Woking FC have run a Youth team for many years, and in 2003 the Club established a collaboration with Woking College to help talented young footballers make progress in their sporting careers whilst continuing with their academic studies.
The original scheme included 6 hours of coaching per week by fully-qualified UEFA 'A' licence coaches whilst the boys also studied for a BTEC National Diploma in Sports.
For the season 2009/10 the Academy now operates out of Woking and Merrist Wood Colleges plus the Guildford County School and the range of subjects has been expanded to include 'A' Levels and an NVQ in Sports Coaching.
The Academy will be running five teams: there will be one team in the U18 Southern Youth League (playing as Westfield FC); one in the U18 Ryman Youth League; one in the U19 English Colleges League and one in the U19 Football Conference Youth League and, in addition, we will be managing the Woking Reserves playing in the Suburban Football League. These arrangements will enable us to have a more flexible approach and will assist in the continuing development of players within the Academy.
We are particularly pleased to be running a Reserve team, a decision that can only assist our aims of bridging the age and physical gap between the Youth Academy and the 1st Team whilst also helping to provide football to 1st Team players who may for whatever reason not be playing sufficient 1st Team football.
Since its inception in 2003 the newly-structured Academy has been hugely successful and the 2009/10 1st Team squad consists of seven contract and a further seven non-contract players who have come through the Academy Youth system.
The Academy is attempting to be a self-financing structure and a range of opportunities to sponsor the Academy are available.
Information For Academy Players
If you're a member of our Youth Academy, then there is a private Facebook group set up to provide you with details about training, matches, etc
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