AFC Stoneham has seen a huge growth in female participation over the last few years with the club growing from 3 female teams six years ago to 36 teams for season 2026/7. We aim to maintain this growth further and replicate the structure we have put in place for boys over the last few years into our ever growing number of girls teams.

We are creating a structure within where girls can join our club at a young age and develop through a clearly defined player pathway into our ladies first team following the ethos we already have in place within the male side of the club.

This growth includes a development squad which aims to support our U16 - U19 players make the transition into a good level of senior women’s football and eventually into our first team who play in the Womens National Pyramid .

Our player pathway is starting to bare fruit, in addition another very important part of our pathway is having teams in every age group of the Hampshire Girls league whilst all girls have the opportunity to progress to senior football with our club.

Our youngest girls can join our FA Wildcats Centre at 4 years of age held on a Monday evening and then join age group teams when old enough. Alternatively, older players and teams can join our club at all age groups.

We were very proud to be able to give 50 of our young female players the opportunity of a lifetime at the 2022 EUFA Womens Championships as flag bearers and mascots at all three games held at St Marys stadium including the Northern Ireland v England game in front of 32000 fans. An experience the girls will never forget!

The clubs new three year contract with Kitlocker and Nike, signed last summer, includes ongoing support for the female game particularly around the recruitment of more female coaches.

The new partnership has already led to many of the girls attending Lionesses matches, visits to Lionesses training days at St Georges Park, Nike Partner Club tournaments at both St Georges park and Brighton and Hove Albion.

The success and development of our Girls and Ladies teams has given the club further momentum to grow female football at AFC Stoneham whilst realising our overall goals and ambitions.

The club is extremely keen to hear from any female players wishing to join AFC Stoneham and contact details for each team are shown below. Alternatively please do contact chairman@afcstoneham for further details.