WORTLEY BOYS SIGNS FOR LEEDS UNITED

Wortley FC Under 13's Boys team forward, Peter Chidrick, has been recently been offered a four year contract by Leeds United. Peter, who also plays for Leeds City Boys, joined the Under 13's age group at the start of the season and has bagged 13 goals in formidable partnership with fellow co-striker Anthony Doyle. Between them they have scored 39 goals in league and cup competitions this season. Our best wishes go to Peter and we hope that he goes on to make a success of the opportunity which he throughly deserves.

WORTLEY FC ON YORKSHIRE RADIO

Wortley FC attended the studios of Yorkshire Radio today to record a 15 minute interview to talk about the background of our football club, how it has developed over the years, what it offers the community of West Leeds and also promote up and coming activities. The interview was recorded at the Elland Road studios on Friday with Wortley FC General Secretary Roy Kearsley and Under 16's Girls Manager Robert Greaves in attendance. Robert spoke about the up and coming Under 16's Girls tour to Denmark in the summer of 2010 and asked for sponsorship to provide funding to support the trip, whilst Roy spoke of the origins of the club, it's progress and future aspirations in the comining seasons. 
Yorkshire Radio presenter and "Wortley lad" Jonny Buchan fired the questions. The recording will go out on air within the next couple of weeks for a five day period and the interview will be streamed on the website shortly afterwards. Further details of when the interview will go out on air will be published on the website. 

UNDER 13's CRUISE INTO CHALLENGE CUP SEMI FINALS

Wortley Under 13's Boys kept on track of a possible treble trophy campaign with a compelling 6-0 win over Shadwell United in the 1/4 finals of the Garforth League Challenge Cup. Goals from Connor Hodgson (2), Peter Chidrick, Dominik Debowski, Anthony Doyle and an own goal ensured that the team progressed into the semi finals. The team, who have reached this stage of the competition for the last three seasons, are currently top of the Garforth League Division 1 and are also in the 1/4 finals of the Millennium Cup where the final is played at Elland Road.

UNDER 7's TRAIN AT LEEDS UNITED's THORP ARCH TRAINING GROUND

Our Under 7's team were recently invited to Leeds United's Thorp Arch training ground to participate in a 1 1/2 hour training session delivered by the Under 12's Leeds United Academy coach. Sixteen lucky players had the privelege of training at the same facilities as the Leeds United players. The session was made possible, following an offer to all Garforth League affiliated clubs with Under 7's teams, by Leeds United's Head of Recruitment Terry Potter.
The team were transported to the training complex in a coach provided by local travel company Airline Connections and many parents and grandparents were in attendance. A second visit has been arranged for Saturday 6th February for the remaining players in the age group.
The club would like to thank Terry Potter and the coaching team at Leeds United for a valuable coaching session and a memorable experience for the players (and parents !!!) which they will never forget.
Photos from the training session can be viewed in the Photo Gallery. 

AIRLINE CONNECTION SUPPORT WORTLEY FC FUNDRAISING

Every year for the last six years Air-Line Connections have raised money for various children’s charities. This is done by taking a full size Sleigh out for 12 days over Christmas with Santa and helpers.
Santa hands out gifts to children in the hope that parents make a small donation to the chosen charity. Normally Air-Line Connections drivers volunteer to play Santa and other members of staff do the collecting, they stand out in all weather to raise money without complaint. This year was no exception and with the help of Miss West Yorkshire (Nadia Shanahan) Air-Line Connections were out trying to raise money this year for the Wortley FC Girls Under 16's football team.Air-Line Connections heard that Wortley Girls football teams were in need of help to obtain things like football strip and equipment so decided to select them as our chosen charity for 2009.The girls of the team are hard working and enjoy the exercise as well as fresh air they get when out on the field. "This is our first sponsorship of a Female team and we are delighted to be involved with a local community team, as is Miss West Yorkshire and we hope the money raised will benefit the team particularly in the fast growing area of Girls Football".
Miss West Yorkshire says “It’s great to see children doing something productive and active” and hope that they grow stronger and go forward in all their events. 
Peter Battensby from Airline Connections said 'We are pleased to be associated with Wortley Football Club and the under 16's Girls team and wish them well'.

