6 draw and only being decided by a sudden death penalty taken by the Manager himself! It also featured an appearance by super fan David Marsh, amazingly making his 100th appearance in a Football Aid match. Perhaps fittingly he Captained the Home team to victory, scoring his penalty in the shoot-out in the process. Our return match in 2010 also featured Steve Tilson and this time he brought along club Goalkeeping coach Lee Turner to play in the Away team, Tilson again emerged victorious, this time 5-0 in normal time!

2010 POST EVENT UPDATE

This year’s event at Roots Hall was a huge success, with both teams doing themselves proud in front of their enthusiastic supporters. We'd like to send a massive thank you to club Manager Steve Tilson and club GK coach Lee Turner for their fantastic support on the day. For those of you interested there will be a full match report available in our Match Reports section soon.

POSITION AVAILABILITY FOR 2011

We're still waiting for the club to confirm their participation this season, however all going well we would hope to be able to make positions available for our 2011 match soon. To be the first to be notified when we launch positions remember to Register on the website. Also remember to keep an eye on our News & Match Reports section for breaking news of all our latest events.

Read our Bidding story on the official Southend Utd website here