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Mixed-gender Hackney football league watched by FA as they lead charge for inclusive sport

The Hackney-based Power League, started by a group of friends, could be paving the way for greater inclusivity in football

Author: Gabriel Stewart

‘We are ourselves’: Hackney football club launches kit to celebrate its standing as Europe’s first openly gay women’s team

Hackney Women’s FC new strip is full of details that pay tribute to its founders and history

Author: Marion Weaver

‘We are ourselves’: Hackney football club launches kit to celebrate its standing as Europe’s first openly gay women’s team

Stonewall FC and Clapton CFC to meet tomorrow in ‘marquee fixture’ celebrating LGBT+ history month

League match between the local rivals will double as tribute to the LGBT+ community and fighting discrimination in football

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Stonewall FC and Clapton CFC to meet tomorrow in ‘marquee fixture’ celebrating LGBT+ history month

‘Today, we have made history’: Players and fans salute Clapton’s community football club after record-breaking FA Cup run

Women’s team last week became the first seventh-tier side to compete in the third round of the competition

Author: Tom Davidson

‘Today, we have made history’: Players and fans salute Clapton’s community football club after record-breaking FA Cup run

Whistle to blow on Romance FC’s women’s five-a-side tournament in Shoreditch this Saturday

The all-female football collective will take on 11 other teams from the South East and France for charity in the 2017 edition of Playing For Kicks

Author: Hackney Citizen

Squad up: the 2016 line-up of teams contesting Paying For Kicks. Photograph: Romance FC

Iconic West Bromwich Albion themed Haggerston pub The Albion closes

The boozer, which has been called “London’s best football pub”, will make way for a new tavern from the teams behind Remarkable Pubs and local restaurant The Fish House

Author: Hackney Citizen

No more: The Albion pub with it's trademark black-and-white Baggies livery. Photograph: Google Street View

Local community football team Hackney Wick FC to turn semi-pro

The side are set to merge with Newham-based London Bari FC, but a lack of quality football grounds mean they won’t be playing in Hackney

Author: Hackney Citizen

Wick-ed game: Hackney Wick Fc's first XI. Photograph: Bobby Kasanga

Lovin’ it: McDonald’s sponsors new kit for under eights football team

Fast food giant’s help for grassroots sports praised by Hackney Downs All Stars despite unhealthy nature of Big Mac and fries

Author: Hackney Citizen

Amir Atefi with members of the U8s team who received the free McDonald's kit

Mayor slammed for ‘bunch of tree-huggers’ jibe in football stadium row

Jules Pipe argues with volunteer who quit Labour over mayor’s remarks

Author: Hackney Citizen

Mayor slammed for ‘bunch of tree-huggers’ jibe in football stadium row

Titbits – Sporting Hackney FC and Simche Steinberger’s shot at goal

An embattled month for local ‘treehuggers’ and ‘Corbyn the clown’

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney Marshes, the current home of Sporting Hackney FC.

New football stadium would be game-changer says Sporting Hackney FC

Club urges council to get ball rolling to help find new grounds

Author: Hackney Citizen

Sporting Hackney photo credit Patrick Green 460

Arsenal Ladies star dazzles youngsters at ReachOut’s first girls tournament

Danielle Carter ‘impressed’ by young talent as mentoring charity holds competition on Mabley Green

Author: Hackney Citizen