How To Start A Football Team

HI, my name is Matthew Dilworth. I am a Saturday Intermediate League goalkeeper and I also run and manage my own Sunday league side. Today, I am going to take you through some football basics and help you get started.

How to start a football team. The main thing is that you need to consider when starting a local football side, most importantly some can't be underestimated. This is a type of commitment that you as the organizer have to put into this.

You are going to need a good squad of players, not just mates that just turn wanting to up every week and kick about. It becomes more involved in that. You need financial commitment and you need obviously a league to play.

And so as players, you want to have a good healthy squad. With mine, I have got about 20 players playing for my side. It always helped because at the start and the end of each season, we have holidays and bits and pieces like that.

You always have to call players, I always have 11 to put out, because there is nothing more embarrassing than turning up on a Sunday and only having nine or ten players. Financially, it will help if you find a sponsor. The cost of going and playing local Sunday football are increasing.

You have pitch fields, kick balls, medical bags, water bottles, paying the referee every week. It soon adds up, pitches can cost anything from 12 to 15, 16 hundred pounds a season, referees, thirty quilt a game. You need decent footballs to play with and training balls and it all adds up.

So, if you can find a sponsor, obviously that helps to give you a sort of founding. Other than that, you need players and want them to be involved. They need to be prepared to put their hands in their pocket and help to commit themselves, and players signing on fee and something each week to help sustain the club.

Once this has all gone and you know you have the basis of a good side, you need to contact local leagues. Personally, I would suggest contacting more than one local league because mostly now, it's interview. Make sure that you got the basis and make sure that you are not going to be in a couple of months.

Make sure you got the financial commitment, you got the players and all the things that I have just mentioned. Apply to more than one, go and speak to them all and we would be lucky if we are accepted to more than one. I would say pick and choose to what league you want to go in.

Those are probably the basics that can help you to start up a Sunday side, and if you follow those and have the time and commitment to put into it, then it could be a success. .