The Royal Shrovetide Football Match occurs annually on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday in the town of Ashbourne.

ourashbourne.co.uk provides a super guide.

The BBC says that Ashbourne is more famous for Shrovetide football - its own chaotic and brutal form of the beautiful game - than international soccer.

But the town can claim its own footnote in the story of the 1966 World Cup, having played host to "Die Nationalmannschaft" for 18 days from 8 July.

AFC is a partner in ACSP which aims to enhance the quality of sporting provision within Ashbourne and surrounding area

Visit ACSP website for more.

Our good friends at Rocester, with whom we share a ground.

AFC and Aztecs work closely together across the football spectrum in Ashbourne and surrounding areas.

Football is the greatest sport on earth. It is played in every country and at many different levels. The Laws of the Game are the same for all football throughout the world from the FIFA World Cup™ Final through to a game between young children in a remote village.