About AFC Hiltingbury..... a FA Charter Standard Club
We are a community football club, founded in 1990 and based in the Chandler 's Ford area of Hampshire. The clubs' “goal” is to provide a framework in which the children of the local community can develop their football prowess.
Throughout the years, our club, AFC Hiltingbury, has become renowned for good sportsmanship, excellent team spirit and above all, a club that cares and provides the right ethos for the children to develop and improve their football skills.
Currently we have 12 teams playing across three local leagues: The Eastleigh and District Mini Soccer League, the Southampton Tyro League and the Southampton Youth League. The age groups covered range from Under 8 to Under 18.
AFC Hiltingbury is a F.A. Charter Standard club. This ensures better coaching for all the teams, since, under F.A. Charter Standard, all teams must be coached by qualified coaches. At the present time, out of the 12 existing teams, we have 9 coaches with Level 1 F.A. Coaching certificates and 3 currently holding the level 2 coaching certificate. Our Head Coach, Tony Thacker works closely with managers to ensure that coaching requirements are meet. In addition, many of our teams employ fully qualified coaches to take training sessions.
In April 2004 we were delighted to announce that Sparks Ellison, the Chandlers Ford based independent estate agent, agreed to sponsor the entire club. This has given AFC Hiltingbury a new lease of life and we are actively seeking to expand our team base and promote our vision of how a community football club should be run. Whilst the sponsorship is initially for three years, both parties are looking forward to forming a mutually beneficial partnership in the Chandlers Ford community.
Our aim is to now begin girls team from U11 upwards and to begin a senior team so that once our players have passed through the youth leagues we can offer an established team in the senior leagues.
AFC Hiltingbury a community club run for the benefit of the players........
Ian Oliver - Chairman
If you are interested in finding out more about the club or a particular team please do contact either:
Chairman : |
Ian Bonnon | Email Ian.B |
Vice Chairman : |
Ian Oliver | Email Ian |
Treasurer : |
Tina Dawkins | |
Club Secretary : |
Phil White | Email Phil |