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Gosford City Football Club is the ideal place to introduce your kids to Soccer!

With introductory, non-competition age groups from Under 5′s to Under 11′s, your kids will learn basic football and social skills, in a fun team environment, fully supervised by our coaches.

Our Home Ground is Gavenlock Oval in Narara, otherwise known as the Dragon's Den.

The seaon's games run from April till August each year.

Training is held on Tuesday or Thursday afternoons at either Gavenlock Oval or Paddy Clifton Oval. When training is held is dependent on your Team's Coach's availability. Additional training may be available to your child on Wednesday evenings if they are selected for our Academy Squad or for any female player wanting to attend the Female Footballers Development Squad.

We are a Grass Roots sporting Club run by volunteers. All our teams have a Coach and a Manager, these roles are filled by parent/family volunteers from the team. No experience is necessary and the Club provides information and training on how to do these roles. 

If you have questions please contact our Junior Football Managers:

Under 5's-7's: Cameron Bradley This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.             0412 571 654

Under 8's-11's Nicole Stammers This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

 

Gosford City Football Club

GRADING 8 – 11 YEARS

Under 8’s

There is no grading for this age group. Player's can choose to play with friends or current team mates if they wish. If you would like to be placed in a specific team, please contact the relevant Junior Football Manager upon your registration so your child can be allocated into that team. We will endeavour to keep teams together if you wish. Under 8s is a semi-graded competition and teams will be allocated their “grade” at a team level by our Junior Football Manager. Team assessment will be done as part of the Trial Games.

Under 9’s-11’s

Individual grading is voluntary, that is you can choose whether you wish to have your child placed into a team based on their relative skill level, or you can choose to play with friends or specific team.

We hold grading days for our under 9's to under 11's. All players are required to attend grading, at which players can be graded individually to be placed in a competitively graded team, or those players wishing to form their own team can have their team graded to ensure they're playing in the correct level of competition for their teams overall skill level.

PLEASE EMAIL YOUR PREFERENCE AND ANY TEAM REQUESTS TO YOUR FOOTBALL MANAGER:

8- 11 years Nicole Stammers This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

GRADING SESSIONS HELD AT NARARA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL

AGE	TIME	1st SESSION	2nd SESSION
U9’s	5-6pm	Tuesday 23rd Feb	Tuesday 2nd March
U10’s	6-7pm	Tuesday 23rd Feb	Tuesday 2nd March
U11’s	5-6pm	Wednesday 24th Feb	Wednesday 3rd March
U12‘s	6-7pm	Wednesday 24th Feb	Wednesday 3rd March
U13’s	5-6pm	Thursday 25th Feb	Thursday 4th March
U14’s	6-7pm	Thursday 25th Feb	Thursday 4th March

 

WASHOUT / BACKUP DATES

9 & 10 years Tuesday 9^th March 5-7pm / 11 & 12 years Wednesday 10^th March 5-7 pm / 13 & 14 years Thursday 11^th March 5-7pm

 

Our Grading sessions will be focused on the Skills Acquisition Phase of Football and will include a focus on running with the ball, striking the ball, 1 v1 and first touch, along with small sided games.

Once the grading sessions are completed we will place players into preliminary teams for trial games. Trial games will complete the grading process for us with player movements between teams being made, where necessary.

 

GRADING ATTENDANCE CONFIRMATION

Before Grading commences, please email your intention for individual grading or to play with friends or a previous team.

Email Nicole Stammers at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

We appreciate your assistance during this process as we work to ensure all players are happy.

GCFC SAP ACADEMY

The SAP Academy will comprise of some of Gosford City's most promising players from under 9s, 10s, 11s and 12s who will participate in specialised additional training, again focused on Football Federation of Australia’s 4 Core Skills (one vs one, striking the ball, running with the ball and first touch). These training sessions will run once a week for 20 weeks on Wednesday afternoons/evenings. Sessions are intended to improve skills and further develop our team’s success in the highest graded competition of Central Coast Football.

The FFA’s Curriculum aims to develop future generations of players and teams that will enable Australia to maintain a leading position in world football, particularly in Asia. Gosford City Football Club intend to do our part to help achieve these aims.

The Academy will form 4 Squads, one from each respective age group. Academy players will be placed in a local Gosford Football club team and the teams will play in the local winter Central Coast football competition.

Eligibility

• It’s FREE to join the Academy with support from our Academy Sponsors.
• To be eligible for selection in the Academy, players must be registered with Gosford City Football Club.
• To qualify for the Academy, players must go through a selection process. Selection will be made during the 2 Grading Sessions for each age group.

Selection

16 players will be selected from each age group to form the SAP Academy Squad. Selections will be made at the conclusion of the Club Grading process and positions will be offered to players individually.

Selection considerations will be given to:

• player skill
• attitude
• commitment to training attendance

There is no need to apply for the SAP Academy, all players registered with GCFC will be assessed during the Grading sessions.