11 a side football game

Ways to play. Home Players Ways to play 11v TraditionaI a-side matches normally take place on a Saturday, Sunday or mid week. Are you interested in entering a team into an 11v11 league? Flexible Football Leagues are being introduced across the country to provide opportunities to play a-side football for players who have dropped out of the game, struggle with regular weekend commitment, or just want to play football with less time and less fuss.

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If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. Come join our full 11 a-side game on Clapham Common, we have nets, referee's and a proper full sized pitch! We are on pitch 3 or 4, which is the pitch closest to the changing rooms - The football pitches are opposite Stormont Road, towards The Clapham Junction side of the common.

Please allow yourself minutes to walk from the station to find the pitches, which are an equal distance from Clapham Junction, Clapham Common or Clapham South stations. Have fun! Don't worry about your ability, if you haven't played 11 a-side football before, this game is all about having fun, and we will change the team if necessary to make it an even game.

The FA supports all levels of the game and in we conducted a huge survey with 37, respondents from grassroots football. Feedback from a-side clubs, leagues, volunteers, players etc was that they wanted us to stop the drop-out, ensure a referee for every game, improve facilities etc. I found it really interesting and quite disheartening to learn that so many people are dropping out of the a-side game in England.

If teams have disassembled that amounts to at least 13, players falling through the cracks of the amateur game should they be unable to find another team elsewhere, quite a staggering figure when you think about it. Without having researched reasons for the decline myself too much, one reason that did pop into my head was the rise of 5-a-side football in England.

Could this offer an explanation as to why more and more people are turning their backs on a-side, which requires more time, effort and organisation?

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