Betteshanger FC - Youth

23/10/2026

🔴⚫ SOCCER SATURDAY! ⚽🎃

A frightfully good morning of grassroots football awaits at the Welfare Ground this Saturday, with SIX home fixtures!👻⚽

🌧️💨 Unfortunately, the weather is looking more TRICK than TREAT! Rain and strong winds are forecast, so wrap up warm, bring your waterproofs and keep an eye out for any weather-related updates!

☕ Please note: The café will be CLOSED this weekend, so don't forget your own hot drinks. Pumpkin spiced latte, anyone? 🎃☕

👻 With no league fixtures on Halloween next Saturday, we're hoping for a
spook-tacular, scare-free weekend of football** before the half-term break! 🎃

🚗 Safe travels to all our visiting teams, players and supporters. We look forward to welcoming you to the Welfare Ground!

Whatever you're up to, have a fantastic half-term, enjoy the football and stay safe!

🦇︎❤️🖤 🖤❤️ 🦇︎

16/10/2026

We're looking forward to a fantastic weekend of football at The Welfare Ground as we welcome our visitors from Herne Bay Youth Panthers, Shepherdswell Youth, Tankerton, Rising Stars Blue, Dover Rangers Navy and Tankerton Blue.

With six home fixtures across Saturday and Sunday, it's set to be a brilliant showcase of grassroots football, development, teamwork and plenty of great moments on the pitch.

Good luck to all players, coaches and supporters travelling to Betteshanger this weekend. We hope everyone enjoys their football and helps create a positive and competitive atmosphere throughout the weekend.

Come down and support the teams, enjoy the action, and let's make it a great weekend for everyone involved.

🔴⚪ Up The Bettes! ⚪🔴

15/10/2026

🏆 U11 September Players of the Month 🏆
A huge congratulations to our U11 September Players of the Month! 👏⚽
⚫ Theon - Blacks
🔴 Joe - Reds
⚪ Frankey - Whites
All three players have impressed throughout September with their hard work, commitment, attitude and performances.
Keep up the fantastic work, boys. A thoroughly deserved recognition and we look forward to seeing your continued progress throughout the season! ⭐

14/10/2026

❤️🖤 Grassroots football is one big community, and we stand together when it matters.

Absolutely heartbreaking to see this happened to our friends at Dover Rangers FC.

Like so many grassroots clubs, everything they have is built through the hard work, dedication and generosity of volunteers, parents and supporters. To have that taken away is devastating.
From everyone at Betteshanger FC, you have our full support. ❤️🖤

Please share their post far and wide. If anyone has any information, however small, please get in touch with Dover Rangers.

Football brings communities together. Let's show them what the grassroots football family is all about. ⚽❤️

🚨🚨 WE’VE BEEN ROBBED!! 🚨🚨

💔 DOVER RANGERS FC NEEDS YOUR HELP! 💔

We are absolutely gutted to announce that someone has broken into our storage container at River Rec and stolen vital equipment used to keep our football club running!

The break-in happened sometime between Sunday late afternoon and Wednesday morning.

We are a grassroots football club run by volunteers who give up countless hours to provide football for children and adults in our local community. Everything we have is worked hard for, fundraised for and put straight back into the club!

For someone to come along and take what we’ve worked so hard for is absolutely heartbreaking!

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

If anyone has seen anything suspicious around River Rec during this time, heard anything or has any information, no matter how small, PLEASE get in touch with us!

PLEASE SHARE THIS POST FAR AND WIDE! 📢

04/10/2026

⚽❤️ FOOTBALL FINDS A WAY! ❤️⚽

After the U9 Boys and U10 Wildcats had their tournament cancelled at the last minute, we decided there was only one thing to do…

Play football anyway! 🙌

So we brought the two groups together and ran our own in-house 4v4 football festival — plenty of games, loads of touches on the ball, goals, smiles and most importantly, kids enjoying their football.

Sometimes plans change, but that doesn’t mean the football has to stop.

A brilliant morning for our U9 Boys and U10 Wildcats and a great example of what grassroots football is all about. ⚽🖤❤️

Football. Fun. Friends.

02/10/2026

Another busy weekend of grassroots football at Betteshanger, with six home games on Saturday and another on Sunday.

We’re looking forward to welcoming all of our visiting teams, players, coaches and supporters to the Welfare Ground. 🤝

📅 Saturday
U10 Red • U10 Yellow • U13 • U16 • U11 Red • U14 Red

📅 Sunday
U12 Black

A quick reminder to everyone coming along:

👏 Support the players
🗣️ Encourage, don’t criticise
🟨 Respect our young referees — they’re learning too
🚗 Please park considerately and respect our neighbours

☕ Café Pariz will be open, so pop in, grab something and say hello while you’re there.

Plenty of football. Plenty of support. One club. ❤️🖤

Good luck to every Betteshanger team pulling on the shirt this weekend.

🔴⚫

02/10/2026

✅ UPDATE — REF FOUND!

Thanks everyone — we’ve now found a referee for tomorrow’s game. ⚽🙌

If anyone is interested in refereeing for us in the future, or knows someone who might be, please drop us a message.

We’re always keen to hear from local referees who may be available for future fixtures.

25/09/2026

⚽ SOCCER SATURDAY AT THE WELFARE GROUND 🔴⚫

Another busy Saturday of grassroots football is coming up at the Welfare Ground, with eight Betteshanger teams in action from 9am.

We’re looking forward to welcoming Baypoint, Whitstable Town, Tyler Hill Youth, Sandwich Town, Barham, Dover Rangers, Rising Stars and Bearsted — teams travelling from across Kent for a great morning of youth football.

The weather looks like it should play its part too, with dry conditions, sunny spells and temperatures around 19°C expected. ☀️⚽

A couple of important reminders for everyone joining us this weekend…

🅿️ Parking will be tight.
We know parking at busy times can be incredibly frustrating, so the entrance from St Richards Road will be open to help ease the overflow.

Please allow a little extra time, park sensibly and, most importantly, respect our neighbours by avoiding blocked driveways, entrances or unsafe parking.

🟨 Please also support our young referees.
Many of our matches are officiated by young referees who are still learning and developing their game, just like the players on the pitch.

Football is subjective. Decisions will sometimes go your way and sometimes they won’t.

Please give our referees, and volunteer linos, your patience, encouragement and respect. Without them, we simply wouldn’t be able to host anywhere near as many games as we do.

Let the players play.
Let the coaches coach.
Let the referees referee. ❤️🖤

Come down, support the teams and enjoy another brilliant Saturday morning of grassroots football at the Welfare Ground.

☕ Café Pariz will be open throughout the morning, so pop in, grab a drink or something to eat and say hi while you’re there!

Good luck to every player, coach and referee — and a warm welcome to all our visiting teams.

21/09/2026

⚽ PLAYERS WANTED — BETTESHANGER FC U14s

A place in the team — not just the squad.

We’re looking to add players to our U14s squad for the 2026/27 season.

We’re building a tight, competitive group rather than an oversized squad. Anyone joining us won’t simply be there to make up the numbers — they’ll have a real opportunity to train, compete, develop and play.

Our aim is to develop confident, intelligent players who are brave on the ball, trust their own decisions and understand that mistakes are part of improving.

If your child is ready for a fresh challenge, wants more opportunity or simply wants to enjoy their football again, we would love to invite them along to meet the coaches and train with the team.

🔴⚫ All positions considered
⚽ Division One football
🤝 No pressure and no obligation
📩 Message the club page or contact us on 07714 573198

Please share — the right opportunity might reach the right player because of you.