Latest Yeovil Town News (Page 2)

Yeovil Town have announced the signing of Bristol Rovers defender Dan Ellison on a permanent deal until the end of the 2026/27 season.

Ellison, who has spent time at National League South side Chippenham Town this season, joins Richard Dryden’s side ahead of the game against Carlisle on Saturday with Bristol Rovers describing the deal as “for a fee determined by performance-based incentives.”

It is actually welcome BACK to Huish Park for Dan who was part of the Yeovil Town Community Sports Trust from Under-7s to Under-16s in 2021.

Having begun in the Trust’s development centre in Warminster, he graduated to the Advanced Development Centre under the guidance of coach Bob Thomas and played for its Junior Premier League sides before going on to forge a career at Chippenham and then Rovers.

A young Dan Ellison in the Yeovil Town Community Sports Trust.

A FA Trophy winner with Aldershot whilst Dryden was there, he signed for the Gas in the summer of 2024.

He played for Rovers in the pre-season friendly against the Glovers as part of the “Match for Marcus”.

Ellison will wear the number 15 shirt at Huish Park, 

Welcome to Somerset, Dan!

Dan Ellison tracks Jevani Brown
Pic C/O Gary Brown

Young midfielder Max Jolliffe has joined Yeovil Town on loan until the end of the season from League Two side Colchester United.

The 20-year-old was recalled from a loan spell at Isthmian League Premier Division side Billericay Town where he has been since the end of September.

He has appeared five times during that spell and received praise from manager Danny Scopes for his “energy” in the midfield.

Jolliffe made his EFL debut with his parent club in March when he appeared as a late substitute and followed that up with another late appearance against Gillingham, having got a professional contract with the Essex club in the summer of 2024.

He is expected to be available for tomorrow’s visit from Carlisle United at Huish Park.

William Davies is our referee this Saturday when Yeovil Town welcome Carlisle United to Huish Park.

Will refereed us twice last year, a 2-2 draw with Southend United and a 3-1 win over Maidenhead United.

Both games appear to have passed without so much as a grumble toward the officials, which is nice.

In fact, that 2-2 draw with the Shrimpers saw just one yellow card issued, although Mr Jarvis and Mr Bernard both had their names taken in that first fixture.

In fact, he’s one of the more lenient officials on the circuit, in 7 games this season across NL, EFL Trophy and Premier League 2, he’s just dipped into the pocket for the yellow 17 times, the red one came out for the first time this season on Tuesday, whatever Jack Fletcher did for Man Utd U21s in the seventh minute must have been worthy.

Ashley Allen and James Tewson have the flags in hand whilst Brandon Scaife is fourth official – he’ll be making sure suspended Mark Hughes doesn’t sneak into the dug out! 

Will Davies (far right) referee

Yeovil Town FC (First Team) v Carlisle United (First Team)
National League – Premier    
Referee: Davis, William
Assistant Referee: Allen, Ashley
Assistant Referee: Tewson, James
Fourth Official: Scaife, Brandon

Jed Ward holds a shot during pre-match warm up.

Yes, alright, I know, I know. Look, let’s just get through this and then properly put it behind us.

Jed Ward has been give your votes for the Gloverscast Man of the Match from the defeat to Rochdale at Spotland.

In an odd quirk, the same three people who made the mythical podium for the loss at Boreham Wood also did here with Harvey Greenslade making an impression from the bench and Kyle Ferguson getting the nod at the back.

DATEOPPONENTRESPONSES1ST
(Votes / Percent)
2ND
(Votes / Percent)
3RD
(Votes / Percent)
August
09.08.2025HARTLEPOOL
(Home, 0-0 draw)
172JED WARD
(52 / 32.4%)

Morgan Williams
(44 / 25.6%)
Jake Wannell
(22 / 12.8%)
16.08.2025FOREST GREEN
(Away, 2-0 loss)
87JED WARD
(39 / 44.8%)

Byron Pendleton
(16 / 18.4%)
Morgan Williams
(11 / 12.6%)
20.08.2025BRACKLEY TOWN
(Home, 2-1 win)
153JED WARD
(89 / 58.2%)

Josh Sims
(23 / 15%)
Tahvon Campbell
(14 / 9.2%)
23.08.2025BRAINTREE TOWN
(Away, 1-0 loss)
71JED WARD
(29 / 40.8%)

