OWN ONE OF OUR UNIQUE ALTONA 93 INSPIRED SHIRTS.
As part of or Easter weekend 'Altona 93' take-over, the men's team played in a one-off shirt, which we are now auctioning to raise fund for our trip to Hamburg in July, when we play Altona 93 to celebrate 100 years since both teams meet in Easter 1925!
Bidding starts at £35 and the auction will end 20:00 Thursday 24 April 2025 and every penny raised will be used to fund the men’s tour of Hamburg in July 2025
Bids can be made here.
Shirts will be available to collect at our final home game on Saturday 26 April from the club shop, during it opening times and then the club bar from 17:00 until 19:00.
In addition, these will also be available for collection at our final women's game on Sunday 27 April. If you are unable to attend this match, alternative arrangements can be made to ensure you get your shirt. If you wish the item to be posted this will be at an additional cost.
Please note that no replicas will be available to buy, and so whoever successfully bids for them will own a unique piece of history.
INTRODUCING OUR 2025 HALL OF FAME ENTRIES
Following the formation of the Dulwich Hamlet History Group we are delighted to announce the first entrants into the Dulwich Hamlet Football Club Hall of Fame.
They are:
Bert Coleman
Edgar Kail
James Kelly
The Lloyd Brothers
Lorraine 'PA' Wilson
You can discover more about each of our entrants by clicking here.
Want to nominate someone to enter the Hall of Fame during the 25/26 season, the rules for nominees are:
1. A maximum of five entries will be added to the Hall of Fame each season.
2. Those recognised must have a significant place in the history of Dulwich Hamlet, as player, administrator or both.
3. Those honoured are recognised solely for their service to Dulwich Hamlet. Achievements elsewhere are not taken into consideration.
4. All players must have been fully registered with Dulwich Hamlet (not on loan etc.)
5. No-one will be considered until five years after they have left the club.
6. A player who retires and becomes an administrator can be recognised, as a player, five years after they retire.
7. The History sub-committee will consider nominations for membership. Their decision is final.
8. Any nominations not accepted in the year of receipt will automatically be re-considered the following season(s).
Altona 93 takeover this Saturday!
This Saturday, to celebrate 100 years since our first meeting, the team will be playing in a special one-off shirt.
These shirts, based on the one worn by the 1924-25 Dulwich Hamlet team that first travelled to Hamburg to play Altona 93 during the Easter break 1925, will be auctioned off after the game. Get your tickets for the match with Canvey Island here.
All the funds raised will be going towards the costs of the men’s teams’ trip to play Altona 93, at Adolf-Jäger-Kampfbahn, on the 12 July 2025.
Fans attending the Quiz Night this evening will have the first opportunity of seeing these shirts in person. Don’t forget the quiz will take place in the club bar and commences from 7:30pm. You can book your space at the quiz right here.
After Saturdays Canvey Island game, there will be DJ’s playing in the upstairs bar and an opportunity to win some great raffle prizes which will include a couple of these special shirts!
We encourage supporters to wear their Altona 93 colours at the game and the Supporters’ Trust will also have a new range of “Freundschaft merchandise on sale with the profits also going towards the cost of taking the team to Hamburg this summer.
Information on how you can bid on one f these shirts will be announced shortly via the club’s media outlets.
MATCH TICKETS:
Get your tickets for our match with Canvey Island this Saturday here.
Hamlet launch Easter Egg fundraiser
Dulwich Hamlet FC is aiming to spreading holiday cheer this Easter by launching a fundraising campaign to provide Easter eggs for families in need within the local community.
Introducing the Dulwich Hamlet History Group
Dulwich Hamlet has always been fortunate in having a group of supporters who not only follow the fortunes of the club on the pitch avidly at home and on away trips but we also have a good number of fans who have a great interest in the history and heritage of this great club and who are always on the lookout for information pertaining to our past and to share this amongst the wider fan base.
It almost goes without saying that an early initiative – the Hamlet Historian – was the brainchild of the late Mishi Morath, who began writing the Hamlet Historian in magazine form in the 1990s, which was later taken on by Jack McInroy both as a magazine and also as a regular blog. Jack, along with Roger Deason and Steve Hunnisett has also produced many booklets on various aspects of the club’s history, such as Jack’s superb works on Hussein Hegazi, “Dulwich Hamlet’s Egyptian King” and Niilo Tammisalo, the latter work in conjunction with Finnish football writer Harri Laine. Roger has written about the club’s First World War history in some depth in two works, “When Shall Their Glory Fade?” and “Quite Wrong To Do So”, as well as some interesting diversions on Hamlet’s near neighbours Southern United and also “Before the Hamlet”, a history of football in Dulwich from the 1870s to the 1890s, which provides useful insight behind other local clubs prior to the formation of the Hamlet in 1893. Steve has brought the wartime history as up to date as possible in his work “For Freedom” about the Club’s Second World War fallen and has also discovered some further players inexplicably omitted from the Club’s war memorial, who have been covered in a Hamlet Historian magazine and also on his own website.
All of these works, whilst having the tacit support of the Club, have essentially been works of private enterprise, with any proceeds from the booklets either going to support the Hamlet Historian magazine or the erstwhile Twelfth Man initiative. Many other supporters and interested parties have supported these enterprises and happily shared research, most notably Ian Colley and Michael Walker, as well as the Football and War Network, a project established by Dr Alex Alexandrou of the University of Wolverhampton which brings together football club historians and military historians with an interest in the game who discuss and disseminate various aspects of the history of football in connection with wartime history.
Now though, exciting news is at hand, with the Club setting up an official History Group, formed from likeminded supporters, who will continue their works but now with the official backing of the Club.
After the life-changing illness to John Lawrence and following approaches from the club to Al Crane, Roger Deason, Steve Hunnisett, Ian Kemp, Richard Watts and Michael Wagg, these supporters have accepted the invitation to become founder members of this group. These supporters all have different areas of knowledge covering both Men’s and Women’s teams and can easily combine their efforts to produce articles for match-day programmes, ensure that important anniversaries are suitably recognised and celebrated, as well as coming up with new initiatives to keep the history and heritage of the club at the forefront for supporters old and new to enjoy.
An early idea which the History Group is eager to push, is the establishment of a “Hall of Fame” to recognise and commemorate significant people from the Club’s past, whether they be players, administrators or perhaps both. Five people will be added each season and nominations can be accepted from anyone who supports, or has an interest in the history of Dulwich Hamlet FC.
The group has established certain criteria for qualification into the Hall of Fame, perhaps most importantly that each individual proposed for membership must have left the club at least five years previously, thus hopefully ensuring that only those who have made a truly memorable contribution to the Club are recognised. We have set the ball rolling for the 2024/25 by nominating five important figures from the Club’s formative years but going forward, we will be establishing a nomination process for next season and beyond.
