Working with others to construct the best playing and learning experiences for young people to reach their potential in football & life. U12-U19
@SouthShieldsFC
Everyone at
@SouthShieldsFC
wishes the very best of luck to Joao Gomes who today begins his week long trial with
@WolvesAcademy
. Joao has developed brilliantly since joining
@SSFCacademy
and attracting the attention of PL clubs is testament to his hard work 👊
#Opportunities
Everyone connected with
@SSFCacademy
wishes Graham all the very best for the future. We will be forever grateful for all that he brought to the Academy squads, the players and coaches.
Graham you are legend. Thank you.
Fantastic effort by our boys tonight to keep this FA youth cup adventure alive. Huge thanks to everyone who came out to support... That really was an incredible turnout for a youth game 👏🙌👏
@southshieldsfc
fans you really are the best! Roll on round 3 😃
Not the score line we hoped for but a really impressive display from our academy boys.A performance that perhaps deserved more but it's an art finding the net & tonight we were unable to. Great to see so many young players playing with confidence & making most of this opportunity
Congratulations to Matty Wade who has been selected to play for England U18 Schoolboys. A fantastic achievement that demonstrates that hard work really does pay off. Reminder that Matty missed almost the entire 2018/19 season due to a serious injury 💪
#mindset
#NeverGiveUp
Fantastic to see Dominic Agnew, Matty Wade and Will Jenkins performing so well for the first team tonight against York City 👏👏👏 Well done lads! Keep raising your game 👊
Making the most of opportunities
@SouthShieldsFC
📸
@KevWilson19
Brilliant afternoon for our academy lads to visit
@NUFC
academy to play against their U18’s. Some fantastic football from both sides in sweltering conditions ⚽️☀️
Full Time: Chester 2-1 Shields.
We depart the FA Youth Cup in the First Round Proper. We wish
@CFCYouthAcademy
the best of luck for the rest of the season.
As an academy we feel very fortunate to have a management team that believe in promoting and creating opportunities for our youth players 🙏
An academy is only as strong as the opportunity at the end!!
@SouthShieldsFC
#BelieveInYOUth
Well deserved league debut for
@karlross_
tonight👏So much talent in academy & great to be part of an ambitious club that will give young players an opportunity.
@SSFCacademy
key to future club success. No better time for aspirational young players to get involved
@SouthShieldsFC
It’s been a really enjoyable two days in the capital and we leave with great memories, plenty of learning and further signs of development and growth within the group. Good luck to
@FulhamFC
who were a class act on the night. As were our lads!! BetterNeverStops 👊
@SouthShieldsFC
Superb performance from our academy U16’s today to reach a National Cup semifinal. The lads ran out 6-2 winners⚽️
Safe journey home to Wirral Schools FA who contributed to a superb spectacle for a good crowd inside the 1st Cloud
For the third week in a row our academy have notched another twelve goals across their games in
@ECFA12
and
@nationallgeU19
competitions. Some really intelligent play and excellent finishes across the pitches today 👏👏👏
#BetterNeverStops
WE ARE THROUGH TO THE SECOND ROUND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FOUR YEARS!!!!
After an emphatic first half, the young Mariners defended expertly in the second to earn their name in the hat for the next round!
Well played
@LancasterCityFC
and all the best 🤝
@SouthShieldsFC
As we head into this period of uncertainty we’d like to wish everyone connected with the academy and beyond the very best of health. Take good care of yourself and everyone around you!! Together we will beat this and come back stronger 🙏♥️
Full-time: Shields 3-0 York
Dan Savage, Matty Telfer and James Davison fire us into the First Round Proper of the FA Youth Cup!
A safe journey back down the A19 to
@YCFCAcademy
and all the best in the remainder of your season.
📸
@KevWilson19
@SouthShieldsFC
#SSFC
A good start to the competitive football season. Some bright stuff today, particularly the 15mins after half time and still loads to work on. Goals from Jenkins, Hodgson and a corker from Errington 👊
#BetterNeverStops
Well 2019 was a lot of fun!! Massive shout out to everyone we’ve connected with this year 🥂 We feel very lucky to mix with such awesome people every day and in 2019 we’ve shared some incredible memories together. Thank you 🙏 See you next decade
#BetterNeverStops
As another wonderful year draws to a close and we look excitedly towards 2020 we'd like to wish everyone connected with
@SSFCacademy
&
@SouthShieldsFC
the very merriest of Christmases. Thank you for your immense support and contribution throughout 2019. See you in the new year!🎅
A hard earned 1-0 win this afternoon against a competitive Halifax Town U19s. Only goal of the game came from David Allason. Well done to all involved - there was some really positive team play at times. Thanks also to
@WallsendBoysFC
for being top top hosts!