Josh Sims
(15 / 21.1%)
James Plant
(7 / 9.9%)
25.08.2025GATESHEAD
(Home, 4-3 loss)
174HARVEY GREENSLADE
(65 / 37.4%)

Junior Morias
(59 / 33.9%)
Josh Sims
(23 / 13.2%)
30.08.2025HALIFAX
(Away, 3-2 loss)
93JOSH SIMS
(36 / 38.7%)
Harvey Greenslade
(29 / 31.2%)
Junior Morias
(13 / 14%)
AUGUST PLAYER OF THE MONTH 🥇 JED WARD
(12 PTS, 3 MOTM)

🥈 JOSH SIMS
(8 PTS, 1 MOTM)
🥉 HARVEY GREENSLADE
(5 PTS, 1 MOTM)
02.09.2025SOLIHULL M
(Away, 1-0 win)
98 JUNIOR MORIAS
(28 / 28.3%)
Luke McCormick
(24 / 24.2%)
Jed Ward
(15 / 15.2%)
06.09.2025YORK CITY
(Home, 3-1 loss)
108JOSH SIMS
(48 / 44.4%)
Luke McCormick
(33 / 30.6%)
Jed Ward
(7 / 6.5%)
13.09.2025WOKING
(Home, 1-0 win)
127 LUKE MCCORMICK
(47 / 37%)
Kyle Ferguson
(37 / 29.1%)
Harvey Greenslade
(11 / 8.7%)
20.09.2025TAMWORTH
(Away, 1-0 loss)
62JED WARD
(17 / 27.4%)
Kyle Ferguson
(10 / 16.1%)
Josh Sims
(7 / 11.3%)
24.09.2025ALDERSHOT
(Away, 4-1 win)
94ANDREW OLUWABORI
(36 / 38.3%)

Tahvon Campbell
(25 / 26.6%)
Luke McCormick
(10 / 10.6%)
27.09.2025ALTRINCHAM
(Home, 1-0 win)
154ANDREW OLUWABORI
(51 / 33.1%)

Jed Ward
(37 / 24%)
Morgan Williams
(18 / 11.7%)
30.09.2025SUTTON UTD
(Away 2-1 win)
119JOSH SIMS
(88 / 73.9%)
Andrew Oluwabori
(20 / 16.8%)
Jed Ward
(6 / 5%)
SEPTEMBER PLAYER OF THE MONTH 🥇 ANDREW OLUWABORI
(8 PTS / 2 MOTM)


🥈 JED WARD
(8 PTS / 1 MOTM)
🥉 JOSH SIMS
(7 PTS / 2 MOTM)
04.10.2025BOREHAM WOOD
(Home - 0-3 loss)
87JED WARD
(61 / 70.1%)
Harvey Greenslade
(10 / 11.5%)
Kyle Ferguson
(5 / 5.7%)
11.10.2025HEMEL HEMPSTEAD
(Away 2-1 loss)
44HARVEY GREENSLADE
(18 / 40.9%)
Jed Ward
(10 / 22%)
Byron Pendleton
(6 / 13.6%)
18.10.2025ROCHDALE
(Away 3-0 loss)
49JED WARD
(17 / 34.7%)
Harvey Greenslade
(10 / 20.4%)
Kyle Ferguson
(5 / 10.2%)

Yeovil Town may have exited the Francis Hillier Somerset Men’s Premier Cup on Tuesday night, but there was a little bit of history made.

Young defender, Blake Watts, can now claim to be the youngest ever captain of the Yeovil Town Men’s First Team.

The previous record stood since 2023 when Ollie Haste skippered the side also in the SMPC. 

The County Cup becomes an official first team fixture for all sides outside the EFL. 

Watts was 18 years old and 29 days on Tuesday, beating Haste’s record by almost 10 months. 

The left footed defender has also spent time with Sherborne this season as his football career takes another step forward.

From us all at the Gloverscast, Congratulations Blake! 

Blake Watts. Picture courtesy of Matt Partridge.

Yeovil Town Women returned to action in style on Sunday as they thumped Wells City FC 4-0 following a weekend without football. This was their third league win in a row after beating Appledore and Feniton in previous weeks. Following their exit from the FA Cup at the hands of Winchester a fortnight ago, the Glovers bounced back to form in stunning fashion.

First half goals have defined Yeovil’s league season so far and they continued this trend as Lily McNally gave the Glovers the lead on the ten minute mark.

Moments later the lead was doubled courtesy of Chloe Davenport, who finished calmly to the keeper’s left.

