Chelmsford Goalball Club

The Chelmsford Intermediate Friendly 2026!

On Saturday 13th June, Chelmsford Goalball Club hosted its first-ever Intermediate Friendly Tournament!

The aim of the tournament was to support players transitioning from Regional to Intermediate competition ahead of the 2026/27 season. Designed for regional-level players who are on the cusp of Intermediate competition—or who have the potential and ambition to reach that level—the event provided an opportunity to experience Intermediate-style matches in a competitive yet welcoming environment.

We were delighted to welcome six strong teams from across the UK:

* Chelmsford AM
* Cambridge Town
* Cambridge Gown
* Bradford Giants
* Watford Wizards
* Greater Manchester Falcons

The tournament showcased an excellent standard of goalball throughout the day. Every team competed with determination and commitment while demonstrating outstanding sportsmanship, teamwork, and camaraderie both on and off the court.

Each team played two round-robin matches within their pool before progressing to a final placing game to determine their overall tournament position.

Round Robin Fixtures:

Game 1: Pool A – Cambridge Gown 1 vs Chelmsford AM 6

Game 2: Pool B – Watford Wizards 8 vs Cambridge Town 0

Game 3: Pool A – Chelmsford AM 6 vs Greater Manchester Falcons 3

Game 4: Pool B – Cambridge Town 6 vs Bradford Giants 11

Game 5: Pool A – Greater Manchester Falcons 8 vs Cambridge Gown 4

Game 6: Pool B – Bradford Giants 3 vs Watford Wizards 4

Placing Games:

Game 7: Cambridge Gown 1 vs Cambridge Town 8, (5th/6th Play-off)

Game 8: Bradford Giants 7 vs Greater Manchester Falcons 4 (3rd/4th Play-off)

Game 9: Chelmsford AM 4 vs Watford Wizards 5 (1st/2nd Play-off with golden goal finish)

Final Standings

1st: Watford Wizards

2nd: Chelmsford AM

3rd: Bradford Giants

4th: Greater Manchester Falcons

5th: Cambridge Town

6th: Cambridge Gown

Individual Awards:

Player of the Day: Owais Majid (Bradford Giants)

Top Female Goalscorers: Jess Marshall and Orla Fitzgerald (Watford Wizards)

Top Male Goalscorer: George Rampley (Cambridge Town)

The tournament was a fantastic success, and we are incredibly pleased with how the day unfolded. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to all the clubs who attended and helped make the event such a memorable occasion.

Thank you to our Chelmsford Goalball Club members who worked tirelessly to plan, organise, and deliver the tournament. We are also hugely grateful to the many volunteers who supported throughout the day, whether refereeing, goal-line judging, assisting at the scoring table, or supporting players and teams.

We would also like to thank Riverside Leisure Centre for their support in facilitating the event, and Goalball UK for their advice and guidance during the planning process.

Thank you to The Primary Club for their continued support of Chelmsford Goalball Club, which helped make this tournament possible. We would also like to express our gratitude to our friends at Cambridge Dons Goalball Club for kindly lending us their game clock for the day—it was greatly appreciated.

We look forward to building on the success of this year’s event and hope to hold this event again next year!

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Sports Insure Goalball UK Shield 2026!

This weekend, Chelmsford Goalball Club traveled to Nottingham to compete in the Sport’s Insure Goalball UK Shield Tournament.

This was a tough competitions, facing teams from across the UK.

Chelmsford played 4 games total, consisting of 2 round robin games in pool C, a placing game for 5th - 8th place and a final placing game for 7th - 8th place.

Game 1: Chelmsford - 3 vs Greater Manchester Falcons -6

Game 2: Chelmsford - 6 vs West Yorkshire - 5

Game 3: placing game: Chelmsford - 3 vs Watford Wizards - 7

Game 4: Final placing game: Chelmsford - 7 vs Northern Allstars - 5

Chelmsford entered a strong team who have shown great skills, teamwork and determination throughout the day which was reflected in their overall placing of 7th place out of 12 strong teams!!

We are very proud of our players and the standard of play they brought to this tournament.

We would like to thank our 2 coaches on the day for their encouragement, guidance and support. We would like to thank Warren at Cambridge Dons Goalball Club for his support with coaching team Chelmsford.

We would like to thank the staff and volunteers at Goalball UK for their work to organise and facilitate this event.

We would also like to thank The Primary Club for their ongoing support to the club which allows us to continue to train and compete in these events.
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Visually Impaired Baseball Taster Session in Chelmsford!!

On Saturday 2nd May, there will be a Blind Baseball taster session being held at Essex Police Sports Ground, CM2 6DT

The session will run from 12pm-4pm and has been organised by our very own coach, Sean Briscomb and will be run by Great Britain Blind Baseball Coaches

This session is open to anyone over the age of 14.

If you are interested in giving Blind Baseball a go or would simply like to learn more, please contact Sean on 07877 580 474

New Mascot!

Welcome to Chelmsford goalball Clubs new mascot, koni the koala!

Shortened from Marconi, keeping our original radio theme going but also nicknamed cheddars!

Image show a large koala bear plush wearing a purple and yellow Chelmsford goalball jersey number 3 a pair of eye shades on his head elbow pads on arms a bell is worn around the neck sometimes with striped stadium scarf with our club colours with his left paw leaning on top of a goalball 🐨🔵💜💛

Chelmsford Goalball Club would like to say a huge and sincere thank you to The Primary Club who have again generously supported us this year with funding.

This funding will allow us to continue running our club by supporting the facilitation of our regular training sessions for our team and providing sporting/ social opportunity for the visually impaired community in Essex.

We are very appreciative of the support and would like to thank you for your generous funding.

www.primaryclub.org

The Primary Club The cricketers' charity for the blind and partially sighted

What an excellent day for the club 🏆 !! Well done to all our players and coaches for their hard work and dedication!!

If you are interested to learn more about Goalball or would like to get involved to play or volunteer, please contact us at [email protected]