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3. Youth football


At Peckham Town Football Club we offer several different development levels of football for example:

All of our U-7’s Development Teams form part of the clubs First Touch Programme.
The programme is designed for beginners to the game.

Our U-8’s - U-11’s play 7v7 to improve the players confidence on the ball and to learn team play and basic football understanding.

Our U-12’s & U-13’s are given a choice of 9v9 to gain more tactics and a steady progression to the full size game with the more elite Boys & Girls playing 11v11.

Our Elite U12’s - Senior play 11v11 with priority on teaching full laws of the game and improving tactical and technical ability.

At Peckham Town Football Club players are developed using different size footballs for different age groups for example:

U-7’s / U-8’s / U9’s (size 3 footballs) PLUS size 2 footballs for compulsory ball skill training.

U-10’s / U-11’s / U-12’s / U-13’s / U-14’s / U15’s (size 4 ball footballs)
PLUS size 2 footballs for compulsory ball skill training.

Senior size 5 footballs
Plus size 2 footballs for compulsory ball skills training.