Mid way through the half goalkeeper Emily Hall was called into action for the first time, as she produced a fantastic save to deny the visitors from a set piece.

The Glovers went in at the break two goals to the good.

Yeovil continued to knock on the door in the early stages of the second period, as goalscorers McNally and Davenport attempted to combine – it was the former who did extend the lead further on 47 minutes. 

This pressure was demonstrated further in the 67th minute, as Jodi Cornwall struck the woodwork.

Two minutes later Becky Miles opened her league account, making it 4-0 to the Glovers, as she converted spectacularly direct from her corner.

Yeovil Town Women manager Dave Court spoke after his side’s win:

“I think everyone put on a really enjoyable afternoon in some difficult conditions so credit to everyone involved, it was really testing and I think everyone was a credit to the game. He began.

Dave Court, Manager of Yeovil Town Women
Pic C/O EthMedia

Dave praised his team’s togetherness in tough conditions.

“It’s a dressing room full of people who will work hard for each other, that’s the standard that they set themselves, I think we’ve got a group who do set high standards in terms of effort and commitment to each other, to performing well. We needed that resilience today in really difficult conditions.”

“We’re working calmly each week, we work hard in training to put things in place, so that on difficult days like today the girls have got a structure that they can work within and we hope their quality can shine through and today it did”.

Dave looked ahead to next week’s trip to Appledore.

“We’ll enjoy today, we’ll train twice, we’ll work hard, work on our fitness, which I think is an important thing for us to keep working on. We know Appledore will cause us problems, especially on their home pitch, so again we have to go there, be resilient, be hardworking, do the basics and hopefully our quality will come through, as it has today. However we do expect a very difficult game.”

Sunday’s win meant that the Glovers maintained their perfect record in the league, with three wins out of three. This puts them top of the Shield Services Group South West Regional Womens Football League Division One South.

Yeovil Town Women return to action on Sunday 26th October, as they travel to Appledore 14:00 KO.

 

OppositionKick OffH/ACompetitionScoreLocationScorers
September
07.09.2025Wells City FC14:00AFA Cup1-6Wells City FCDavenport '11, Childs '30, OG '64, McNally '70, Hunt '85 & '92
07.09.2025Wells City FC14:00ALeagueWells City FC
14.09.2025Appledore14:00HLeague6-0YTCST Centre at AlvingtonMcNally '5, '20, '86, Hunt '53, '65, '83
21.09.2025Saltash Utd14:00AFA Cup0-2Saltash UnitedHunt '61, McNally '74
21.09.2025Weston-super-Mare14:00HLeagueYTCST Centre at Alvington
28.09.2025Feniton14:00HLeague2-0YTCST Centre at AlvingtonDavenport '21, Hunt '33
October
05.10.2025Winchester Flyers14:00AFA Cup1-0Winchester FC
05.10.2025W*ymouth14:00ALeagueBob Lucas Stadium
12.10.2025Feniton14:00ALeagueFeniton Playing Fields
19.10.2025Wells City FC14:00HLeague4-0YTCST Centre at AlvingtonMcNally '11, '47, Davenport '19, Miles '69
26.10.2025Appledore 14:00ALeagueMarshford, Appledore
November
02.11.2025Weston-super-Mare 14:00ALeagueOptima Stadium
16.11.2025W*ymouth14:00HLeagueYTCST Centre at Alvington

Yeovil Town have been knocked out of the Francis Hillier Somerset Men’s Premier Cup.

A predominantly young side went down 1-0 to Odd Down of Bath on Tuesday night.

A single Alfie Andrews goal was enough to separate the sides.

Three recognised first team squad members played with James Daly getting 45 minutes on his return from injury, Michee Efete also played the first half.

Matt Gould made his competitive Glovers’ debut between the sticks too. 

Odd Down will find out their 2nd round opponents on Thursday evening.

Striker Ben Wodskou has returned to Birmingham after his loan spell at Huish Park was cut short.

Originally, he was meant to spend the entire 2025/26 season at Huish Park, but has found game time tough to come by in recent weeks, being an unused sub in three of the last four league games and only getting five minutes against Sutton in between.

The number 10 scored one goal, the winner against Brackley to spark some fairly jubilant scenes in the Thatchers Stand.

Go well, Ben.

Wodskou scores! Pic Chris Fox

Yeovil Town midfielder Charlie Cooper has joined National League North Side Hereford United until January 5th.

