U8's age group are classed as our foundation stage as most of these players are new to football and are learning to understand football.
This is a beginners session where they will participate in fun games and explore the social element of football with teamwork and socialising with friends. Also, they will begin to understand the basics of football whilst introducing a focus on technical development which covers ball mastery, passing & shooting.
To further the understanding of football to U8's, we aim to arrange friendlies with local grassroots teams that match the current ability of the group in order to give the group match experience. This allows them to have fun as well as learn about different positions and showcase the skills they have learnt.
Boys
For the 2023/2024 season, we created an affiliated grassroots team for our U8's Boys to play in a league for the first time.
Frequent match experience is important for this age group's development and whilst U8's leagues aren't competitive, they are able to have fun and enjoy football as well as learning each week about positions, technical skills and how to play football as a team.
U8's Football:
Format: 5v5
Match Time: 40 minutes (20 min halves)
Ball Size: 3
Training Topics:
Ball mastery, passing, shooting, positions, teamwork, dribbling, defending, attacking.
