A very happy new year from Champion Hill. Here’s to success on and off the pitch in 2025! Why not make it a resolution to be more like Merlin, above, cheering on The Hamlet at the Hill!

Over the festive season, the club was proud to support the King’s College Hospital Charity in what has now become an annual tradition, helping to deliver toys to the children’s department, and we’d like to thank you for your generosity and for all the help you give the club year in, year out.

Our Christmas party, hosted by the Supporters’ Trust, also raised funds for our big trip to Hamburg later this year, celebrating the centenary of our friendship with Altona 93. Santa even popped in to deliver a message with predictions of playoffs, promotion pushes and a palpable sense of silverware.

The new calendar kicks straight into action with our men’s team’s trip to Cray Wanderers on New Year’s Day; before our first home game of the year when our men face Bognor Regis Town at Champion Hill on Saturday 4th. The following day on Sunday 5th our women’s team travel to Ashford Town to get going after the holiday break.

On Saturday 11th our men are at home again, hosting Folkestone Invicta at the Hill; while on Sunday 12th our women’s reserves travel to Leatherhead, the scene of many an infamous Hamlet-Tanners clash.

The following weekend our men are on the road to Billericay Town on Saturday 18th, while our women travel to north-west London the next day to face London Bees in the second round of the Capital Women’s Cup. This is the last cup hope of the campaign for our women’s side; as it will be for our men when they face Sutton Common Rovers in the third round of the London Senior Cup. Keep an eye on the club site at dulwichhamletfc.co.uk for the date of that key fixture and all updates. Here’s hoping for a hit, a palpable hit!

The last weekend of the month sees our men back at Champion Hill, hosting Chichester City on Saturday 25th; before our women travel to Norwich on Sunday 26th for their rearranged fixture and one of the standout trips of the season. Away days like these, as well as big games at the Hill, are not to be missed, so etch them in your calendars now.

In fact, mark them on your all-new Hamlet Hounds calendar for 2025, which this year sees a fresh rabble of our favourite four-legged friends, including Merlin, who just can’t get enough of the Hamlet. All profit from the sale of the calendars goes to dog-related charities and like the rest of our mega-container merch it’s produced by our Supporters’ Trust — which unites our community and makes its voice heard. Let’s hear it for the hounds, and up the Hamlet!

Merlin was submitted for Hamlet Hounds 2025 and appeared in October. 

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