We appreciate you may not know a great deal about our club, so here is an overview.
AEK Youth FC was formed in 2006 and provides youth football to the local community regardless of ethnicity and is based in LB Enfield. The club has consciously not grown rapidly like other local youth teams, instead preferring to spend time to develop and focus on each individual player at the club both in a footballing and social sense & whilst there are 60 players across 3 teams, there is a community feeling across the club where all teams, parents, players & coaches know each other, look out for each other and are all striving to achieve the same goal as a collective. Our approach to the game, our behaviour on and off the pitch is consistent and this possible due to our size and the buy in of everyone at the club. Whilst the club is ‘smaller’ than most, it has a very solid foundation with a strong and driven committee, the prestigious FA Standard Chartered Club status, fully audited accounts, superb training facilities and all the coaches are FA qualified including Dave C our club coach who has the pro Uefa qualification, DBS checked and have Emergency 1st Aid qualifications.
The 3 key principles which are followed by all the teams are:
1. Have Fun
We are keen to ensure all our players have fun, play football with a smile on their faces & enjoy training and matches.
2. Develop Football Ability
To improve technique/skills & match situations.
3. Listen-Learn-Respect – Encourage-Support
The foundations of the club which we work hard collectively to adhere to.
The club is also very passionate about its charity support & in the past sent football shirts to Africa, supported Noah’s Ark Hospice and Nikki Christou’s Butterfly AVM Charity.
From a club perspective last season, once again the boys all excelled on and off the pitch. All our teams finished strongly in their respective divisions & received high fair play scores from the other teams which for AEK is as important as winning trophies.
Next season 2023/24 AEK Youth FC will have 3 teams: at, 2x U15s and 1x U18s .
This season 2022/23 has been a very successful season with both the U14s and U16s winning trophies. The U14s reached two cup finals and successfully won the prestigious Middlesex County Trophy. The U16s tasted success too by winning the WFL Junior League Cup.
Well done & thank you to all the teams, coaches, parents & carers for making AEK the great club it is!