Next game Friday 👊
Looking forward to wearing these across the academy in 2020/21. Counting down the days until we are back together, on the grass, and doing what we love to do!! The time away will only make us hungrier
#BetterNeverStops
@SouthShieldsFC
Full-time: Gateshead 2-4 Shields
The young mariners progress through to the next round of the FA Youth Cup 🏆
Best of luck to Gateshead for the remainder of their season.
@ideventphoto
📸
Well done to our Academy U13’s who lifted the Northumberland League Cup today. 2-2 was the final score with the young Mariners coming out on top in the shootout ⚽️⚽️
#BetterNeverStops
Fantastic news for the whole club as
@MylesBoney
completes his permanent move to
@SouthShieldsFC
. Myles is a great role model for all young GKs within the
@SSFCacademy
and
@SSFCfoundation
. His attitude, performances and support will help inspire many more future SSFC No1s 🧤🧤
This time tomorrow we'll be off & running in our FAYC tie v Lincoln City. Fab hearing about travelling support that are making the effort to support the squad on next stage of their journey. We feel privileged to represent a club that means so much to the community👏
#BeThe12thMan
Lots of great progress made across the academy in 2018. Massive thank you to everyone who has made a positive contribution towards supporting young players at the club this year!
Time to up our game in2019 in our quest to get more youngsters positively impacting the first team👊
𝑶𝒖𝒓 𝑷𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒘𝒂𝒚 I An Academy is only ever as strong as the opportunity at the end of the pathway.
@SouthShieldsFC
we have managers who believe in & support youth players to make the jump!
Brilliant to see so many
@SSFCacademy
players making an impact on Friday night 👊
A really exciting time for young players to be involved with such an ambitious club. 3years ago there were 9divisions between SShields & Sunderland. From Aug the gap is likely to be only4.
@SouthShieldsFC
are on the up &
@SSFCacademy
players are going to be key to future progress
We liked this from Dennis Bergkamp 👇
As a club that values the development of young players we fully subscribe to this philosophy.
Credit.
@AndrewBrownhil
- great share 👏
A great way to start this morning with these super competitive and fun races. Our Futures Academy Y7s loved it and were wide awake by the end 🤩
Making every school day the
#BestSchoolDayEver
with
@MortimerCC
and
@SouthShieldsFC
😍
Great to see Joe Lockey (U18) and Kieran Charlton (U19) in tonight’s first team squad. Joe trained this morning before getting a call-up 🙌 Good luck to both!
Fantastic experience and opportunity for past & present academy players to showcase their potential in tonight's
@DurhamFA
final against
@Official_SAFC
at the Stadium of Light. In total 10 academy players involved and only two of the squad over 25.
#thefuture
@SouthShieldsFC
Fantastic to have six
@SSFCacademy
players featuring & impressing in tonights game. This was a really positive display from everyone on a difficult pitch. Great to see so much freedom & expression across the team.
@karlross_
doing a great Sergio Busquets impression in midfield 👏
One of our Futures Academy players made a long awaited comeback from injury yesterday... And did it in style! (Also grabbed a goal too)
#SSFC
#WeGrowTogether
A great way to kick start this exciting stage of the competitive football season. Today's 4-1 win confirms us as ECFA League winners qualifying us for the national playoffs 🏆 Thoroughly deserved for a top group of lads.
Lots still to play for!
#BetterNeverStops
Superb afternoon of youth football today⚽️
Unlucky to our Academy U15’s who lost a close game on a penalty shootout 👊🏻
Congratulations to our U16’s who progressed to the JPL National Final coming out 2-0 winners
Both sets of players have done the club proud today ⚽️👍🏻
Fantastic support for the Youth Team tonight. Huge thanks to everyone who turned out to be our
#12thMan
. Your efforts are appreciated immensely by all Academy players and staff, along with everyone connected with the club🙌 Special shout out for Dan & Kev for capturing the game🙏
Another excellent signing for the club & for our young academy players.
