Would you like to play for Woking FC?

The current Woking 1st Team Squad includes six players who have come through the Club’s highly-regarded Youth system and there are many more currently plying their trade with other senior Clubs. Not everyone who joins the Club’s Academy makes the grade, of course, but if you live locally and believe you have the talent and desire to make the grade this could be your opportunity.

The inaugural trials for next year's Academy intake (September 2012) will be held in February.

If you were born between 1st September 1993 and 31st August 1997 and wish to register your interest, please send an email to: academy@wokingfc.co.uk providing the following information:

Full Name
Date of Birth
Prefered playing position
Previous Clubs
Contact telephone numbers - home and mobile.

If you are currently in years 11,12 or 13 you will be trialling to be offered a place at one of our collaborating Schools or Colleges where you will be given the opportunity to continue with your academic studies whilst at the same time receive a minimum of six hours UEFA A Licence coaching each week.

If you are currently in year 10 you will be trialling to be accepted into the Woking FC Centre of Excellence u16 age group for the season beginning September 2012.

For more details of the Academy set-up, please click on Youth / Academy.

Following a pitch inspection, today's game against Dorchester Town has been postponed due to a frozen pitch.

The match will now be rescheduled and we will advise you of the new date in due course.

Woking Football Club are pleased to announce Barratt Homes Southern Counties as another major sponsor to the club.

Barratt Homes Southern Counties is the Southern Divisional Office of Barratt Developments plc the national house builder. At the 2011 House Builders Awards Ceremony Barratt Homes were named The House Builder of the Year regarded as a highly prestigious industry award.

Barratt Homes are at the heart of the Woking community with their eye catching development of apartments nearing completion in the centre of the town. You will notice looking around the ground that Barratt Homes have sponsored two pitch side boards, as well as promoting their business with a full page advertisement in the programme and via the Woking FC website link.

As part of their valued sponsorship arrangements Barratt Homes have kindly agreed to act as Matchday Sponsors for the visit of Dorchester Town at the Kingfield Stadium tomorrow 4th February. Attending the game will be Lynnette St-Quintin Sales & Marketing Director of Barratt Homes Southern Counties who has commented ahead of the game “Barratt Homes Southern Counties are thrilled to be the match sponsor for today’s game against Dorchester Town. As a local house builder in Woking we believe it is important to make links with the local community and this is central to our company ethos. We wish Woking Football Club well for this weekend’s game and throughout the rest of the season.”

Sponsorship is the lifeblood of Woking Football Club without which we would simply stagnate. We thank Barratt Homes for their generous support.

Woking Football Club can confirm that tomorrow's match at home to Dorchester Town will be subject to a pitch inspection tomorrow morning at 9.30am.

Woking v Dorchester Town
3pm on Saturday 4 February 2012

Garry Hill sees the next three games as crucial to the Cards’ pursuit of the BSBS title: a good points tally from these games and he believes that Woking will be very hard to catch. Of course, those three games include an eagerly-awaited home clash in a fortnight’s time against second-placed Dartford – now the only team with a realistic chance of catching the Cards. But his calculations must surely include gaining three points this Saturday against seventh-placed Dorchester – certainly not to be taken for granted, given the Magpies’ impressive away record and Woking’s recent inconsistent form. Come down to Kingfield and cheer the Cards on to another vital win!

WOKING

Adam Doyle has now completed his two-match suspension and will be available for selection but Aaron Howe faces a one-match ban this Saturday following his sending-off at Salisbury, so Andy Little will be in goal. Mark Ricketts is now back in training but is presumably still a couple of weeks at least away from a return and Paris Cowan-Hall is recovering from the recurrence of his hamstring injury. Garry has been reticent about the outlook for Dale Binns, who has been suffering from a groin strain.

Garry will have been encouraged, though, by the contribution made by recent loan signings, with Keiran Murtagh and Mike Cestor arguably the two most influential players in the crucial win last week at Boreham Wood and Luke Medley coming off the bench to make a vital assist for the winning goal. Woking’s latest signing, Mo Shariff, had not even had time to train with the squad before his debut at Boreham Wood, so it was not surprising that he did not show up strongly but there were one or two nice touches and Cards fans will look forward to seeing him in action at Kingfield.

