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How to Start A Football Team | Setting Up A Grassroots Football Team
How to start a football team is a question we regularly receive, so if you're looking to start a football team you've come to the right place. Football is the most popular sport in the world. Watched and played by millions on a daily basis, there are a number of...
A Guide to Football Pitch Sizes | Pitch Dimensions
Do you need to know the sizes of a football pitch? Our pitch size guide has the answers for you! Football pitches are an integral component within the sport. Not only can a pitch be the difference between winning and losing or enjoyment and...
How to Progress Up the Coaching Ladder: UEFA Pro Licence
Following the acquisition of the UEFA A Licence, you’re then ready to take the final step in your coaching qualification journey to obtain the prestigious UEFA Pro Licence. Course Details The FA UEFA Pro Licence is the mandatory qualification for all first team...
How to Progress Up the Coaching Ladder: UEFA A Licence
After gaining the UEFA B licence on your journey of progressing up the coaching ladder, the next step is acquiring your FA Level 4 Award, or as it’s more commonly known: the UEFA A Licence. As can be seen from the qualification pyramid below, the UEFA A Licence is the...
Guide To Football Pre-Season Training | Football Pre-Season Tips
The most important factors to consider during the first days back at pre-season training?After a long layoff from training and/or competition, the body and mind have had time to recover from the stress and pressures that work in conjunction with competing and training...
How To Get Sponsorship For Your Grassroots Football Team
If you're part of a football club looking for sponsorship for football kits, you've come to the right place. Sponsorship is one of those necessary evils that all low-level football teams must eventually face up to. But economic hardship coupled with a lack of...
Prostar: End of an Era
It is with great sadness to announce that Prostar has officially finished trading. The company boasted over 100 years’ experience of recognising exactly what teams need from a quality sportswear brand. Their incredible value and exceptional customer service helped...
Manchester Respect League’s 12 Rules For Junior Football
Previously, many believed that the FA were implementing a new nationwide ‘12 rules’ scheme across all levels of junior football. But these reports which surfaced mid October weren’t exactly correct – the rules do exist but they are not directly associated with the FA....
Interview With The Winners Of Our Girls Football Week Giveaway!
Earlier on in the year, we ran a fantastic giveaway giving Women's football teams the chance to win a 14 brand new Nike kits for their team. The prize included free number printing on the back of the shirts and free club badge embroidery, both done...
Top 10 Players In Women’s Football
The increase in both coverage and popularity for the women's game over the past few years has been exponential. Whether you have been a longtime fan or are just now beginning to follow women's football, we've got you covered. Girls Football Week runs from 6 Nov - 12...
How To Become A Successful Football Writer
Want to become a football writer? It's not the least bit surprising that there is such a strong correlation between football's increasing popularity and the volume of aspiring football writers out there. Unfortunately, the market simply cannot handle this number. And...
Is the UEFA Nations League Positive for International Football?
What is the UEFA Nations League? International friendlies are often talked about with great disdain, particularly by those associated with the English game. Whether it’s an inherently British quality or not, there’s clear rationale behind this widespread...
The Premier League’s New Transfer Window Closing Date
On Thursday (7th September 2017) afternoon - one week after the transfer window slammed shut – Premier League clubs unanimously voted to bring forward the summer window deadline from August 31 at 23:00 to August 9 at 17:00; effective from next year and the upcoming...
Football Mannequin Review
I purchased two senior football mannequins for my U12 girl's football team with the intention of using them mainly for my goalkeeper coaching sessions. I’ve found many more uses for them than I thought possible – from using them as a free kick wall, an obstruction in...
Nike Partner Club Event at St George’s Park
Nike Partner Club is a joint collaboration between Nike and The FA which is exclusively available in England to FA Charter Standard Community & Development Clubs. The goal is to raise standards in Grass Roots football, from investment in coaching accreditation...
How well would Celtic do in the Premier League?
Season after season, year after year and trophy after trophy Celtic remain to be the most dominating football team in the Scottish Premiership. In fact the last time Celtic DIDN'T win the Scottish Premier League was the 2010–11 season. Of course, with Rangers'...
How To Become A Football Referee
England has seen to be at the forefront of elite officiating, this was evident in 2010 as one of England’s top referees Howard Webb became the first referee to be the man in the middle for both the Champions League final and the World Cup final in the same year. The...
FA Coaching Badges Explained: How to Become a Football Coach
FA coaching badges are the way to go if you’re looking to become a qualified football coach. The FA provide a series of courses that deliver the guidance and knowledge to transition from an average football fan to a qualified football coach. In short, FA coaching...
Effective Warm Up: A guide for footballers & coaches
Effective Warm Up – A guide for footballers & coaches A warm up is a vital part of football preparation. At the elite level of football, the warm up protocol continues to evolve. A few minutes of stretching and touches on the ball is no longer considered...
The FA launches ‘Player to Coach’ scheme
Towards the end of last year (2016), the FA offered to assist selected ex-players with their UEFA A and Pro Licenses as a path into managing and coaching. Frank Lampard, Paul Scholes, Steven Gerrard and Ashley Cole among others were all been contacted by the FA but...
How to Become a Football Scout
How do you become a football scout? What are the steps needed to go from regular fan to professional scout? How many of us can answer these questions? In fact, how many people would even know where to begin researching to find out those answers? Our article aims...
An in-depth look into player power
Dimitri Payet has recently secured his ‘want away’ move to Marseille, which will see West Ham United pocket £25 million. The process is usually simple, a club make a bid for the player, the selling club fight to secure the best possible transfer fee and the player...
Pep Guardiola Career Timeline
Josep ‘Pep’ Guardiola is a quite private man and happily keeps it that way with a simple life with his wife Cristina Serra and their three children. Shielding his family from the public eye and not one to flash his wealth, the extrovert Pep we see on the touchline is...
A letter from Poppies 4 Kits
Poppies4Kits is working with support of the Royal British Legion to raise funds for the Poppy Appeal. After seeing the Premier League stars raise thousands by having their shirts embroidered with the poppy emblem, we thought it would be a fantastic idea if all youth...