@jordanhunter_99
is a top role model for young players to look up to & learn from. This season we will continue to work even more closely with the first team to help make the academy experience even better 👊
Further evidence yesterday that if you work hard enough, persevere and believe in yourself there are opportunities for local young players at
@SouthShieldsFC
#InYOUthWeTrust
Delighted to be in the hat for the next round of the FA Youth Cup. Thanks everyone who came out to support us today. These games are great learning experiences and playing in-front of crowds really helps. Thanks also to
@danielprince18
for his excellent coverage of the game 👍👏
What a start to the day!
@SouthShieldsFC
CEO Lee Picton joined our
#FuturesAcademy
Y10 Football+ workshop on ‘Body Language and Introductions’.
We discussed the importance of;
👁 Eye contact
😀 Smiling
🤝 Introducing yourself
…all whilst enjoying a 🥐 and a ☕️
So,on Thursday night we compared
@karlross_
to Sergio Busquets after his display for
@SouthShieldsFC
1st team. Today
@LukeRidley8
spent his morning spraying passes like Kevin De Bruyne in an impressive team display by
@SSFCacademy
.Heres hoping we find our very own Messi this wk😉
A huge congratulations to Y8 Zac, who scored the highest number of Individual Wins in last summer’s
#Futures
World Cup!
Here he is with his award - a shirt signed by
@SouthShieldsFC
first team - presented by Headteacher, Mr Hignett.
Well done Zac 👏🏻⚽️🏆
Saturdays
@SouthShieldsFC
v
@WorkingtonAFC
postponement may have been a huge disappointment to the vast majority, but not for the 9 academy lads who enjoyed the opportunity to mix it with the first team in training and in-house 11v11. Well done to all involved
#knockinonthedoor
👊
Impressive performance today against
@Official_HUFC
in our opening National Youth Alliance fixture of the new season. A 3-1 win but most importantly positive performances throughout. Well done lads 👏👏👏
#BetterNeverStops
Fantastic day for the academy today with two impresssive wins.Max Cowburn led the U19s to an emphatic league win with his double hat-trick (6) & the U18s secured a place in ECFA League Playoff Final with a fantastic win against a very strong Hartpury College. Well done everyone👏
A very positive away display from the U18s today against our neighbours
@GatesheadFC
. 5-0 win to progress through to the next round of the ESFA National Cup.
Goals came from Will McCamley (2), Bailey Judson & Sam Hodgson, Jordan Patterson
@SouthShieldsFC
@SunCollSport
@cat4psm
Cracking day with the U17, U18 and U19s this morning, followed by the U13 and U14s this afternoon ☀️⚽️🥵 Effort levels excellent throughout despite it being about 1000 degrees
#LoveTheGame
#AcademyPathway
Huge thanks to
@jarrow_fc
for hosting us this afternoon at the fantastic Perth Green pitch👍 Really pleased with the effort & performance today. A really positive start the pre-season. Well done to everyone involved including six 16 year olds making debuts🤜💥🤛
#BetterNeverStops
We love football and we loved today. A tremendous match between two entertaining sides in front of two sets of magnificent supporters. This sport brings people together.
We don't know what the immediate future holds but we hope to see you all soon. Stay safe everyone ♥️
Tomorrow night we will be giving it our all to progress in the FA Youth Cup. We've loved the 4 games we have played in the competition so far and no one wants the run to end. We'd love you to be our 12th man by coming along to Mariners Park tomorrow night.
#OneClub
#Opportunities
Massive shout out to Minchella’s for refuelling us with ice cream today. The long walk was worth it to see Dom in a pinny (or was it a dress?) 🍦 ☀️ 👗
#BetterThanMrWhippy
Merry Christmas Everybody
To everyone who has cheered us on and supported us this season we’d like to wish you a wonderful Christmas and New Year.
We can’t wait to go again in 2022!!!
