St Albans City Youth Football Club, working in partnership with Real Coaching run a Disabled Football in the Community Project (DFITC). . The project is set up to help disabled people to discover their sporting potential.

Disabled Football in the Community aims to provide grass roots football to disabled children and adults of all abilities along with a talent identification programme to enable players to progress to the National Disability Teams

However the scheme is also concerned with the overall development of both children and adults within the community, using football as a tool to improve their personal and social skills. DFITC works very closely with Primary and Middle Schools and Day care centers throughout St.Albans and Hemel Hempstead.

Heathlands school for deaf children

Butterwick Day Service

Woodfield School

St.Albans City youth has already introduced a successful Disability football section.

We started back in December 2005 with only 5 players, and now we have 20 players training every week, who have all kinds of disabilities. The 1^st team play in the London & South East Ability Counts Football League, against teams like Chelsea, Charlton, Ipswich. On new years day we was invite to do a penalty shoot out AT half time at Craven Cottage the home of Fulham F.C

We are setting up Saturday training at Highfield park for disabled footballers of all ability's. please contact register your interest

Disabled Football in the Community contacts

Disability Development Officer Daniel Rogers

01727 762843

  Or Email us at

daniel@real-coaching.co.uk  

OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH SPORT Our project will help poroved a focus for skills development and confidence building through the medium of sport and have a strong training and/or educational theme within the sporting activity though training some athleats as coaches. The roject will povide sporting equipment or facilities for disabled or disadvantaged people The facilities at the clubs Highfield Park base, Floodlit training area, changing rooms and toilets, have been designed from the outset to meet the current requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA). The project will have a high degree of community involvement getting local day Care centers, schools and local business involed.The project will help to engage children or young people at risk of crime, truancy or addiction, getting involed and helping to run the project and help them to become coaches withing the project.

DFITC mission statement is:

To enhance existing opportunities and provide new provisions in which boys and girls of all ages can participate, regardless of their ability, social status or location