![Cambs Times: Whittlesey Athletic FC switched on their new floodlights for the first time on Wednesday night after securing a grant from the Premier League’s Football Stadia Improvement Fund in July. They marked the occasion with a penalty shootout win over Cherry Hinton in the Cambs Invitation Cup. Picture: RWT PHOTOGRAPHY]( "Cambs Times: Whittlesey Athletic FC switched on their new floodlights for the first time on Wednesday night after securing a grant from the Premier League’s Football Stadia Improvement Fund in July. They marked the occasion with a penalty shootout win over Cherry Hinton in the Cambs Invitation Cup. Picture: RWT PHOTOGRAPHY")
Whittlesey Athletic FC switched on their new floodlights for the first time on Wednesday night after securing a grant from the Premier League’s Football Stadia Improvement Fund in July. They marked the occasion with a penalty shootout win over Cherry Hinton in the Cambs Invitation Cup. Picture: RWT PHOTOGRAPHY (Image: Archant)
The club switched on the floodlights at their Feldale Field home before a Cambs Invitation Cup tie with step seven outfit Cherry Hinton.
The investment was secured in July thanks to a £32,718 grant from the Premier League through the Football Stadia Improvement Fund (FSIF), the largest funders of non-league football in the country.
With floodlights now in place, this enabled the club to meet the requirements of Category H for the FA National Ground Grading Criteria, applicable to their level.
Whittlesey went through to the next round 5-4 on penalties after a 1-1 draw against the previously unbeaten Cambs League Premier leaders.
![Cambs Times: Whittlesey Athletic FC switched on their new floodlights for the first time on Wednesday night after securing a grant from the Premier League’s Football Stadia Improvement Fund in July. They marked the occasion with a penalty shootout win over Cherry Hinton in the Cambs Invitation Cup. Picture: RWT PHOTOGRAPHY]( "Cambs Times: Whittlesey Athletic FC switched on their new floodlights for the first time on Wednesday night after securing a grant from the Premier League’s Football Stadia Improvement Fund in July. They marked the occasion with a penalty shootout win over Cherry Hinton in the Cambs Invitation Cup. Picture: RWT PHOTOGRAPHY")
Whittlesey Athletic FC switched on their new floodlights for the first time on Wednesday night after securing a grant from the Premier League’s Football Stadia Improvement Fund in July. They marked the occasion with a penalty shootout win over Cherry Hinton in the Cambs Invitation Cup. Picture: RWT PHOTOGRAPHY (Image: Archant)
Justice Glover struck the hosts into a half-time lead, before Ricky Hailstone's men were pegged back on the hour when Conor Diver sent the game to spot-kicks.
![Cambs Times: Whittlesey Athletic FC switched on their new floodlights for the first time on Wednesday night after securing a grant from the Premier League’s Football Stadia Improvement Fund in July. They marked the occasion with a penalty shootout win over Cherry Hinton in the Cambs Invitation Cup. Picture: RWT PHOTOGRAPHY]( "Cambs Times: Whittlesey Athletic FC switched on their new floodlights for the first time on Wednesday night after securing a grant from the Premier League’s Football Stadia Improvement Fund in July. They marked the occasion with a penalty shootout win over Cherry Hinton in the Cambs Invitation Cup. Picture: RWT PHOTOGRAPHY")
Whittlesey Athletic FC switched on their new floodlights for the first time on Wednesday night after securing a grant from the Premier League’s Football Stadia Improvement Fund in July. They marked the occasion with a penalty shootout win over Cherry Hinton in the Cambs Invitation Cup. Picture: RWT PHOTOGRAPHY (Image: Archant)
![Cambs Times: Whittlesey Athletic FC switched on their new floodlights for the first time on Wednesday night after securing a grant from the Premier League’s Football Stadia Improvement Fund in July. They marked the occasion with a penalty shootout win over Cherry Hinton in the Cambs Invitation Cup. Picture: RWT PHOTOGRAPHY]( "Cambs Times: Whittlesey Athletic FC switched on their new floodlights for the first time on Wednesday night after securing a grant from the Premier League’s Football Stadia Improvement Fund in July. They marked the occasion with a penalty shootout win over Cherry Hinton in the Cambs Invitation Cup. Picture: RWT PHOTOGRAPHY")
Whittlesey Athletic FC switched on their new floodlights for the first time on Wednesday night after securing a grant from the Premier League’s Football Stadia Improvement Fund in July. They marked the occasion with a penalty shootout win over Cherry Hinton in the Cambs Invitation Cup. Picture: RWT PHOTOGRAPHY (Image: Archant)
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