Three is magic number for Holyhead Hotspur Development – 2025-26 treble winners!

North Wales Coast Development League Final

Holyhead Hotspur Development 5 (Buckley 37, 82, N Owen 57, McGinness pen 64, Morris 73)
Kinmel Bay Development 0

Treble winners in their very first season – it simply could not have gone better for Holyhead Hotspur Development.
Today the Holy Islanders completed the terrific threesome of NWCFA West Division title, League Cup and Development League Final winners with an emphatic 5-0 triumph over East champions Kinmel Bay Development at Bethesda.
Cameron Buckley (2), Noel Owen, Mel McGinness (pen) and Huw Morris secured a 25th win in 27 games for Scott Hakesley triple heroes.

Scott talks us through Sunday’s final at Parc Meurig:

“Today we had the opportunity to make it a treble winning season.
As the game got underway I felt we took control from the start but found ourselves over-playing at times and struggling to find width so after 30 minutes resulted back to a 4-2-3-1 formation which allowed us to open up the pitch knowing if we did the right things at the right time goals would come.
On the 37th minute last week’s cup final MOTN young Reece Thomas found in form Cameron James Buckley to slot home and take us into the break 1-0
In the dressing room at half time we were happy as a group but felt by tweaking certain aspects of our play we would find ourselves more successful in front of goal.
Second half and what we’ve witnessed all season the lads produced once more. Macy And Dad Away Days finding Noel Owen to fire home. This was Noel’s first game back from injury and it was good to see him pick up where he left off – thanks to Tony Maguire for all his work with Noel.
With Kinmel Bay going long we felt going to wing-backs for the last 25 minutes would secure up our play and give us a more fluid end.
Changes made from a strong bench found us awarded a penalty with Melv McGinness stepping up to score. Ten minutes later a Ryan Woodruff corner found Melv who put in a lovely cross for Huw Morris to get a well deserved goal.
Cameron finished off today’s victory with a great solo effort. Jake Chapman and his defence yet again keeping a clean sheet, making it I believe 16 for the season.
As a squad every single player has played their part, trained extremely hard all season and deserve their rewards.
We will now take a small break before a night of enjoyment on the 5th June in which all family and fans are invited The Port Inn Holyhead @18.00 start.
From myself I want to say thank you to my staff and my players who have made this season enjoyable. Taking on this challenge I knew I wouldn’t be able to keep everyone happy all the time but I like to think I tried my best and did everything possible to allow all a platform to progress and shine.
Once again thank you 🙏 and congratulations everyone involved 👍
Thank you to Kinmel Bay – great outfit and top lads.
Thanks to today’s officials.
And thank you to CP Bethesda Athletic for having us.“

HOW THE TREBLE WAS WON

LEAGUE

Aug 24: CPD Pwllheli – Tim Datblygu (h) 8-0
Aug 28: Trearddur Bay Development (a) 3-2
Aug 31: Nantlle Vale Development (h) 5-0
Sep 7: CPD Pentraeth Development (a) 6-1
Sep 14: CPD Llanfairpwll Development (h) 12-0
Sep 28: CPD Nefyn – Tim Datblygu (a) 1-1
Oct 5: CPD Gaerwen Development (h) 5-0
Oct 12: Bontnewydd Development (a) 4-0
Oct 19: CPD Mynydd Llandegai Development (h) 2-1
Oct 26: Llanrug United Development (a) 5-1
Nov 9: CPD Pentraeth Development (h) 9-0
Nov 30: Bontnewydd Development (h) 5-1
Jan 18: Llanrug United Development (h) 7-0
Jan 25: CPD Mynydd Llandegai Development (a) 5-0
Feb 8: CPD Llanberis Development (h) 3-1
Feb 15: CPD Gaerwen Development (a) 4-0
Mar 1: CPD Llanfairpwll Development (a) 5-1
Mar 22: Nantlle Vale Development (a) 5-0
Mar 29: CPD Nefyn United – Tim Datblygu (h) 6-0
Apr 5: Trearddur Bay Development (h) 7-0
Apr 19: CPD Llanberis Development (a) 4-0
Apr 26: CPD Pwllheli – Tim Datblygu (a) 0-3
PLAYED 22 WON 20 DRAWN 1 LOST 1 GOALS FOR 111 GOALS AGAINST 12 PTS 61 POSITION 1ST

NWCFA DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE CUP

Jan 11: Conwy Borough Swifts Development (h) 2-0 (Gregg, McGinness)
Mar 8: CPD Pwllheli – Tim Datblygu (h) 4-2 (Gregg 2, J Rowlands, L Garmey)
Apr 23: Mochdre Sports Development (a) 6-2 (L Garmey 2, J Rowlands, H Morris, Meek, S Pritchard)
May 10: Penmaenmawr Phoenix (F) 4-0 (L Garmey, Francis, J Rowlands, Buckley)

NWCFA DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE FINAL

May 17: Kinmel Bay Development (N) 5-0 (Buckley 2, N Owen, McGinness pen, H Morris)

TOTAL RECORD FOR SEASON
PLAYED 27 WON 25 DRAWN 1 LOST 1 GOALS FOR 132 AGAINST AGAINST 16

GOALSCORERS (132)

20 – Cameron Buckley
18 – Kane Astles
16 – Sean Pritchard
11 – Lucas Garmey
10 – Casey Gregg
8 – Noel Owen
7 – Jordan Rowlands
7 – Mel McGinness
6 – Ryan Woodruff
5 – Shay Murphy
4 – Steve Dreidyk
3 – Huw Morris
3 – Dan Doyle
3 – Reece Francis
2 – Luke Llewellyn
2 – Myles Jones
1 – Jake Chapman
1 – Joe Jones
1 – Luke Jones
1 – Cayden Malone
1 – Jacob Owen
1 – Zac Williams
1 – Luca Meek