Fun night for three of our academy players who represented the first team in a competitive fixture for the first time!! Top effort lads and well done to Will Jenkins who secured the win with a goal 🙌
#opportunities
@southshieldsfc
🤜💥🤛
@SunCollSport
Great morning down on the beach today!! Players and coaches loved it 😃 It was also great to see many locals taking an interest in the lads and popping over for a chat 👍
#BeachDays
Today's results:
8-1 home victory in the National League U19 vs Harrogate Town
4-1 away victory in the ESFA National Elite U18 Cup vs Queen Ethelburga's College. This result sees us progress into the last 16 of the competition.
Well done to everyone involved.
#BetterNeverStops
It’s a 3-1 win on the road today against
@barnsleysport
to progress in the
@ECFA12
Premier League Play-Offs 👊 and a 5-2 win at home to
@HarrogateTown
in the
@nationallgeU19
💪 Well done to a great squad effort today and good luck to our opponents for the remainder of this season
Brilliant to have our U13s and U14s visiting
@SunderlandAFC
as part of their pre-season games. Thanks to
@Moore3Jordan
for organising the fixtures 🙌 We look forward to many more in the future
#BetterNeverStops
Enjoyable game this morning for our U18 and U19 players over at
@NUFC
. Thanks to
@NeilWinskill
and
@BenRDawson
for organising 👍 We wish you well for the season ahead and hope to play again in the not so distant future. Lots of exciting talent on display today!
Wishing
@BaliMumba8
every success at Norwich City following his move earlier this week. He shared some great advice to our Futures Academy players a few weeks back. Hopefully many will follow in your footsteps 👊 We
#BelieveInYOUth
#BetterNeverStops
@SouthShieldsFC
So pleased to be joining
@NorwichCityFC
👊🏾great club with an exciting future🔰 very excited to be starting the next chapter of my career here. Huge thank you to all my loved ones and friends for the support. The dream continues and the work never ends💪🏾
God is great 🙏🏾
Not long now until the big man lands, but hopefully enough time to thank our partners, sponsors & supporters for all their support during 2020. On behalf of everyone connected with
@SSFCacademy
we’d like to wish you all the very merriest of crimbos. Stay safe & keep smiling🎄🥂🎅
Great to see Kieran Charlton and Will Jenkins on the pitch tonight. Both picking up vital minutes and more experience as they push to become permanent features for
@SouthShieldsFC
#BetterNeverStops
FULL-TIME: South Shields 4-0 Stourbridge.
An impressive win under the lights secures a first round tie at home to Southport.
Safe journey home to all those connected to
@StourbridgeFC
and good luck for the rest of the season!
📸
@KevWilson19
#BuildbaseFATrophy
#SSFC
#UTM
Full-time: Shields 1-5 Grimsby
A battling performance, but our young Mariners exit the FA Youth Cup in the second round.
Congratulations to
@officialgtfc
and we wish you the best of luck in the remainder of the competition 🤝
@SouthShieldsFC
#SSFC
We've spent a great 2days settling into life
@MortimerCC
ahead of the launch of
@SouthShieldsFC
Future's Academy. The school is full of great people wanting to drive standards & help all children to be the best they can be! Proud to play our part🤝
#TogetherTowardsABrighterFuture
Did you know...
86 players will represent
@SSFCacademy
in 2020/21 across our six current age groups (U12-U14 / U17-U19). We are incredibly proud of our growth over the past three years, following the academies formation in May 2017.
Roll on the new season!!
#WeGrowTogether
Despite the shortened season we enjoyed many incredible memories together as an academy and we were fortunate to have
@KevWilson19
on hand to capture so many of our on-field highlights!! Here are some of our favourites from 2019/20. Top work as always Kev- you’re a legend! 🤜📸🤛
All over here at the home of Oxford City. The game finished South Shields 1-3 FITC. The 3rd coming in the last minute of the game.
The whole squad and coaches have done the club, town, themselves and their families proud. Fantastic achievement to get to a national final
#Proud
As the summer festival/tournament season draws to a close our U13s and U15s travelled to play at St George’s Park. In what was a really enjoyable weekend both reached the final with U13s winning on penalties and U15s losing on penalties. Both valuable experiences🤗👏 ⚽️
We were delighted to conclude a busy week of academy football by progressing through to the next round of the ESFA National Cup with a 7-0 victory against Sunderland AFCs Foundation of Light scholars. Well done on a great week lads 👏👏👏