Development training begins for boys and girls from year 1 onwards.

Existing club coaches hold regular sessions to get children involved in the basics of football, while having fun.

Our latest sessions will be take place on Wednesday evenings, from 5pm to 6pm at Salford Sports Village. Find out more.

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: 

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.

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.

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.

Read more about qualifications and starting a team.