The 28 year old hasn’t featured for the Glovers since the 2-1 win over Brackley back in August and hasn’t even made a match day squad since the departure of Mark Cooper.

Cooper has made 99 first team appearances for Yeovil Town.

Yeovil Town owner Prabhu Srinivasan interviewed during a visit to Huish Park.

On Friday 15th October, we broadcast a long interview with Nicholas Brayne, Chief Strategy Advisor at Yeovil Town FC, which went on for almost two hours and covered a huge range of topics which we at the Gloverscast felt fans wanted answers on. Since the interview was broadcast, there have been a wide range of opinions (both positive and negative) about some of the things which Nicholas said and  a request for a transcript of the interview to be made available.

You can still (and forever) listen to the interview in here – click HERE is you want to do that – and here the unedited, unfiltered words which Nicholas spoke. However, to try and make it easier to understand and digestible, we have broken this down in to sections which cover the wide range of topics which were discussed.

In this second posting, we bring you Nicholas’ comments on off-the-field matters including the investment under owner Prabhu Srinivasan, the latest on the ownership of land at Huish Park and his thoughts on the club’s community outreach since the takeover.


Investment by the ownership group

I have heard people say a few times ‘why doesn’t Prabhu put money in to the club?’ That one irks me a little bit because we are losing a significant amount of money every year, I know how much money he is pumping in to this club. If anyone does not think it is significant, please turn up at Huish Park and we will talk about investment. The elevation on the budget is sizeable in terms of what he has put forward. That went forward under Danny (Webb), but he obviously did not have time to spend it so we are investing it now, so there is a lot of money going in to this club. The question is are we spending it properly. I know what Halifax’s budget is, I know what Barnet’s budget was last year, I know what people are spending.

  • Energy: I have become an energy expert because of these price rises. We had a five-year locked in contract and we are facing a cliff edge in November, so I have been working to get us a better deal in terms of energy and a better mix. We are looking at a situation where our energy prices are going to double. 
  • Sport England Loan: Under <NAME OF FORMER CHAIRMAN REDACTED>, a loan was taken out with Sport England, but to the best of my knowledge not a single penny has been paid off that loan until last month when we put down £117,000. To try and eat in to that capital, we paid £117,000 off the loan. There are twice a year payments which we pay. There is a payment plan in place for a period of time to take that away. I have to be fair to Sport England and where we are at the moment, we will be paying that off for a considerable amount of time. There are things we would like to do to make that more manageable, but we are facing two very sizeable payments every year that are just shy of £100,000 each, then they peter off.

Now we are dealing with a cocktail of crap, but we knew we were going to have that. We went in to it with our eyes open.

Yeovil Town owner Prabhu Srinivasan interviewed during a visit to Huish Park.
Yeovil Town owner Prabhu Srinivasan.

Q. We know of Prabhu, his wife Bhavna and son Sahil, executive chairman Stuart Robins and yourself, is anyone else involved in ‘the ownership group’?
A.
No, that is everyone. There are no other investors other than Inflection Holdings (the company which Prabhu Srinivasan used to take over the club in May), we are pumping the money in. This is all coming from Prabhu, Bhavna and the family. Most owners value a football club at how much money they have put in over the years and how they want to get that back which is the easiest way of it. Most people know they are pumping money in knowing they are not going to get that money back. You would potentially make money out of promotion to the EFL and perhaps Yeovil returning as a League One club. You can look at cultural factors of football becoming more sustainable, the academic perspective is the appetite for debt is lessening because there are fewer investors coming forward. Whether that is true or not is an interesting debate. So, to answer the question, this is money going in to keep the club going rather than an investment where you are seeking a return.

There is no-one else, there is no-one in the wings. We have not had this conversation, but that is not to say if someone rocked up and said ‘I have got transformative money that could do something amazing for the club’ I am sure we would want to have that conversation. I talk to people all the time who have an interest in football. 99% are there to waste our time, 1% may come and have a meaningful conversation and 0.5% might transact, so it’s a low conversion rate. But we have not had any of those conversations at Huish Park and nor have we introduced anyone like that in to the conversation or sought to have those conversations. I am leaving the opportunity open for future years, but it is not something we have done up until this point.

