The famous Premier League trophy has been lifted by footballing greats including David Beckham, Thierry Henry, Alan Shearer, Frank Lampard and many more. Across the past three decades, it has spent time in the trophy cabinets at famous grounds including Old Trafford, Highbury, Stamford Bridge, Anfield, Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium and the King Power at Leicester City.

And on Saturday November 30 the Premier League Trophy was at The Young Guns Arena, for Tadcaster Albion’s Northern Counties East League Premier Division fixture against Eccleshill United, as the home side won 3-2 courtesy of Elliot Andrew’s decisive last-minute goal.

Fans were able to get a close-up look and take photos with the silverware, as was Club President Kevin Derry, a recent recipient of a 50 years long-service award from The FA.

The Trophy visit was arranged to mark continued investment at the club from the Premier League, one of more than 1,000 clubs to have received investment from the Premier League Stadium Fund.

The Premier League Stadium Fund has provided more than £200m of grants since the year 2000 as part of the League’s support for football at all levels.

Tadcaster Albion has received more than £100,000 in funding from the Premier League towards new, energy-efficient LED floodlights, fencing and several relief grants to help the club recover and protect itself from the effects of storms and flooding.

Club Chairman Andy Charlesworth explains: "Our club is at the centre of Tadcaster both geographically and in terms of our community. We’ve got 130 years of history and more than 300 players across 20-odd junior teams. We attract fans from across Yorkshire and have even got a supporters’ group based in Norway who come across twice a year!

“The whole town of Tadcaster is prone to flooding due to its low-lying land and position on the river, which presents challenges. We hope that the Tadcaster flood alleviation scheme that is proposed will help in the long term as we flood every season and our pitch was submerged six times last year following storms.

“With the help of the Premier League, we've invested over the years in various pieces of technology and been able to work with a specialist sports turf company. We've got drains that run across the pitch. If you go to the ground, you’ll see the pitch is not quite level, its lowest point in the corner has a great big sump which means water will drain naturally and we can pump the water away.

“Without the support of the Premier League Stadium Fund, we wouldn't have a club. When water levels have been high enough to breach our flood doors and damage the club house, we have been able to access grants to make material repairs and to replace things our insurance was not able to cover.”

Tadcaster Albion FC Grants Manager James Hamilton added: “With the support of the Premier League, we had LED floodlights installed in April. Firstly, they are reliable and bright and don’t take any time to warm up. They are a huge improvement on our old floodlights which needed replacing.

“We are a community club with limited resources and we’ve had to focus on ensuring the pitch is playable, so this is great. We project that the LED floodlights will save us more than 40 per cent on our total energy bill and anything we can do to reduce our carbon footprint is a very good thing.”