Haddington Athletic

Nineteen the number to watch out for in tomorrow's South Challenge Cup third round draw 👇

HI HI'S LOTTERY NUMBERS

Drawn last night at The Tyneside Tavern - NO matching entry.

Prize next week is £1000, draw at The Victoria Inn.

📅 SAVE THE DATE!

🎤 SPEAKERS DAY 🎤

📆 Sunday 8th November
⏰ 2:00pm
📍 Haddington Bowling Club

More details to follow ☺️

🏆⚽️ only a few seats left! 🚌🇱🇻

October Camp

Our October Camp this year will be between 12th-16th October ⚽️

It’s £50 for the week. Age 5-12 years.

Boys Camp 9-12pm

Girls Camp 1-4pm

To secure a place please email the following email address confirming players name, age, contact number and if child has any medical conditions :-

[email protected]

ALI SIMPSON - 200 NOT OUT!

Saturday's cup tie at Lanark saw our longest serving player Ali Simpson join the ranks of those relatively few players in the near nine decade history of Haddington Athletic - certain all with the club at heart join us in congratulating the big man on a fantastic achievement, all the more so given injury kept him sidelined for the entire 2025-26 campaign and a good chunk of 2024-25 too.

Ali's into his ninth season at Millfield now, having made his competitive debut as a trialist in our very first senior contest at Coldstream on 28 July 2018 when we ran out 5-3 winners in a sectional League Cup tie. He signed a deal days later and has been a tremendous Hi Hi's servant ever since - only six others have passed the 200 mark since the turn of the millennium. Prior to his joining at age 25 Ali had focused for a time on his golf, at which he excelled having grown up in Dirleton close to some of the best courses around - he'd played amateur football for North Berwick and had a season apiece at Ormiston Primrose and Hawick Royal Albert.

In his time at the club Ali has performed ably in a variety of roles, settling in recent times in central midfield - aged 33 now he looks to have overcome his injury troubles, to the point he was unlucky not to pick up a Man Of The Match award on his two hundredth outing at Lanark. Hopefully he'll line up in Hi Hi's colours on many more occasions to come!

Rundown below of Ali's 200 games - bear in mind we'd a curtailed schedule across 2020 and 2021 during Covid19 times; number of games the team played are in brackets.

2018-19 26 games 3 goals (37)
2019-20 21 + 3 sub 4 goals (28)
2020-21 6 + 7 sub 1 goal (13)
2021-22 35 + 6 sub 2 goals (47)
2022-23 31 + 1 sub 3 goals (38)
2023-24 34 + 1 sub 0 goals (41)
2024-25 17 + 6 sub 0 goals (37)
2025-26 0 games (41)
2026-27 2 + 4 sub 0 goals (9)

TOTAL 172 + 28 sub 13 goals

SOUTH CHALLENGE CUP ROUND THREE

The draw for the competition's thirty two third round ties will take place at 7pm this coming Thursday night - watch it live if you wish on the SCC YouTube channel. Almost one third of potential opponents haven't faced us before.

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SATURDAY'S MAN OF THE MATCH

All who played in the pleasing 5-1 South Challenge Cup win at Lanark United contributed very positively, however committee members' MotM nominations were shared between just two players - there's another post coming up later in which the focus will be on the man missing out narrowly, meantime though it's a pleasure to advise of Cammy Graham's first Hi Hi's MotM recognition just a few weeks on from his transfer from St Andrews United.

In his short time at the club to date Cammy's football ability has been clearly seen - he hit the winning goal against Blackburn United on his first start on 1 August, and besides coming close to scoring again on several occasions has played his part in the team's generally good form. It was the majority view that he'd his best game to date at Lanark - his pace, probing runs and general game intelligence gave the opposition plenty to think about.

Well done Cammy, more MotMs to come in time no doubt! 👏👏👏