The Spartans Way
The welfare of the child comes first.
Our aim is to provide the opportunity for children and young people to play football in a safe environment, and to be treated as such - not as small adults.
Children should be given a fair chance to participate, compete and win. As a club we will constantly seek to stretch and challenge the abilities of the players with the aim of developing them to play football at the highest level. Players are expected to be punctual, have good standards of behaviour and be ready to listen, learn and practise.
Participation at all times is encouraged with an emphasis on skill development, athleticism and the development of the child socially as well as in a sporting context. Our aim is for players to learn life skills and strong values for later life. A win at all costs attitude is discouraged - competition is encouraged but not to the detriment of the development of skill, speed, stamina, strength and suppleness.
Player Pathway
We work in Partnership with the Scottish Youth FA to follow the Player Pathway which takes a player-centred approach to developing the football potential of a young child.
The pathway is progressive, coherent and challenging. At Spartans FC Youth we follow the pathway carefully and don’t fast forward or miss out any of the development stages.
Our boys squads play Fun 4s at U8, Super 5s at U9, Soccer Sevens at U10 & U11 and 9-aside at U12. From U13 and up our squads move to 11-aside games and we have teams at each age group U13, 14, 15, 16, 17 & 19.
Our girls section operates with regional teams from ages U8s to U18s, and an SFA NextGen development league at U13, U15 & U17.
Our ultimate aim is to produce players for our Adult teams and beyond.