A GANG of boozed-up youths on a wild rampage broke into a football clubhouse, ripped it apart then boasted in a graffiti scrawl: “We trashed the hut.”

Club officials at QK Southampton FC were left devastated to find their newly completed club house had been ransacked.

Vice-chairman Mike Thomas, 62, said: “It looks like a hurricane has hit the building. We’re just totally and utterly gutted.”

He said a passer-by had reported around 30 youths had descended on the site at the Five Acres fields off Redbridge Lane. It’s thought the names of ringleaders of the group have now been passed to police who are investigating.

The vandals broke through padlocked fenced gates to get into the clubhouse compound then smashed down a wooden door to the building.

An 8ft fridge was toppled and smashed, tables and chairs were tossed around, a tea bar counter was ripped from the walls, which were kicked in, lights were torn from the ceiling and scattered outside, and a microwave oven trampled. Even the contents of a first aid box were emptied around the building.

Amid the chaotic scenes beer bottles, cans and broken glass was strewn about the compound and on a football pitch outside.

The vandals then scrawled graffiti on wall of the home dugout. Beside a picture of a youth smoking a cannabis joint they left their parting message – “we trashed the hut”.

Mr Thomas, 62, said the club members had spent 15 months working hard to refurbish the clubhouse.

“It’s just absolutely heartbreaking to think of all the hard work our members have done to create this for the kids and now it’s just been smashed to smithereens.”

Police were called to reports of a burglary at the site at 8.20pm on Friday evening. It is understood names of suspected ringleaders, thought to be aged 15, have been passed to investigating officers.

Scenes of crimes officers have taken fingerprints from some of the bottles and cans left by the vandals.

QK Southampton was established in 1972. The Hampshire Premier League club has 16 men’s and youth teams.

Anyone who has chairs or tables they could donate to the club can call Mr Thomas on 07779 031060. The club are also seeking funding to install CCTV cameras.

Any information about the incident can be passed to PC Ockenden by calling 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.