Q. We have not seen or heard much from Prabhu since he was last in the UK, why have they not been back?
A.
“It is difficult for the family when they want to be there to provide support. Bhavna and Prabhu are mainly in the United Arab Emirates (specifically Dubai) and you have Sahil who is in New York, so it is challenging for them to do this from afar. What prohibits them from being here more is that their visa allows them to do 90 days in the UK and they are now around 55 days each and we have only had the club three or four months. They want to be in the country as much as possible, for example, they are coming over for the Mayor’s Ball (held on Saturday 15th November). They have to look at when something significant is going to happen and leave something in the bank for unforeseen circumstances.”

 

Companies House filing

A little extra context on this point because those supporters not on social media may have missed it, but on October 9th the Companies House listing of Yeovil Town Holdings showing the allotment of £500,000 worth of shares in the business. We asked Nicholas about what it means.

We have a holding company that owns the football club and we are pumping money in through Yeovil Town Holdings Ltd to flow down and meet the challenge of running the football club. The difference in the costs are variable, for example, if we have more home games in a certain month the difference will be less, so what you are retrospectively seeing is the mechanics of the money coming in and how it has been allotted in terms of shareholding in the company as it filters down.

This is an injection of capital coming in. Nick Crittenden (the club accountant) will do a forecast of what we need every month and we will pump the money in and it falls like rain in to the football club. That is how we keep it funded. Football clubs make a significant loss, a fantastic month for us would be writing a cheque for under £200,000 to keep it going, we have been writing cheques north of that for quite some time.

The filing posted to Companies House on 9th October.

Ownership of the land at Huish Park

“If you knew what the council had done in terms of the transaction to keep the football club going, their adaptability with the current group, they have been fantastic. It has always been our extend the terms of the buy-back option, we wanted to push that back to give ourselves a bit of breathing space. The question is ‘why don’t you just buy back the site?’ The truth is when you are looking at a site like that and the amount of money it would cost to buy it back, it is right to put in place an assessment of what you can do with it. It is also important when you consider other partners who may come in and, for example, build a hotel, paddle courts or a wonderful trampoline park! We are working with and have had detailed work done with one particular party about what could be done on the site, and that helps us with where we go with the council and how we then bring Huish Park in to the ownership of the club. If we rushed out and did it overnight, it is no advantage to the club or the ownership group.

Q. Would supporters be consulted on any future development of the site?

A. “There has to be an element of consultation with reality underpinning it. We are open to creative thoughts, but there has to be reality in how we actually operate it. When there is a plan in place we have to have engagement because why would we want something in place where people turn up and say ‘that is just ghastly!’? As a slight caveat, there will have to be a statutory consultation and I don’t people to think their criticisms or support have not been heard because we have run a pseudo consultation, not the official one. So within the parameters of doing things properly within the parameters of planning law, I cannot see why we would not be talking to supporters. You would have extensive consultation, that would be communicated widely, and it is in our interest to run a public event where people can come and see the plans.

“On the site, there will need to be an element of residential development. The reality is to develop that site there are things you are able to do and things you are not able to do. Let us say we want to build a destination there, there would be objections there on a major scale because you are sucking business out of Yeovil town centre. What is needed at the moment is housing, but it doesn’t need to be the whole site. We could put forward a mixed development where you have some residential, maybe a hotel, some kind of leisure development which would make Huish Park a community focus point. There are certain boxes which have to be ticked and at the moment that work is being done and scoped by quite sizeable people who work in that area. We would then have to work with partners because as an ownership we do not know the first thing about building houses, for example.

“Will we see change at the football club? Absolutely. How will that change benefit the club? It will draw capital in to the football club, but the bigger challenge is how does that capital keep benefiting the club by having a residual tail on it? Because it could just come in to the club and it just gets burned because in football we burn money for fun. So we have to think how we do it cleverly, that is the conversation and that is why we extended the buy-back option. Those are the conversations we are having now. Long term sustainability is what we are talking about. For example, if you developed a hotel, there are lots of ways to do it. You could bring in a firm and buy in to that brand and the club runs the hotel as a number of clubs do or you could sell to an investor. This is not as simple as just throwing up a hotel, but there has to be a mixture of things that brings money in to the football club and things that may give us a one-off hit and gives us the money to invest in other things. At the end of this, I need to be able to point at things which have made us more sustainable than when we had this conversation on 15th October 2025.

“What looks like successful ownership? Reuniting the club with the stadium is massive and if we came out of this and we are still in the National League but the club now owns the stadium, that would be frustrating but it does add a pillar of sustainability. These are the real things we feel we can do which is away from sporting jeopardy.”