You can now register your interest to be a part of our girls' academy for the 2024/25 season.
The Girls’ Academy is based in a state of the art facility at the American Express Elite Football Performance Centre in Lancing, West Sussex.
The facilities include high-quality pitches, a gym, medical centre, purpose built changing areas and recovery facility.
Our academy is for women & girls aged between 11 and 19. We are a Category 1 Pro-Game Academy which is the highest grading possible within The FA’s rules.
Players will experience quality technical coaching, strength and conditioning programmes, physiotherapy, life-skills programmes and wellbeing care, alongside support around their education.
This season we’ve had four professional debuts from 16 and 17-year-olds in league and cup competitions with numerous academy players training regularly with our first team.
Now we’re looking to identify more high-potential young players to join our already talented age-groups across our girls' academy pathway for next season.
Our upcoming trial days are as follows:
Saturday 1 June 2024:
WU19s: Must be in Year 12 or Year 13 from September 2024
GU15s: Must be in Year 10 from September 2024
Sunday 2 June 2024:
GU16s: Must be in Year 11 from September 2024
GU13s: Must be in Year 8 from September 2024
Saturday 8 June 2024:
GU14s: Must be in Year 9 from September 2024
Sunday 9 June 2024:
GU12s: Must be in Year 7 from September 2024
The Academy’s vision is:
To be renowned as a leading football academy that has an outstanding culture of learning and helps enrich lives for the better.
We do this by:
- developing hard-working, well-rounded & empowered young people.
- developing exceptional footballers for our 1st Team and the professional game.
- developing a workforce of future leaders in the women’s game.
Your Application
Please read through the following information to ensure this is a good fit for you.
To apply for the GU12, GU13 or GU14s age groups, players must:
- Be currently playing for an academy, ETC, former RTC and/or high-level grassroots team.
- Live within 90 minutes of the American Express Elite Football Performance Centre in Lancing (BHAFC Training Ground, BN15 9FP)
- Have an English parent or grandparent or have been educated in England for at least five consecutive years
To apply for the, GU15, GU16 or WU19s age groups, players must:
- Have previous experience of playing for, or currently play for, an Professional Game Academy (PGA), Emerging Talent Centre (former FA Regional Talent Club), FA Advanced Coaching Centre or in at a high level of boys’ grassroots football.
- Live within 90 minutes of the American Express Elite Football Performance Centre in Lancing (BHAFC Training Ground, BN15 9FP)
- Have an English parent or grandparent or have been educated in England for at least five consecutive years
- International or regional experience is desirable
Please note: We are unable to respond to any applications from players who have accepted their offer of retention to their current PGA registration by their current club.
If, after reading the above, you think applying to join the girls’ academy is a good fit for you and your young player, and you would love to be a part of Brighton & Hove Albion, please register your interest by completing the expression of interest application form by clicking here.
The deadline for the expression of interest application to be submitted is Friday 24 May 2024. We look forward to hearing from you.