With Dartford engaged in the FA Trophy this weekend, the Cards have the opportunity to restore their lead to 14 points, if perhaps only briefly: the Darts are away at Eastbourne Borough on Tuesday evening.

DORCHESTER TOWN

The Magpies are on a very fine run at present, being unbeaten in their last 14 league games. That sequence includes some impressive away performances – most recently a 4-1 win at Eastbourne Borough and, prior to that, a 1-0 win at Salisbury City and a 1-1 draw at Dartford. They now sit in seventh place in the table, having played two or... [ Read More ]

Woking's Surrey Senior Cup Quarter Final match at home to Ashford Town (Middlesex) has been scheduled for Monday 13th February with a 7.45pm kick off.

Admission prices are £8 for Adults, £4 for Concessions and £2 for u16s.

From 12 – 1.30, start your day with a football training session at St Peter’s Rec, from Woking FC community coaches. Children can enjoy learning basic skills, meeting new friends and having fun. Then to Kingfield Stadium, home of the Cardinals for the rest of the day, one adult and one child will be entitled to sausage and chips from Award winning Fish and Chip Shop, Seafare. Then you both will be able to watch high flying Woking FC from the fantastic Leslie Gosden Stand.

Children will get opportunities to meet their favourite players and take part in penalty shootouts throughout the season.

All this for just £20

To register, email ryan.community@wokingfc.co.uk
Or call the community team on 01483 772470 EXT 221/223


Dates:

Woking vs Dorchester - 4th February - 12pm - St Peter's Rec

Woking vs Maidenhead - 3rd March - 12pm - St Peter's Rec

Woking vs Thurrock - 31st March - 12pm - St Peter's Rec

Woking vs Truro - 21st April... [ Read More ]

Boreham Wood 1 Woking 2
28 January 2012

This felt like an important win for the Cards, preserving their 11-point lead over Dartford and maintaining Garry Hill’s record of always bouncing back from a league defeat. It was a hard-won three points, though – not secured until Moses Ademola’s strike in the 83rd minute after the Wood had equalised Elvis Hammond’s first-half opening goal.

Garry Hill was clearly intent on going for win, starting with a line-up that included new loan signing Mo Shariff wide left, with Moses Ademola on the right and Wayne Gray and Elvis Hammond inside them.

Woking made a scrappy start on a bumpy pitch, conceding quite a few free-kicks in dangerous positions through clumsy challenges. One of these infringements required Aaron Howe to pull off a fine save, tipping Mario Noto’s strike over the bar as it headed towards the top corner. Noto went close again from the resulting corner, volleying wide.

The Cards began to get their passing game going around the quarter of an hour mark, opening up the Wood defence several times, with shots coming in from Ademola and Hammond as well as a Joe McNerney header from a corner.

At the other end, however, an Alan Inns lunge in the box looked perilously close to conceding a penalty.

Keiran Murtagh – looking much more like the creative, authoritative player whom we saw last season – began to exert his influence on the game,ably assisted by Mike Cestor. It was Cestor who ended a fine Woking move with a cross-cum-shot which bounced off the corner of the bar and post before, in the 23rd minute, the Cards got their noses in front.

Michael Jordan, the home keeper, looked as though he, rather than Hammond, would be the first to a ball played through to the right of the area but he seemed to hesitate, perhaps distracted by one of his defenders. Hammond pushed the ball past him and then had the relatively simple task of side-footing the ball into the open goal.

Boreham Wood quickly sought to get back on equal terms, compelling Woking to concede two more free-kicks in dangerous areas before a shot from Noto was deflected to Howe.

Woking’s next decent chance fell to Gray in the 33rd minute but, having picked up a nice ball from Murtagh, he chose a line on goal which enabled a Wood defender to block him off, with no hope of the referee agreeing to his pleas for obstruction.Read More ]