Dear Super Parent 🙂
There is an important thing you must do at the end of this information page. It takes 10 seconds and ensures we are clear on your re-joining status for next season 👍
And just like that, another season is nearly over! Next season is a step up for your little footballer as they enter our official club, training twice a week and playing matches against other teams in the Epsom and Ewell League on Saturday mornings.
Below you will find plans for next season, and information on re-joining.
BENEFITS AND VALUE FOR YOU
1. Training Kit For Each Child ✅
Your child will receive a tracksuit, training top, and rain jacket as part of your re-registration fee.
2. Further Opportunities & Experiences For Our Players ✅
Our Torino FC (the Italian, Serie A professional club) partnership allows for our players to be coached by their pro coaches. They visit us in November, and provide the opportunity to enjoy a 3 day camp at Easter. We are the only club in the UK to hold this partnership.
3. Goalkeeper Training ✅
Every technical evening, we hold goalkeeper training for any child who wishes to give this a go.
4. Train twice a week ✅
Technical night is led by Skillz coaches, and Team night is led by your manager. This mix of coaching has proved hugely succesful for our teams this season
5. Continuous Manager Development ✅
Our Academy Manager, Valentino De Luca, provides daily support for our managers. He is on hand at all training sessions and home matches to guide and develop them. Our entire team of managers are parents of the club who have been put through training and on their FA coaching course.
6. Filmed Matches with Veo Technology ✅
Memories being captured on film that will last forever. We record our matches (club rota so each team gets equal filming opportunity) and provide you with the footage, including clipped highlights to view all of the exciting parts easily!
7. Excellent facilities - training and match days ✅
We train at Mons Hill Sports Centre on their astro, and at the prestigious private school, Royal Russell.
Our home ground is Beddington Cricket Club where the pitches are well maintained, and we have a club house too.
8. Guest Academy Sessions 😱
To give our players a further unique experience, we have secured 3 Premier League Academy Coaches to deliver 2 sessions each across next season. See the talent we are bringing in:
Joe Antonelli - Crystal Palace FC u15s coach
Rob Jones - Crystal Palace FC u9s coach
Scott Hastings - Chelsea FC u15s coach
All 3 are working in an elite environment, and all started out in a grassroots club like ours. They are all UEFA B licensed, with Joe Antonelli an A licensed coach + Advanced Youth Award holder. Joe and Rob were featured in the Channel 4 Crystal Palace documentary which you can watch here
This, along with Torino FC coaches visiting, well what can we say? What an experience for our players! 😬
9. New FREE Match Day Kit 🤞
We have secured a sponsor to provide this for all new players. Design, sponsor and info announced soon, but this is absolutely FREE of charge!
PRICING FOR NEW SEASON
You may have seen that other grassroots clubs out there are cheaper and offer much less than us, but our club does not operate in the same way (giving your child a mix of grassroots and academy style), and we are not run by volunteers like others. We're passionate about giving you an experience that's truly great, and we work 7 days a week to continue to improve for you.
In order to do that, we invest in 2 full time members of staff, an admin team, a team of coaches to run technical nights, good quality venues and equipment, an exclusive partnership that no other club offers, plus all of the other benefits listed above. It costs us £90,000+ to run the club each season, but we aim to remain great value and charge a fair price to you, our wonderful community!
Re-registration Fee inc. training kit | £65 |
June pre-season (6 sessions) | £30 |
July pre-season (6 sessions) | £30 |
September 22 - May 23 | £65 per month* |
Sibling discount | 40% on 2nd child monthly fees |
* Please note: this is the ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM per month we will charge from September. We are in talks with another sponsor who will provide funding to allow us to charge just £60 per month instead (nothing confirmed but we are working on this). Also, if we hit our quota of teams and players, we will be able to offer this at £60 per month too.
You will receive approximately, 107 football experiences:
12 training sessions pre season (June and July). This is optional and not mandatory, but strongly advised as the new team bonds.
30 matches (Sept 23 - April 24)
64 training sessions (Sept 23 - May 24)
At least 1 tournament
1 end of season awards afternoon
+ Optional Torino camp at Easter (£30 per day)
+ Optional pre-season 3 day camp in August (£25 per day)* TBC
TRAINING NIGHTS AND TIMES
Training will continue twice a week and to avoid disruption to your timetable, we will be keeping your training nights the same as what they have been this season.
🏟️ U7 TECHNICAL NIGHT - Tuesday 6.15pm-7.15pm @ Monks Hill Sports Centre
🏟️ U7 TEAM NIGHT - Thursday 6.15-7.15pm @ Royal Russell School
🏟️ U7 & U8 MATCHES* - Saturday - home games @ Beddington Cricket Club. Away games across Surrey, Croydon, and Sutton.
🏟️ U8 TECHNICAL NIGHT - Monday 6.15pm-7.15pm @ Monks Hill Sports Centre
🏟️ U8 TEAM NIGHT - Wednesday 6.15-7.15pm @ Royal Russell School
*Kick off times at home are around 9.30am or 10.30am, away game kick offs can be any time up until 11.30am. Away kick offs are set by away teams and not us.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO NOW...
📲✅ Please click this link to give us your re-joining status. It is a simple yes/no + your child's name form that will take 10 seconds. This is different to the feedback survey we asked you to do. 📲✅
If we do not receive your re-joining status by Sunday 7th May, we will assume you are not joining and will not include you in our squads for the new season. Your payments with us will automatically be cancelled (but please do fill in the form for us to help us with this!)
It has been another hugely successful season for the club. Valentino and Scott look forward to celebrating with everyone on Saturday 20th May at our End of Season Awards Presentation! Thank you so much for being part of our community this season - we really appreciate your commitment and love for the club 💙
And, to give you a great experience as a parent, and to raise funds for the season ahead, lace up your boots for our first ever SZ Parents tournament on Saturday 13th May @ Powerleague. Book your space here
Thanks so much all!
Ashley, Scott & Valentino