Brentford FC Community Sports Trust will be holding Open Trials for our Boys Football Development Centre (FDC) on Tuesday 5th April, 2016 at Swift Road Outdoor Sports Centre.

The FDC has been running for well over 15 years, with over 250 players attending our centres at Twickenham Academy and Swift Road. Run independently by the Sports Trust, it gives local talented players who attend sessions where BFCCST deliver football, a chance to be invited in to receive additional coaching. The invitation only programme offers Open Trials twice a year for players who do not attend any of our Community sessions.

The programme delivers good quality coaching in a player-centred environment to enhance the training they receive elsewhere. Goalkeepers are catered for with specialist coaches delivering their sessions. Players do not need to be playing for a grassroots club to be eligible to attend, and it does not interfere or cut across those that are. For successful trialists, they will be invited in for a more considered and detailed 6 week assessment.

If accepted into the main programme, then players will also have the chance to apply for the holiday time match programme. This involves matches against other professional club’s Community schemes such as Coventry City, MK Dons, Oxford United and Wycombe Wanderers.

The fee based training sessions take place on weekday evenings throughout school term time.

The initial trial will last 3 hours. It will include a training session followed by small sided games to assess players. It will be a relaxed environment and it will be more about seeing what each boy can do so we can get a general overview.

Players will be informed by the end of the following week whether they will be invited in. Players who are not invited in are more than welcome to retrial on October 2016.

Boys in school years 1-10 are eligible for trial. We are unable to trial boys in Year 11. The cost of the trial is £10 (plus booking fee).

If you are in Year 11, there is an opportunity to find out about our Futsal BTEC education programme where you can study with us and also train and represent Brentford FC in the Football League Trust National Futsal League from September 2016. Contact Luis Melville, [email protected] for more details.

Applications can only be received from those that are resident in the following borough’s: Hounslow, Ealing, Richmond, Hillingdon and Spelthorne.

Boys school Years One to Six Booking form

Boys school Years Seven to Ten Booking form