Worcester City Youth: Under 8s, 14s and Reserves win titles

Having won the Midlands regional final at the end of May, City's youngest squad travelled down to the Middlesex FA Centre in Northolt at the start of this month for the national final to take on four of the JPL’s other regional winners in a round robin tournament – Doncaster Elite Football Academy (North), The Eight FC (South East) and Andover Football Training Centre (South).

Starting well with an early goal and a win versus Doncaster filled the boys with confidence.

Then despite going behind against The Eight, City battled back to gain a comfortable victory and set up a winner-takes-all clash against Andover, who had also won both their previous matches.

A highly competitive decider was led from start to finish by City, who were crowned national champions.

“We have a very strong group of players who were organised and showed their quality against the best teams in the UK,” said manager Nick Pearce.

“The boys were absolutely fantastic today as they have been throughout a stop-start season and deserve to be national champions”, added Assistant Coach, Adam Collett.

City’s Reserves were crowned WFA Saturday Junior Cup winners after an emphatic 6-2 win over Kidderminster Harriers.

Harry Fletcher and Adam Turner put City two up in the first-half – both goals assisted by Owen Oxley, who then set up Kane Harold for a third shortly after the interval.

Oxley netted twice himself in the second-half - either side of a Mateusz Klich effort - to clinch the silverware.

Elsewhere last weekend, there was further celebrations to be had when the under 14s won their own County Cup final, 2-1, over West Worcester.

Max Pinches finished off a superb team move to give City the lead. West Worcester equalised but City were back in front before half-time when Tom Gnyla drove home what proved to be the winner from outside the box.