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Malta Youth Football Association

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The Malta Youth Football Association (commonly referred to as the 'Youth FA') oversees youth football in the country of Malta. It started with the founding of the Educational Sports Centre in Marsa in 1972. That was the first nursery in Malta. Hundreds of children attended once or twice a week to train in football, basketball, athletics and gymnastics. Slowly, the early eighties gave birth to the football nursery practically in every town in Malta. The Youth F.A. was officially established in 1982 comprising first 8 nurseries and clubs progressing rapidly to the present day. Each nursery caters for children from 6 years to 17-year-old youths In the categories of Under 7, Under 9, Under 11, Under 13, Under 15 and Under 17. Nearly each nursery participates in Under 10 & 12 Festivals as well as in U/14 & U/16 Competitions (Under 19 teams do not form part of the Youth F.A. but of the Malta F.A.). The aims of the educational sports center, as the name denotes, was to educate children through sports. Although the Youth F.A. and all the nurseries do not refer directly to education in their names, the spirit of the aims remain those of forming the characters of children and youths through the game of football.

Member clubs

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Club Locality
Attard Youth Nursery Attard
Balzan Youths Youth Nursery Balzan
Birzebbuga Windmills Youth Nursery Birżebbuġa
Birkirkara Youth Nursery Birkirkara
Dingli Swallows Youth Nursery Dingli
Fgura United Youth Nursery Fgura
Floriana Youth Nursery Floriana
Ghaxaq Youth Nursery Għaxaq
Gudja United Youth Nursery Gudja
Gżira United Youth Nursery Gżira
Ħamrun Spartans F.C. Youth Nursery Ħamrun
Kalkara Youth Nursery Kalkara
Kirkop United F.C. Youth Nursery Kirkop
Lija-Iklin Youth Nursery Lija
Luqa Youth Nursery Luqa
Marsaxlokk Youth Nursery Marsaxlokk
Melita Youth Nursery St. Julian's
Marsa Youth Nursery Marsa
Mellieħa S.C. Youth Nursery Mellieħa
Mgarr United F.C. Youth Nursery Mgarr
Mosta Youth Nursery Mosta
Mqabba Youth Nursery Mqabba
Msida Saint-Joseph F.C. Youth Nursery Msida
Naxxar Lions F.C. Youth Nursery Naxxar
Paola Hibernians Youth Nursery Paola
Pembroke Athleta F.C. Youth Nursery Pembroke, Malta
Pietà Hotspurs F.C. Youth Nursery Pietà
Qormi F.C. Youth Nursery Qormi
Rabat Depiro Youth Nursery Rabat
San Gwann Youth Nursery San Ġwann
Senglea Athletic F.C. Youth Nursery L-Isla
Siggiewi Youth Nursery Siġġiewi
Sirens F.C. Youth Nursery St. Paul's Bay
Sliema Wanderers F.C. Youth Nursery Sliema
Luxol St. Andrew's Youth Nursery St. Andrew's
St. George's F.C. Youth Nursery Bormla
St. Patrick F.C. Youth Nursery Żabbar
Sta. Lucia Youth Nursery Santa Lucia
Santa Venera Youth Nursery Santa Venera
Sliema Wanderers F. C. Youth Nursery Sliema
Tarxien Rainbows F.C. Youth Nursery Tarxien
Valletta F.C. Youth Nursery Valletta
Zebbug Rangers Youth Nursery Żebbuġ, Malta
Zejtun Corinthians F.C. Youth Nursery Żejtun
Żurrieq F.C. Youth Nursery Żurrieq