Needham Market
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Facilities
“We have received some excellent
comments and positive feedback from
numerous clubs who have visited us.
This has been extremely pleasing to hear,
especially as some of these clubs have
been from higher up the football league
pyramid. These include Cambridge
United, Chelmsford City, Colchester
United, Ebbsfleet United, Ipswich Town
and Southend United.
We also receive the same comments
from visiting teams in our own division,
The Ryman Premier League. Visiting
Match Officials, Football Association
Representatives and County Football
Association Members have also praised
our facilities and hospitality commenting
we would be a credit to leagues higher up
the football league pyramid.”
Developments
“We are always trying to improve the
club’s facilities and recently extended our
club house by increasing the size of our
ground floor function room as well as
upgrading our excellent kitchen facility
to produce hot food and refreshments
for supporters and players as well as
providing hospitality to visiting team
directors.
As well as continually investing in
maintaining the drainage and playing
surface of our first team pitch we have
also had three new stands installed
in the last four years, have installed
new floodlights on our second pitch to
improve the training facility area and
have just completed the rebuild of our
academy classrooms. All these projects
were completed thanks to the hard work
put in by numerous volunteers and the
support of several local companies. The
long term plan is to raise the funds for an
all-weather 3G Artificial Pitch which can
be used by our club and more importantly
the local community all year round.”
Challenges
“We want to continue to be a successful
club both on and off the field with a very
strong backbone of a committee behind
the scenes working extremely hard to
keep the club moving forward. We have
set high standards for the club and want
to continue to do so in years to come. We
believe we have the facilities to compete
at the higher level and will always strive
to continue to improve wherever possible.
Obviously this is only possible through
various means of club sponsorship,
the involvement of local companies
and
organisations
and
individual
contributions to continue to keep the
club competitive at the highest possible
level. We are very fortunate to have some
excellent backing and every year this
support is extremely appreciated.”
Ambitions
“We want to continue to improve and
aim to get the club at the highest possible
level. We have ambitious plans to develop
our Academy further by attracting
students from further a field and to start a
girl’s academy. We need our Academy to
continue to develop the younger players
to progress them through the reserve side
and on to the first team. The long term
goal for the first team is to achieve Step
2 football.”
“We have ambitious plans to develop our
Academy further by attracting students from further a
field and to start a girl’s academy.”
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