History

This is the seventh season for Cambridge City Ladies and Girls Football Club and the Club can report healthy development in that 7 year period. Ladies and Girls football in this country has grown with more and more Clubs forming and existing leagues becoming more competitive. Cambridge City has kept pace with that growth offering opportunities for Ladies and Girls to play and progress within the Game.

Prior to 2002 the Girls were playing under the name of Cherry Hinton Crusaders with two teams managed by Eddie Tucker and David Hewson with Kevin Jacklin as the Club Chairman. They were approached by Cambridge City to play their football under the name of Cambridge City. The Club similarly approached a local ladies team called Pye Ladies to play under the name of Cambridge City to create a Club providing football at both youth and adult level. The Ladies Club was originally formed in the 1967/8 season and have been competing in Ladies League Football since that time.

Both sections of the Club have expanded. After a very successful season in 2006/2007, with both Ladies teams winning their Leagues, the first team are now competing in the South East Combination League, for their second season, and the Reserves are playing in the Eastern Region Women’s League Division One North. The Girls were equally successful last season with two teams completing League and Cup doubles and the U14’s representing Cambridgeshire reaching the English National final of the Tesco Cup. The Girls now have teams in the Cambridgeshire League at both 7 and 11 a side, in the Home Counties League at 11 a side and in the Weetabix League (Bedfordshire, Northants and Buckinghamshire) at 11 a side. There can be some distance to travel but the girls are keen to have good quality football.

The Club has been awarded the FA Charter Standard having achieved the recommended requirements in respect of management, structure, funding and professionalism set down by The Football Association.

All Managers and coaches have received the basic training required by the F A (Coaching Certificate level 1) and some have enhanced this minimum qualification. There are currently 3 coaches who have successfully passed the FA Level 2 Certificate. Some of the older youth players are encouraged to take the Level 1 Coaching Certificate. Others have taken referees courses so that the Club can function fully each weekend when there are so many games to put on.