What is Little League Football
Little League Football ® is a national organisation. Its main objective is to provide organised football, as governed by the F.A., to both boys and girls between the ages of 6 and 14 years.
The main difference between Little League Football ® and other football bodies is that no-one is picked on ability; we give everyone the opportunity to play as long as they want to. Little League is about giving children of all abilities to experience the enjoyment of playing football as a leisure activity with the ability to work within a team at no charge
Who are Morden Little League?
Morden Little League Football is a charity that offers free football for boys aged 6-13 and girls aged 7-14.
We have been running for 41years and have over 600 kids playing each saturday.
We split our league into eight section of which six are for boys and two are for girls.
MORDEN LITTLE LEAGUE FOOTBALL IS FOR FUN - NO MORE NO LESS
Where are We?
The league is based at King Georges Playing Field, Tudor Drive, Morden,(Near Woodstock, Stonecot Hill)
We play on saturdays with our first kick off at 9:30am
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Contact Details
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Structure 2009/2010 Season
Morden Little League consists of teams formed in eight sections. There are two girls sections, four boys sections and Two mixed sections
Boys Sections
Seniors League: 6 teams for Under 13's and Under 12's playing 11-aside football
-Elm Beetles, Footman Flyers, Mays Lions, Remco Royals, Switchgear Flashes, Watliff Dynamos
Juniors League: 10teams for Under 11's and Under 12's playing 11-aside football
-Carina Allstars, Coopers Colts, Cranleigh Aces, CTL Falcons, Essex Eagles, Hunns Hornets, Jaydee Grasshoppers, Presidents Royals, Rotary Royals , TIW Tigers
Bantams League: 8 teams for Under 10's playing 7-aside Mini-soccer
-Decorex Dynamos, Fenwick Falcons, Morden Sports Aces, M.A.B Warriors, Macemain Whirlwinds, Rob's Rockets, Traq Tigers, Wills Warriors
Hornets League: 8 teams for Under 9's playing 7-aside Mini-Soccer
-AFC Dons, Allenbuild Athletics, Castle Wanderers , Fresh Start Rovers, Glenns Gladiators, JLG Warriors, Lancaster Legends, Macroom Rockets
Girls Sections
Senior Girls League: 6 teams for Under 12's,Under 13's and Under 14's playing 9-aside football
-Budgies Tombhoys, Gregory Girls, Jephs Fillies,R&D Bluebells, Rockford Peaches, USA Blue Sox
Trinians League: 4 Teams for Under 9's ,Under 10's and Under 11's playing 7-aside Mini-Soccer
-Beverley Blues, Raffles Rockets, Red Eagles, Tilly's Tigers
Mixed Gender Sections
Rangers League: 6 teams for Boys and Girls Under 8's playing 7-aside Mini-Soccer
-Boxtag Rangers, Globe Flyers, Marshalls Blues, Rotary Rockets, Seattle Steamers, Young Wizards
Soccer7evens: 4 Teams for boys and Girls Under 7's playing 7-aside Mini-Soccer
Bakerz Dozen, Castle Crusaders, JLG Panthers, TK Marauders
Committee
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HISTORY
It’s a little known fact that Morden Little League grew from a passion for Baseball. Frank Adey had travelled to the USA to experience his passion for the sport. He soon discovered Little League Baseball (LLB) where every child was free to participate and all teams were selected so each had an equal chance. With England’s recent World Cup success in mind, a germ of an idea became lodged in Frank’s thoughts. On his return home, he decided to put this idea into action and set about founding Little League Football. the principles and format of the league have hardly changed since Frank’s passion for baseball ignited what we all witness and enjoy every Saturday morning on King George’s Field.
The following is an article Frank recently wrote for the 40th Anniversary of Morden LLF:-
“For many years I thought there was school and local boys’ teams but what about organised football for those youngsters who could not get in a team or there family could not afford the kit or weekly fees. With these thoughts I wrote down several rules and even designed a badge, the very badge that became the emblem of Little League Football. I was just dreaming.
