AFC Oakley Football Club

AFC Oakley run two senior Saturday teams (1st & Reserves) in the Bedfordshire County Football League, in recent years the teams have been extremely successful winning both league & cup competitions.

Bedfordshire County League Premier Division Winners: 2015/16, 2013/14.
Britannia Cup Winners 2015/16,2012/13,2011/12.
County Senior Trophy Finalists 2014/15. Reserves Team Division 2 Winners 2013/14.

AFC Oakley U17 Lightnings play in the U17 Development Group division of the Chilterns Youth Football League.  Our games are played on Sunday afternoons and our home pitch is the Oakley Sports and Social Club. Winter training is held on Thursday evenings at Bedford Athletics stadium.

A number of our current players have played for Oakley for many seasons. The team has been successful in over the years, winning the league and cup double on two occasions.

Team Honours:
U11 MKDDL Div 6 League Winners
U12 MKDDL Div 4 League Winners
U12 MKDDL Cup Winners
U13 Chilterns Youth League Div 3 North Winners
U13 Chilterns Youth League Plate Competition Winners

Telephone: 07799 475929 / 07795 497136
Email: phil.wayles@aecom.com
Email: steven.crook@afcoakley.co.uk

Many of the boys have played with AFC Oakley since they were 5 or 6 and the entire squad is a close knit group.

We are Oakley Knights U15s, currently playing in Division 2 of the Beds Youth Saturday League. We train at Bedford Uni on Wednesday evenings 7-8pm. Our ethos is to play with a smile on your face, whilst playing quality football.

There are 3 teams in our age group…the Pumas, the Panthers and the Jaguars.

The coaches have worked hard to keep a ‘one club’ mentality in the U12s and it has paid dividends for us all.
We train on the same nights, mix sessions up regularly and social events (including the now legendary ‘curry
night’) are done as one. We believe we have an amazing group of children and parent supporters and it is a
pleasure for us coaches to be playing a part in our success.

The Pumas and currently sitting pretty at the top of League 1 and playing football that defies their age group.
The Coaching staff have done an amazing job with a very talented group of kids. The sense of teamwork and
togetherness of these boys is a lesson to us all.

After a tough start for the Panthers, which saw the coaching staff coming very close to the dreaded Chairman’s
‘vote of confidence’ the players themselves have turned it round (after a touch of ‘outside of the box’ style
coaching) and are now enjoying a great period in which they are playing really good football and doing so with a
smile on their faces. We look forward to this continuing into the new year.

Sniffing around the top of their league, the Jaguars continue to play football in the right way with some really
brilliant matches taking place which have left the coaches with very little hair on their heads. Jaguars games are
always played in a brilliant spirit and its great to see the boys and girls battling hard for the good of the team.

All 3 teams play in the MKDDL on a Saturday morning, in 9-a-side football before the move to 11-a-side next season.

Pumas coaches contacts:
Chris Jones – chris.jones1974@sky.com
Steve Vinnicombe – stevevinnicombe@gmail.com

Panthers coaches contacts:
Pete Cook – pete.cook@bpha.org.uk
Harbir Kooner – harbir.kooner@hotmail.co.uk

Jaguars coaches contacts:
Martin Dazley – mdazley@slb.com
Ben Hough-  biggusbennus@hotmail.co.uk

Welcome to AFC Oakley’s Under 10 age group.

We currently have 36 players in our U10 age group who are supported by a coaching team of 7 volunteer coaches  (FA Coaching Award Level 1 qualified), and have been together as a group since we were Under 6’s during the 2015-16 season.

We have three teams (Falcons, Eagles and Ravens) who play in the MKDDL leagues on a Saturday morning and currently train once a week on a Monday evening from 6 – 7 pm.

The U10’s contacts are as follows:

Leigh Siddon (Team Manager – Falcons)
Ben Halford (Team Manager – Eagles)
Adam Camy (Team Manager – Ravens)

If you would like some more details regarding AFC Oakley’s Under 10’s please do not hesitate to get in touch with Leigh Siddon and his contact details are as follows:

E: lsiddon@btinternet.com

M: (07792) 323720

The Under 10’s also have a closed group facebook page for parents and carers to receive regular updates and news. Access to this group is upon request to Leigh Siddon (Team Manager).

Welcome to AFC Oakley – Tornado’s & Hurricanes.

We currently have approximately 22 players in our squad who are supported by a coaching team of five coaches. (FA Coaching Award Level 1 & 2 qualified). We have been together as a group since we were Under 6’s.

We are all about developing football skills, having fun, supporting each other and doing our best.

Training is Tuesday evenings 7-8pm and Bedford Girls School.

Games are played at home on Lincroft School.

U6 started training sessions in Sept and the levels of enthusiasm, enjoyment and improvement have been amazing.
We have 16 players signed on, girls and boys from every part of the community and also a couple of players who travel across the town to specifically come to AFC Oakley due to its very good reputation in the area.