Hereford FC Chairman, Chris Ammonds, has offered his sincere gratitude to the club’s supporters after the club’s 2024/25 Squad Builder initiative reached £50,000 on Friday afternoon.

The milestone total was passed prior to the match funding deadline of 5pm on Friday, which means the club’s Founding Shareholders incredible offer to match the amount raised by supporters has taken the total amount added to the playing budget through Squad Builder to almost £101,000.

Speaking earlier today, Ammonds said:

“I’m absolutely blown away by the amount of donations we have seen to Squad Builder and the amount of money that it has added to the playing budget.

“I’d like to thank every single fan who has donated for their contribution and also, once again, thank the Founding Shareholders for their amazing offer to match fund with supporters.

“The amount donated is more than I think it was fair to ever have expected and it has already made a huge difference to the quality of the squad that our manager has been able to put together. I am incredibly proud of the way our fans have pulled together to support this initiative.

“It is important to explain to fans that we have been making the Squad Builder funds available to Paul as soon as they have come in, because being able to make his moves to sign players as early as possible was absolutely vital.

“If we had waited for the final total before releasing the money we may well have missed out on many of the players we have been able to sign so once again, thank you to every single supporter for helping us put together the squad that started with such promise on the opening day of the season.

“While the match funding element of Squad Builder has now ended, the initiative itself will remain ‘live’ for the foreseeable future and you can still make a donation by visiting the link at the bottom of the page.

“Once again, thank you to absolutely everyone who has contributed in any way to Squad Builder for 2024/25. The money raised is making a huge difference, just as this type of initiative does for many other clubs every single year.”

Later this week we will be announcing the Squad Builder monthly draw winner for August who will win a VIP day-out for two people as guest of the Bulls Chairman at the game against Radcliffe on August Bank Holiday Monday.

To find out more about Squad Builder, please click right here.