New Year, new pitches please!
Our Girls’ and Women’s Football Lead, Jo Treharne, outlines our desperate need for new pitches to match the club’s phenomenal growth in recent years, particularly in girls’ football.
Battling Celts edged out at the death
Our u16 Celts went into Sunday’s Albert & Gill Baines Memorial Cup semi-fInal as underdogs against a very strong Margate team currently unbeaten at the top of Division 1. But the Eagles can hold their heads high after an excellent performance.
Meet the coaches: Phil McKee
Cut him and he bleeds green! Phil McKee is the definition of a one-club man. He represented Eagles as a player, started volunteering at Saturday Soccer aged 14 by 16 he was coaching his own team!
Sponsor watch: Nomad Pizza
The award-winning Nomad Pizza of Whitstable has grabbed a slice of the Eagles action, topping off a great couple of months for the budding Ronal-doughs in the u14 Celts. Say ‘cheese’ lads!
Sponsorwatch: Jaytee Biosciences
Recognising the importance sport plays in the physical and mental well-being of young people, Herne Bay-based Biosciences company Jaytee were only too pleased to sponsor the Eagles.
Sponsor watch: Redinet
We're pleased to announce that IT managed service providers Redinet are proud sponsors of our U9s girls’ team and of our Wildcats sessions at Simon Langton Girls’ Grammar School.
Meet the coaches: Shannon King
Our brand new u9 Girls team are just starting out on their football journey, and they have a coach taking her first steps into coaching too! Meet our newest girls' coach Shannon.
Women and girls celebrate spectacular 3-year rise
Our women and girls' football celebration event attracted more than 120 players on Saturday. Eagles have built one of the largest female sections in the county in just 3 years, but further growth is impossible without new facilities.
Women’s Super League trophy comes to Eagles
A special guest brought some sparkle to an otherwise rather rainy Saturday morning training session at Langton Girls, as our Wildcats and girls’ teams as the actual Women’s Super League trophy paid us a visit!
Celebrating success in the sun
Nestling neatly between the end of a supremely successful season and the start of the Euros, Eagles presentation night was once again, in a league of its own.
Girls edged out in nail-biting final
Our u13 Girls went to K Sports on Sunday to compete with Welling United Blues for the Tina Marshall Trophy. The result didn’t go our way, but it was some consolation to pick up the league trophy while they were there!
Eagles take pride in cup triumph over Lions
A day to celebrate for our men's team, who won the Herne Bay & Whitstable League’s Junior Charity Cup on Sunday against City Lions at Whitstable Town FC.
Under 13 Girls clinch league title
Last Sunday our u13 Girls sealed a fantastic season with a 5-1 away win at Park Farm Sapphires, securing the Kent Girls & Ladies Division 4 East title in the process. Check out the epic photo gallery here!
Registering interest in junior disability teams
Did you know that if your child has been diagnosed with a physical, learning or behavioural disability they could get involved in Pan Disability Football?
Meet the coaches: Angie Aldous
Angie has enjoyed a fantastic career as a player at the top of the women’s game, and now she’s bringing all her experience to our u10 Girls squad.
Meet the coaches: Nathan Hunt
It’s time to meet u9 Romans coach Nathan Hunt. Find out why he loves coaching, his proudest coaching moment and which ex-England defender once shouted at him.
Meet the coaches: Vicky Mason
It’s time to meet u10s coach and Women’s team player Vicky Mason whose route into football has been as rapid as it has been rewarding!
Meet the coaches: Sam Hurn
In the first of a new series, we sit down with u16s and Women’s team coach, and all-round Eagles legend, Sam Hurn.
Eagles disability team update
With new coaches Lee Ballard, Sam Perkins, and Billy Phillips at the helm – the trio took over from long-time coach and local football legend Tony Newington last summer – our disability team is still flying high.
Here come the girls!
In a big step for girls football in Canterbury, six youth teams representing the city took to the pitch for the first time on Sunday, 10 September, all representing Canterbury Eagles FC.