About Hook United Youth Football Club:

Since 1987 the club has been run by successive teams of volunteers focussed on providing a structured approach to enabling, encouraging and promoting youth football in Hook and its surrounding area.

Youth football helps promote an active, healthy lifestyle. It creates bonds and friendships throughout the local community. We aim to encourage as many young people as possible into football. The multi-team mini-soccer format, for the under 7 to under 10 age groups, helps us achieve this. It means that larger numbers of girls and boys can play together in a mixed, less competitive, format.

We also have a thriving and rapidly growing girls’ squad covering a number of age groups. All girls currently train together, and we have one team playing at the under14 age group in the 2006/7 season.

For 11-a-side football we have a two-tiered approach for most age groups with multiple teams per age group. This enables the more advanced players to play at the highest level available to them via HUYFC. Importantly it also enables later developers to continue to play, train and to progress as they mature.

Teams play, on average, 20 competitive games during a season in the North East Hants Youth League (NEHYL), which runs from September to April. Matches are typically played within a 20 mile radius of Hook.

Our season is rounded off with an Awards BBQ, with every player receiving a membership memento. There are individual awards for improving players and outstanding performers.

In 2004 HUYFC was awarded FA Charter Standard Club status.

With over 300 members, HUYFC is one of the largest FA Charter Standard Clubs for girls' and boys' football in the North Hampshire area.

The Charter sets out, as it suggests, a set of standards that covers all aspects of the club such as finance, the number of FA qualified coaches, parent behaviour, and most importantly child protection that a club must achieve and adhere to.

Players - enjoy your football, and be proud of your club.

Players' parents, please remember it's amateur youth football!
 

Our mission:

• To use the power of football to help contribute towards a vibrant community in Hook
• To increase the participation, quality and enjoyment of football for all the community
• Football Education – providing all children between the ages of 7 years (school year 2) and 17 years with a quality introduction to football
• Football for life – providing everyone with a clear lifelong journey in the participation and facilitation of local football and its associated benefits whether it be:
• Playing, coaching or refereeing
• Organisational management, groundsmanship, first-aid development or just simply supporting!
   

Hook community involvement

• Around 300 local boys and girls
• Over 50 Managers, Coaches and General Helpers
• Over 1,500 local parents and friends of the club (includes ex-players and their families)
• Relationships with:
• Hook Parish Council
• Hook Cricket Club
• Robert Mays School
• Hook Junior School
• Lord Wandsworth School
• RAF Base at Odiham
• Financial help from:
  George Wimpey, EDS, Hook Tandoori, Rawlings
   

Achievements

• NEHYL Cup finalists and winners, league and divisional champions, promoted teams, trophy and tournament winners
• FA National ‘Fair Play Award’ winners
• Unique record: NEHYL League & Cup, Hampshire Cup ‘Treble winners’ - 1 team
• Two Ex-HUYFC players turned professional during 2005/6 season
   

For a full list of achievements by team, click on our hall of fame page.