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FLEET SPURS YOUTH FOOTBALL CLUB
‘Primus Inter Pares’

Fleet has a number of Football Clubs: Fleet Spurs Youth aims to be the best. The Club has strong links with the Fleet Spurs men’s Club for which many of our 18+ lads play after leaving the Youth set-up. Some players have also gone on to greater things and are now playing for League or non-League teams.

The Club attracts a significant number of youngsters who play ‘First Football’ and other ‘entry level’ versions of football until they are ready to start the full scale eleven a side version. At 8, 9 and 10 the emphasis is on short, small-sided matches, with everyone participating to the full. At Christmas the Club runs a very popular 5-a -side competition for the 8 –14 year olds, countering the effect of too much Christmas pudding.

For the ’01 – 02 season, the Club has a team running in each age group from 9 to 17 (except under 14). Creating a ‘Club spirit’ is very important to all of us involved with the Club: it is a delight to see how many managers enjoyed success with us as players in their boyhood days.

Home matches are played at Kennels Lane, Southwood, where the modern pavilion and range of pitches give our visitors pause for thought before meeting our teams on the pitch.

Fleet Spurs Youth counts a number of local businesses, retail, marketing, and commercial, among its sponsors. Thanks too are due to the local Council for support, in particular for providing ‘First Football’ goalposts. Club sponsors have helped provide training facilities, trophies for Awards Night, Club ties, nets, training balls and other items of equipment. For its part, the Club is always seeking innovative and imaginative ways of arranging Press coverage of the Club’s successes, and the debt owed to the sponsors.

A report from Fleet Spurs Youth features in every edition of the Fleet & Yateley Mail throughout the season and while it is clear to the readership that, our teams do not win every game, they play the game in a positive and competitive spirit.

The club also has its own website www.fleetspurs.co.uk which contains further details and contact names for the club and each of its teams and our Executive Committee is always glad to speak to potential Club sponsors: please contact John Gawthorpe 01252-665630 in the first instance.


hart "Hart FC was founded in 1998. Until last season we were known as Hart Boys FC. This season we have players all the way from age 5 to age 12. Whilst the older age group players are all boys, we are starting to see girls joining the younger age groups" The full list of aims of Hart FC is in the Constitution. Here is a summary: · To provide a safe environment for the children who come to play football · To ensure that each child is given every opportunity to develop their own footballing skills · To ensure that every child at the club has the opportunity to represent the club at competitive football at a standard appropriate to their abilities In practise, this means having a lot of fun whilst improving all aspects of our play. We attract players from Fleet and from Odiham. Our older age groups have excellent records for winning leagues and trophies, whereas with our younger age groups, the emphasis is very much on fair play and fun." The over-6s to over 10-s train and play at Court Moor School The under-11's and under 12-s play at RAF Odiham
For more information contact the website www.hartfc.net