Then in 1967 it happened. Working for Watliff Co. Ltd of Merton, a fellow colleague George Burdett, who at that time managed Merstham F.C. burst into my print room and said ‘Merstham have sacked me, I am going to start a boy’s team’ and off he went, quickly followed by me saying ‘George don’t do anything until you hear from me’ the seed had been sown.
I contacted several Watliff employees who might have been interested and then decided to approach the Chairman and managing Director, Mr. W. E. Arnold, about the possibility of forming a 6 team league, being sponsored by local companies. He not only offered to sponsor a team but made arrangements for me to give a talk at the Morden Rotary Club – five Rotarians agreed to sponsor teams. All the equipment, goal posts, benches etc., necessary to start the league were made and supplied by the company. The company’s address could also be used as the National Headquarters. Without the generosity of Mr. Arnold, Little League Football would never have got off the ground.
The Inaugural Meeting was held on 21 February 1968.
My wife and I distributed leaflets announcing target dates – result was 10 fingers and 25 gloves caught in letter boxes!!
Try out sessions commenced on Saturday 24 August and some 200 boys attended, 84 were selected. Those who did not gain a team were notified by letter and informed they would be considered of a place became vacant.
The official opening by the Mayor of Merton, Alderman N. S. Clarke J.P. was held on Saturday 5 October 1968 with an attendance of 500 parents, friends and guests.
I sincerely thank all those in the past, all those in the present and those in the future, of this great organisation called - Little League Football - How that little seed has grown”.
Frank Adey
You can see the current crop of volunteers running the league |
And we mustn't forget the ones that help make this league the best around. |
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TIMELINE
In 1968 Frank Adey and a few colleagues saw the lack of football for boys aged up to thirteen years, and so they founded Morden Little League Football. It began as simply as that.
The SENIOR LEAGUE has six teams with squads of sixteen players (aged U13 & U12). The boys thus participate in one of three games played on one pitch each Saturday morning. The pitch, goalposts and footballs are reduced in size to accommodate the physical capabilities of boys in this age group, and the playing time is twenty five minutes each way. The Council provide the pitches, qualified Referees volunteer their support to the League, and local businesses and individuals sponsor the teams.
The massive attendance at the 1986 Trials enabled the formation of the six-team JUNIOR LEAGUE.
In 1987 the BANTAMS were created (boys now aged ten), maintaining the Rangers principles of skill development and “practice-not-points”, with no scores recorded and no League table created. Progressive revisions now leave the Bantams playing Mini Soccer with 8 squads of ten boys.
1993 saw a new six-team section known as the COLTS LEAGUE initiated, to accommodate the unselected older boys, In 2005 they joined the existing junior teams to form a new 10 team U11/U12
JUNIOR LEAGUE.
A change in the national Little League Rules in 1994 enabled the creation of a six-team GIRLS LEAGUE (now aged eleven to fourteen years) to meet the increasing and proper demand for Equal Opportunities.
In the same year, two teams were created for the younger girls (now aged eight to ten) and were called the TRINIANS, following the Mini Soccer principles of the Rangers, with two more teams created in 1995.
The RANGERS were founded in 1994, when a number of boys (now aged eight years) who were too young for the Senior League, played informal games of “Fun Football”, with different teams selected each week. Whilst the games continue to be informal, there has been progressive adjustment between six, ten and now eight squads, who play Mini Soccer games.
The 1999 FA Rule changing the requirement for small sided football from U9’s to U10’s, sparked the creation of the HORNETS (boys now aged nine years), with eight teams 10 boys in 2002-03) in a new Mini Soccer section between the Bantams and Rangers.
The 2004/05 season saw the start of the SOCCER 7EVENS, the Rangers have been split into two, Rangers will become aged eight, with 6 teams and the Soccer 7’s will have four teams of boys and from 2008-2009 season girls aged seven will play in the Soccer 7’s.
A total of nearly 650 boys and girls will play Morden Little League in 2008-2009
and over 6000 nationally.
