The Club

How It All Began

The Club was born in 1978, when local men Alan Morgan and Colin Maxey gathered together a group of boys of mixed ages, united in the desire to play football. For the first year they played a series of friendlies at Bedford Park, still our main playing venue and, of course, the inspiration for the Club name. The following season saw a team of Under 12s kick off in a local league and the seeds were sown for the strong and far-reaching organisation we are today.

Our Set Up

These days we have teams playing in the Bedfordshire Mini Soccer League, sponsored by Filmergraphics, the Chiltern Youth League and the Milton Keynes and Border Counties Youth Football League. Each side enters its own League Cup competition, and from Under 12, teams have the chance to participate in the County Cup as well. There are also a host of local and regional tournaments that our teams enter. BPR also takes teams of all ages on summer tours, to tournaments all over the UK and there have also been some excellent trips to play in Poland, Holland and Belgium. In 2003 we hosted the first of our own Summer Tournaments, to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Club. It was such a success that this has now become an annual event, and usually takes place over the second weekend of June.