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 The
Youth Football set-up in Dromore coaches kids from
all over the Banbridge district and further afield.
Having formed in 2005/6 the Club has continued to
grow from strength to strength and now cater for an
impressive 200 plus kids from ages 5 to 17.
The Club currently run a number of youth football
teams. For the 2011/2012 season we will have teams
playing in the Mid
Ulster Youth League Games Development Centre as
well as the Mid
Ulster Youth League. There will also be teams
playing in the George
Best Castlereagh Youth League and Carnbane
Youth League.
The Club is also affiliated to the Northern
Ireland Boys Football Association and enters teams
into the N.I.B.F.A.
Cup each season.
In the Summer of 2009 the Club formed a link with
English Football League side Preston
North End Football Club to run a Summer Soccer
School and in total 65 of our kids took part.
In April 2010 and 2011 players from the Club travelled
across to Preston to take part in the Easter Cup.
Added to that in May 2010 players from the Club also
travelled to the Easter & Spring Football Festival
in Ayr. It is hoped that more teams will experience
these trips across the water over the coming years
as the Club develop their Youth set-up even further.
In the Spring of 2012 the Club formed a link with
English Championship side Bury
Football Club to run a Mid Term Soccer School
and in total over 100 of our kids took part. The Mid
Term Soccer School was so successful that Bury Football
Club agreed to come back again as the two Clubs aim
to strengthen the link further.
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