UNDER 11's XMAS DAY OUT AT PAINTBALLING

An excellent day out with the players and parents from the under 11s Boys was held at Delta Force paint Balling on Saturday 19th December. This helped the team learn some team building excercises whilst having fantastic fun and yes,  the lads were against parents. Unfortunatley the parents were the champions on this occasion, although the parents seemed to take most bruises home with them. Team Manager Wayne Sheldon said 'A massive thank you to the staff at Delta Force who helped make this day run so perfectly'.

LEEDS BUILDING SOCIETY INVEST IN WORTLEY JUNIORS UNDER 10's B

The Leeds Building Society supports and sponsors a lot of charities and organisations throughout the UK.
Our Under 10's B Team recently received a £250 cheque from the Leeds Building Society in Armley Town Street to purchase a new away shirt. Pictured below are members of the Under 10's B squad receiving the cheque from staff of Leeds Building Society. The building society is very supportive of the club and recently provided sponsorship for the Wortley FC Football Tournament. The club would like to thank Leeds Building Society for their continued support of the club.

The sponsorship request was supported by Michelle Capell, the Armley Branch Manager (pictured far left) who was happy to help a local community football club.

WORTLEY FC XMAS RAFFLE WINNERS LIST

The xmas raffle draw took place on Friday 11th December at Soccer City during the Wortley Football Tots Xmas Party. Lee Walkington from Halifax winner of the 1st prize is pictured below receiving the 32" LCD Digital TV from Raffle Organiser Richard Barnett. The winning ticket was sold by Under 13's Boys player Thomas Lambourne. A special thank you to all parents who donated raffle prizes as well as local supermarket store Sainsbury's and AB Auto's from Whitehall Road. There were 88 prize winners including the three main prizes. Please click here to download the full list of winners. The prizes will be distributed via each age group manager who should contact Richard Barnett to make arrangements for the prizes to be collected. The raffle raised over £4000 with most of the proceeds from the raffle being retained by the age group.

NISA LOCAL SPONSOR WORTLEY FC UNDER 13's BOYS TEAM

Our Under 13's Boys recently received a new Macron kit courtesy of sponsorship received from local supermarket, Nisa Local on Whitehall Road, Wortley. The team are pictured here with employees of Nisa Local prior to the Challenge Cup game vs Bramley Juniors which Wortley went onto win 8-1.. The sponsorship was made possible due to the club being a registered charity. The team and Wortley Football Club would like to thank Nisa Local for their generous support of the Under 13's Boys Age Group. The team are currently top of Division 1 and into the 3rd round of the Leeds & District Millennium Cup and the 1/4 finals of the Garforth League Challenge Cup.  

WORTLEY FC UNDER 7's PLAY INAUGURAL MATCH

Our new Under 7's team, managed & coached by Ashley Kearsley and Andrew Duckworth, played their inaugural match against Hunslet Juniors Under 7's at the Hunslet Club for Boys & Girls last weekend. The team was setup over the last few months and was facilitated by a grant from the Football Foundation which will support school based projects to develop a new Under 7's team for the next three seasons and encourage Year 1 pupils to become active in football and join a well established club. Prior to the match the team received their new Nike Kit, in the club colours, which was funded from a separate Football Foundation grant which was awarded to the age group and displays the Football Foundation logo. The club badge will be added to the kit within the next week. The Under 7's played two matches against a Hunslet team which had previously played 7 friendlies. The first game did not truly reflect the eventual scoreline and the second game Hunslet Juniors edged out Wortley by the odd goal in five. Both teams played well to say that this was their first time that they had played a football match outside of the training environment. It is also pleasing to report that some members of the age group had progressed from our Wortley Football Tots sessions which are for the Under 6's which are held on a Saturday morning (during school term) at Swallow Hill Community College. Since the first training session, the age group now has 25 regular members and they train at Swallow Hill Community College on a Wednesday/Saturday. Their home matches are based at Whingate Primary School. A number of local companies have also pledged sponsorship offers to provide the children with raincoats and training equipment. This will mean that the age group is fully equipped as they embark on their first season, and hopefully many seasons, with Wortley FC.