Mini Marauders: Reception and up
Development training begins for boys and girls from reception year onwards.
Existing club coaches hold regular sessions to get children involved in the basics of football, while having fun.
Latest news
We are currently at full capacity for the start of the 2026-27 season, and will be contacting existing attendees to confirm the autumn/winter training arrangements.
Unless you have formally been invited, please do not turn up on spec. We have to keep to very strict capacity limits at the sports hall we hire, and also need to ensure we have enough coaches at each session, relevant to the children attending.
We plan a new intake of reception-aged boys and girls in April/May 2027, when the sessions will return to our outdoor grass pitches.
If you have already enquired and your child is going into reception in September 2026, we will be letting you know about the April 2027 sessions soon. We have no capacity before then. Sorry for any disappointment.
Future
The eventual aim is to form teams, once the children reach under-sevens age.
Our coaches are all FA or UEFA qualified and base the training on FA guidance for how to develop young players.
Every session will include:
- Movement – in each session, the children should be enjoying moving and understanding how their body works. This could be running, jumping, or dancing. The possibilities are endless.
- Skills – they should also be developing their skills. This could be catching a ball, creating imaginary scenarios, or working on their dribbling skills.
- Play – each session should have play at its heart.
Once the players develop over the course of the sessions (September to April usually), we look to start teams )from under-sevens) upwards, ready for the following football season.
This relies on our development coaches working with enthusiastic parents for them to eventually become coaches and team managers themselves.
Managers and coaches don’t have to be parents, but it is most common for one or both coaches to have children in the team, hence their involvement in the first place.
In order to coach kids, coaches/managers MUST have the correct Football Association qualifications, not just in the practicalities of training football, but to adhere with very strict safeguarding regulations and first aid requirements, for obvious reasons.
We will, of course, help potential coaches every step of the way towards those qualifications.
Coaching kids is a privilege and we take it very seriously. You can have an incredibly positive impact on a lot of children’s lives, while also enjoying some of life’s most fulfilling experiences as you see your team develop and grow.
Read more about qualifications and starting a team, together with other useful advice and information on coaching.
Prestwich Marauders FC
Founded 1972