AutismAble Football Club

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The team are looking for new players for the 2019 season to help bolster the existing team and to form a new B-Team which will play in lower banding, slower placed games. This is to make sure that players of all ability have the chance to join in.

AutismAble FC are an inclusive, disability friendly football club formed in 2017 open to people of all genders. We have affiliation with the Durham Football Association and are registered to play in the North East Inclusion League and the North East Ability Counts League.

The coaches are FA approved and we train Thursday evening at 6pm and and Friday afternoon at 1pm each week. Players would need to attend at least one of these sessions to be considered for league games. Players are also welcome to join just for fun.

As well as promoting the fundamental skills of football, the coaches embed teamwork, communication, perseverance, friendship and wellbeing. We have a really good team spirit at AutismAble FC and the coaches make sure that all players get a fair share of game time in tournaments.

In our first season in 2018, the team achieved:

Durham FA Ability Andrew Armstrong Memorial Cup - Winners
Durham FA Fair Play Award - Winners
South Tyneside Ability League 2 - Winners
North East College Inclusion League - Runners Up
FA Peoples Cup – Male Premier League Disability Finalists

We are very grateful to our kind sponsors for the 2019 season, Brighams & Cowan Social Club and the Cleadon & District Rotary Club.

You can contact us via this page if you are interested.

Thank-you

We are pleased to announce the sponsors for the 2019 season are Brigham & Cowan and the Rotary Club of Cleadon & District.

More news coming soon!

The lads won their second game in the NEACL league 2-0 vs Beamish.

Teamwork and perseverance were the key today . It was lovely to see how you all encouraged each other to keep going. We are very proud of you all.

Goalscorers:
Keiran Bowley
Preddi Bononge

Man of the Match:
Kevin Chan

A great start to the NEACL League 3 campaign. The lads saw off a strong Cleveland SO side to win 5-2 with three late goals.

Goalscorers:
Keiran Bowley
Kevin Chan
Preddi Bononge (3)

Man of the Match:
Keiran Bowley

AutismAble have won their second tournament trophy 🏆 today at the Middlesbrough FC foundation. The team have won the Durham FA ability Andrew Armstrong memorial trophy, against some very tough competition.

We're extremely proud of the team having only formed less than a year ago. They have been a credit to the club and the organisation and we're looking forward to more silverware throughout the year! Well done lads.

The team are entering the North East Ability Counts league in April and need some extra players as it is 7-aside.

If you know anyone who is interested, then please message this page or email [email protected].

Post-match debrief. Not quite sure what’s happening here to be honest.

The lads played their hearts out and finished third in their group but it wasn’t quite enough to make the finals this time around. We finished the FA People’s Cup on a high with a 4-1 victory over a strong Carlisle United side . Thank you to everyone who supported us this year . We will be back for another go next year .

FA People’s Cup Semi-Final Squad. Howay the lads.

It's the semi-finals of the FA People's Cup this Sunday and we are now officially on the road to Manchester !

Thanks to some kind hearted people on this group and some local businesses we have managed to raise £890 to get the lads there as well as the purchase of training jackets and other equipment.

Thanks to everyone who shared and spread the word and we would especially like to thank the following who have helped the club with donations or their time:

Brigham and Cowan Employees Welfare Club
Flourish Accountancy Services
Unison
Userlab.co.uk
586 Records
The Kayaks
Vic Young
Ann Gilmour
Phil Grice
Michelle Poole
David Tiernan

Thanks so much and we hope to do everyone proud on Sunday!