If you are after academic excellence and a wide range of good sports facilities, then you have lots of choice with a huge number of schools to pick from. However, if you want a school which specialises in football, the choices become far more limited.
The fact is that at many top private schools, which have great sporting facilities, and excellent coaches, football is not the major sport. Many schools typically specialise in Rugby during the autumn term, have hockey / football as their focus in the spring term and play cricket and athletics in the summer term. This gives students the chance to experience many different sports, but in terms of specialist football development, our experience tells us that players will struggle here to improve to the high levels which are needed to progress to the next level.
The serious footballer needs a school, which is geared towards football progression and mirrors a pro club academy experience as closely as possible. They need to be at one of the top football schools in the country, where football is played for at least two terms in the academic year. At these schools, they will have expert coaches, outstanding facilities, an excellent, competitive fixture list, and the school will provide potential progression pathways into professional football clubs. This is what our list of carefully selected schools provides in terms of football excellence.
However, in addition, these top UK private schools have also have academic programmes that are renowned for their excellence throughout the world. Regardless of the football, many pupils come to these schools purely on the grounds of their academic excellence, with small class sizes and teachers of the very highest quality. The quality of these academic programmes have been taken into serious consideration when selecting our chosen schools, and we will be happy to discuss this with you.
Finally, the list of extra curricula activities provided by these schools is also incredibly diverse, and they are renowned for their ability to produce self confident and well rounded pupils when they come to leave. So these schools offer a fantastic football experience and more besides.