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| Shetland Girls' Football |
 Shetland Women’s Football Club is pleased to announce that we have been awarded a grant of £4696 from Awards for All Scotland to develop girls’ football in Shetland. With this grant we’ve bought footballs, training equipment, a new football strip, training wear and booked the Gilbertson Park Games hall for training sessions. The timetable for these sessions is: beginning Monday 8th Feb 6 – 7pm and Wednesday 10th Feb 6 – 7pm until the end of February, we’ll canvas opinion on the days/times for March onwards.
These sessions will be free, will be open to any girls under 18 and are open to all abilities, so it doesn’t matter if you’re an experienced player or have never kicked a ball in your life. The sessions will be led by fully qualified coaches and there will always be a female member of the coaching team there, parents/carers are of course very welcome to come along.
Currently younger girls who are interested in football have to join in with the boys, which is ok at under 8/10’s but when they get to the 12’s the girls seem to drop out. The Women’s football here is aimed at over 14’s/adults and it can be a bit intimidating for younger players to join an existing adult setup, so we’re looking to bridge the gap here and give younger players a chance to develop their skills and gain a bit of experience with their peer group before joining the adult football.
There’s a couple of things in the pipeline for the players to aim for, one is that Deeside U15 Girls are coming up in July so we would be looking to form a Shetland U16 Girls team to play them and we’re also exploring the possibility of having a Junior Intercounty in August/September?
Now there’s little point in having all this shiny new equipment if there’s no one to use it! So please could you pass the word to your daughters, granddaughters, nieces, sisters, cousins, friends or whoever you can think of to come along and give football a go? They don’t need to have aspirations to make the Shetland team, if they just want a fun kick-about with their mates then that’s fine with us.
Remember these sessions are free and all players need to bring is their own personal playing kit.
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 JohnW on January 22 2010 11:05:50 ·
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| 2009 AGM |
Shetland Womens FC are holding their AGM on Sunday 22nd November at 6pm in the Shooting Gallery at Clickimin Center
Main items on the agenda will be the election of a Chairperson, Treasurer and Secretary, for the first time an honorarium will be paid for these postions. We would welcome anyone with fresh ideas on how to promote Womens football in Shetland to come along. |
JohnW on October 30 2009 13:47:43
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| Winter Training |
Winter Training
Starting Sunday 18th October from 7pm – 9pm at Clickimin North Pitch (the one at the running track) open to all, new players very welcome. Cost will be £15 for all sessions, or £2 per session, this will run until Christmas.
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JohnW on October 14 2009 14:40:03
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| Intercounty Match |
This years Intercounty match is being played in Shetland at the Gilbertson Park on Saturday 22nd August with a 12:00 kick off. Spectators are more than welcome to come along and cheer on wir lasses.
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JohnW on August 20 2009 10:51:29
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| Updated Training Schedule |
The training schedule for the Intercounty games have been finalised as follows:
Wednesday 15th July 7pm - 9pm at Clickimin Hockey Park (training)
Wednesday 22nd July 7pm - 9pm at Clickimin Hockey Park (training)
Sunday 2nd August 12am - 2pm at Gilbertson Park (training/game)
Sunday 9th August 12am - 2pm at Gilbertson Park (training/game)
Sunday 16th August 12am - 2pm at Gilbertson Park (training/game)
Wednesday 19th August 7pm - 9pm at Clickimin South (training/game)
A good turn out is requested as there's still places up for grabs in both 'A' and 'B' squads, remember if we can't see you train/play then we can't select you!
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JohnW on July 15 2009 20:46:58
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| Intercounty 2009 |
It's nearly that time of year again! The Intercounty games will be held at Clickimin South this year on Saturday 22nd August, with the 'B' game kicking off at 12:30 and the 'A' game at 3pm.
Training is starting Wednesday 1st July from 7 - 9pm at Clickimin South and a good attendance is requested.
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JohnW on June 29 2009 15:37:44
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| Gramsbergen 2009 |
Shetland have returned from the Gramsbergen football tournament in the Netherlands, finishing a credible 14th out of 20 in the 'B' team competition.
Noteable achievements being that Shetland were the only team that the Tournament winners (Dutch side Bruchterveld) couldn't score against and winning the Fair Play Trophy.
First lot of photos here
Karen MacKelvies take on it all plus some brief match reports here and some of Karen's photos here |
JohnW on June 19 2009 18:51:04
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| Shetland Girls Under 16's |
| Shetland have been invited to send a Girls Under 16's team (girls born on or after 1st January 1993) to the Orkney Football Festival on 1st and 2nd August 2009. We have an initial training session at Brae Astro Turf pitch on Saturday 21st March from 11am - 1pm, further sessions will be arranged after the holidays. All under 16 girls are welcome to come along, these sessions are free all equipment will be supplied and all you need to bring is your own personal playing equipment. These sessions will be led by SWFC Development Coach John Ward |
JohnW on March 19 2009 21:59:11
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| Indoor 4-a-side tournament |
| Scalloway game hall has been booked for our annual indoor tournament 11am to 3pm on Sunday March 15th. Come along as a team or individuals and we'll find a team for you. Everyone welcome and the more the merrier! |
JohnW on March 12 2009 12:44:13
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| Scottish Cup 2nd Round Draw |
| Shetland have been handed a tough second round draw, playing 1st division side Celtic B in Glasgow on Febuary 1st. |
JohnW on December 09 2008 09:04:52
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| Emergency Island Games Meeting |
There's an emergency meeting being held on Sunday 30th November at 6:30pm at Islesburgh House to discuss the forthcoming Island Games, squad members are to make every effort to attend.
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JohnW on November 26 2008 15:03:15
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Shetland Womens fc are pleased to announce the launch of our official website. Over the coming months this site will feature news, match reports, information about all the womens football teams playing in the Shetland league and cup competitions, as well as regular updates on the County teams.
Really good photos of Gramsbergen trip
