Shetland Girls' Football

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Shetland Women’s Football Club is pleased to announce that we have been awarded a grant of £4696 from Awards for All Scotland to develop girls’ football in Shetland. With this grant we’ve bought footballs, training equipment, a new football strip, training wear and booked the Gilbertson Park Games hall for training sessions. The timetable for these sessions is: beginning Monday 8th Feb 6 – 7pm and Wednesday 10th Feb 6 – 7pm until the end of February, we’ll canvas opinion on the days/times for March onwards (we realise that 1hr sessions are not ideal but it was all we could get).

These sessions will be free, will be open to any girls under 18 and are open to all abilities, so it doesn’t matter if you’re an experienced player or have never kicked a ball in your life. The sessions will be led by fully qualified coaches and there will always be a female member of the coaching team there, parents/carers are of course very welcome to come along.

 

Currently younger girls who are interested in football have to join in with the boys, which is ok at under 8/10’s but when they get to the 12’s the girls seem to drop out. The Women’s football here is aimed at over 14’s/adults and it can be a bit intimidating for younger players to join an existing adult setup, so we’re looking to bridge the gap here and give younger players a chance to develop their skills and gain a bit of experience with their peer group before joining the adult football.

 

There’s a couple of things in the pipeline for the players to aim for, one is that Deeside U15 Girls are coming up in July so we would be looking to form a Shetland U16 Girls team to play them and we’re also exploring the possibility of having a Junior Intercounty in August/September?

Now there’s little point in having all this shiny new equipment if there’s no one to use it! So please Shetlinkers, could you pass the word to your daughters, granddaughters, nieces, sisters, cousins, friends or whoever you can think of to come along and give football a go? They don’t need to have aspirations to make the Shetland team, if they just want a fun kick-about with their mates then that’s fine with us.

 

Remember these sessions are free and all players need to bring is their own personal playing kit, any questions or comments please email or ask here as we’re quite happy to discuss this in an open forum.

 

info@shetlandwomensfc.com