ESAFC Youth Homepage

Welcome to the ESAFC Youth section for 2012

For information about a particular grade, please click on the relevant age grade for your child on the yellow menu on the left. Your child’s grade is the age they turn this calendar grade (i.e. turns 13 this year = 13th Grade).

Please read the information on that page, answers to most questions can be found on our website but in the unlikely event where you can’t find what you’re looking for, please...

Check your grade page on the Website
Contact your Coach
Contact your Grade Coordinator

The Draw for our 2012 inhouse league can be found here

2012 Grade identification/Trials results

Our 2012 Grade Identification/Trial process ran on Sunday the 12th and 19th of February.

Unlike previous years Boys and Girls trials where held together by Grade.

Trials where held on the 12th and 19th of February at Madill’s with players needing to attend at least one to be considered.
Players registered online as a member if they intended to trial.
The purpose of the trial was to identify which players would be considered for our top teams.
The number of Top teams was different per grade.

For more information on the trials please click here. To see the results, see the individual grade page.

Youth Philosophy

Our philosophy at Suburbs and with youth is to become recognised as a high quality service provider that has the capability to increase the participation, quality and enjoyment of football players at all levels in the game through creating high quality coaching and playing environments.

Our aim is:

To encourage pride and a sense of belonging in the club, its predecessors and successors.
To provide an organisational structure that is robust, progressive and sustainable.
To provide a youth section operation that is financially sound.
To promote team spirit and sportsmanship.
To achieve high levels of player retention.
To encourage the support of the members, their families, local schools and businesses to assist with the club operations on and off the playing fields.
To ensure that the club develops representative players.
To promote, support and prepare our players and teams in the club to achieve success in league and tournament competition.

To promote, support and prepare our best players for Eastern Suburbs Youth, Senior Football, Auckland Federation Development Programmes, NZFC Youth Academies and potentially international football environments.

ESAFC Youth academy

Our Youth Academy primarily runs in Term 4 with separate groups running at the same time.

Our Elite Group
Our Development Group
Our Goal Keeper Group

Our Academy is an exciting development for Suburbs as it enables us to provide a high quality development opportunity to a lot more players in our community than ever before.

For more details please email our Youth Chairman, Michael Chair. email

Youth TRAINING SCHEDULE

Youth training schedule for the top teams in each grade will be at the following grounds.

Madills Farm

Glover Park

AMI Training Schedule

AMI Court layout and Map click here

Schedule for Coerver Training and Parent Team Coaching at Madills Farm

*The schedule of which team is training where can be found here. Club training officially starts 23rd of April.

Individual Youth team webpages

If you would like to create your own Youth Team website and store it here, please do. To see some examples please click here

Partnership agreement with ESAFC and West Bromwich Albion

After lengthy discussions over the past six months, we are very pleased to announce a formal arrangement has been entered into between Eastern Suburbs AFC and English Premier Club West Bromwich Albion. As a result of this ESAFC will be sending every year at least one promising 13 – 17 year old boy for a two week trial at the WBA academy. Please click here for full explanation

Youth Grade Organisers

ESAFC Youth is run by the ESAFC Youth Committee. This committee is essentially made up of the different Grade Coordinators. Our role as a committee is to provide the right balance of product and services to the different types of players that exist.

We look forward to an exciting 2012 season.

Executive

Youth Chair	Michael Cahir	email	021 2431026
Youth Delegate

Grade Coordinators - Girls

17th Grade Girls	Selwyn Bradley	email
15th Grade Girls	Michael Lawrie	email	021 223 2373
14th Grade Girls	David Ballantyne	email	027 274 7586
13th Grade Girls	Sarah Prentice	email	021 353 167
12th Grade Girls	Rhys Greensill	email	021 758 188
11th Grade Girls	Floyd Hunswick	email	0274 036 799
10th Grade Girls	Tracey Kingdon	Email	578 1375

Grade Coordinators - Boys

17th Grade Boys	Neil Dowsett	email	021 894 710
15th Grade Boys	Michael Murphy	email	029 2899142
14th Grade Boys	John Etherington	email
13th Grade Boys	Henri Hermans	email	027 473 9670
12th Grade Boys	Gary Ireland	email	021 433 395
11th Grade Boys	Karen Ogilvie	email	021 0252 9914
10th Grade Boys	Karen Ogilvie	email	021 0252 9914

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