Welcome to
Wakefield AFC Juniors

Work hard. Be Humble. Believe.

About Us

About our club

Wakefield AFC Juniors are the junior section of Wakefield AFC semi-pro club who currently play in NCEL Division 1 (Tier 10 of the football league).

Wakefield AFC Juniors was formed in May 2023 by the amalgamation of Robin Hood JFC and 2 Teams from Carlton Athletic JFC.

We are affiliated to the West Riding County Football Association and play our games in the Garforth Junior Football Leagues (GJFL) and Selby & District leagues.

Wakefield AFC Juniors are an FA Chartered Standard Club as well as a Kick It Out Equality Chartered Club. We pride ourselves in ensuring we maintain and develop our standards, ethics and diversity.

Our 11 a-side teams play in the fantastic surroundings of the Coach Ground that we share with Robin Hood AFC and our 5v5, 7v7 & 9v9 play at the majestic Sharp Lane Ground.

As well as providing some of the best facilities, environment and coaching in the local area, our club also works within local communities, charities, organisations and local business to improve the lives and opportunities for all through football !

All this is provided from a self funded junior club with a group of un-paid volunteers who give up lots of their own time and have a passion for football, community and most of all seeing our young players develop as footballers, whilst becoming respectful, honest and humble young people whilst having fun playing the beautiful game.

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A message from the Management Committee...

As we venture into the 2025/26 season the committee, coaches and managers have been very busy during the summer.

Signing on 200+ players was a massive feat ahead of the start of the season along with affiliation to ensure all teams are setup to play

ahead of the first weekend in September, securing new equipment, kits, extra grass pitches and West Riding FA for all the teams to play and

train on, plus retaining and adding to the winter training facilities. We have also adopted TeamFeePay as our new system to allow the club to

collect subs, manage member registration and verification, raise and track incidents and ensure we are setup to succeed with better structure processes and guardrails to ensure the kids are the focus of everything we do, providing a safe environment for them to play football

The club will be holding a number of social and fundraising events during the season, you may not know this, but the players subscriptions doesnt cover all our outgoing annual costs and therefore fund raising is an important part of running a non-profit volunteering grassroots club ! We plan to host a Football Gala for the younger teams and of course a Christmas raffle to help bridge the funding gap and enable us to provide the very best of everything for all our teams and players. On top of this during the month of October we will be collecting goods to donate to the local Foodbanks in Wakefield and donating Easter goods to the Children’s Ward of Pinderfields Hospital. We need all teams to get involved to help the local community.

Being part of Wakefield AFC is to create a pathway for our players to not just get into open age football but Semi Professional Football. To help this pathway we need to encourage the players to get down to watch the First Team, so they start dreaming of one day gracing the same pitch. All Under 16’s are free entry, free car parking so no excuses to start filling the stands with the future generation and cheering on the First Team who love the support from the juniors.

Finally, please join our social media sites (Facebook, Twitter & Instagram) that give constant updates about what is happening within the Junior section and also up to date match information regarding Wakefield AFC first team.

We are one club that will continue to put the players first and as a Junior Section we will strive to do our very best ! Thank you for your support.

Iain Trearty

Secretary

Wakefield AFC Juniors