Football Academy Information
The football academy is starting is
9th season this year. It has grown from a single team
playing in the National PASE league up to the present day three
teams playing in the English Colleges league and the North and East
SESSA divisions.
Last year BTEC Level 3 student Ashley Farmer
represented England in the English Colleges National team and he
also made the top 15 on Sky Ones Footballs Next Star in a bid to
receive a professional contact with Inter Milan.
Last season the English Colleges squad
finished as runners up for the second year running. The SESSA teams
finished a respectable 4th and 5th in their
leagues to cap a good season all round.
This year Bedford College are in the same
three leagues with the ECFA team hoping to go one better and win
the league this season. They drew there first fixture 1-1 against
Harefield Academy and have league fixtures coming up at AFC
Kempston Rovers against Oxford (13 October) and Cambridge (3
November), kick off is 2pm. The SESSA teams don’t kick of their
seasons until late October.