Alexandra Park Youth FC

About APY

Alexandra Park Youth Football Club (APYFC) is a non-profit community club, managed and operated by volunteers. We provide football for boys and girls from U8 to U18 in and around Haringey, with a pathway into adult football at Alexandra Park FC.

Who we are

Accreditation

APY is a 3-Star England Football accredited club, awarded in 2025. 3-Star England Football Accreditation is the highest level of recognition awarded by The FA to grassroots clubs that provide comprehensive, inclusive, and sustainable playing opportunities across all pathways.

Our ethos

Together with Alexandra Park F.C. we aim to offer local competitive football and coaching and beyond that, social involvement to young people who live in and around Haringey that involves;

  • High-quality, age-appropriate professional coaching in line with FA guidelines to support player development in the long term
  • Structured, competitive football appropriate to all ability levels, played in a safe and friendly environment.
  • A challenging, supportive learning environment
  • An expectation of good behaviour & respect for others
  • Encouragement that players try their best and make the most of their abilities

Youth to Adult Transition

Alexandra Park F.C. fields adult teams that play across all divisions of the Southern Amateur Football League and each year a number of APYFC players [across all ability levels] make the transition from youth to adult football within the Alexandra Park Club.

APYFC aims to run multiple teams per age group at 11-a-side football that will compete & challenge for honours across all divisions of the WFL.

The Coaching and Playing priorities for these age groups includes;

  • Ensuring coaching is practical & relevant to ability levels
  • Appropriate tactical instruction
  • Position specific practise
  • Player self reflection and analysis and discipline
  • Encouragement of creativity

APYFC aims to deliver through coaching, practise and matches a Positive Learning Environment for all young footballers and supports the FA initiatives of ‘non-competitive’ Leagues as adopted by the WFL & the CGL.

Coaching and Playing priorities for these age groups includes;

  • “The A, B, C’s” – development of Agility, Balance & Co-ordination
  • Encouragement of creativity & risk taking through decision making
  • Opportunities for success for all players
  • Focus on individual needs of each player
  • Opportunities to play – positional rotation & fair/equal playing time
  • Adoption of “Playing Policy” agreed at team level at the start of the season

Governance and volunteering

The club runs entirely on parent and community volunteers. In March 2026 the club secretary listed these current vacancies (draft, to be confirmed before publishing):

  • Welfare and safeguarding
  • Pathway to adult football (suits parents of U15+ teams)
  • GDPR compliance
  • Inclusion and Diversity Officer
  • Trophies (end-of-season awards and internal tournaments)
  • Boys and Girls trials (March to April)
  • Treasurer (shadowing the current treasurer)
  • Event help (social events and end-of-season tournaments)

Interested? Please get in touch.

Where past players went on

See our Legacy page.