The league have published their quarterly newletter.

Sheen Lions is supporting GrassRoot Soccer a charity dedicated to stopping the spread of HIV. They uses the popularity of Soccer to get serious and important messages about HIV to hard to reach young people in Africa.

Sarah Street has put together 13 sets of shirts from our older kit and our U11 manager Jon Darlison has arranged for DHL to ship these free of charge to Cape Town.

All Sheen Lions teams will be turning out in the new QPR style hoops next season so you can expect to see many more Lions shirts in Africa soon.

Our Secretary, Sarah Street is very keen for Sheen Lions to support the Boots For Africa charity. Take a look at their website to find out more about what they do.

If any of you have unwanted or outgrown football boots (adult of child) cluttering up your cupboards please pass them on to your team’s manager before Easter. Please tie each pair together using their laces.

Kris Hughes (U15 Pride) is helping Sarah to co-ordinate the collection,  managers should pass on their collection to either Kris or Sarah.

Five hundred and forty people attended our annual Presentation Evenings on Thursday 19th May for our U8 to U11 age groups and on Wednesday 25th May for our U12 to U18 age groups. Both events were hosted at the Bank of England Club in Roehampton where many of the squads train during the winter on the floodlit pitch.

During the season players and their parents play matches and train in their small friendly groups but this annual club event shows the scale of Sheen Lions and youth football in Surrey. Sheen Lions is currently the third largest club in the Surrey Youth League fielding 18 teams with 290 registered players. This season we played 298  league games, 149 at home at Palewell and Sheen Common, and 43 cup games. 108 clubs field 452 teams and 7,176 players in the Surrey Youth League. The even is an opportunity both to congratulate our players on their sportsmanship and to thank our organisers for all the work they put in behind the scenes.

As always most of the thanks is due to to our Club Secretary Sarah Street for her faultless administration that ensures that we have players registered, pitches to play on, referees for games and her help with League issues. Sarah is a dedicated QPR fan and as part of our 25th anniversary, and to mark Sarah’s long involvement and critical contribution to Sheen Lions our Chairman Geoff Parmiter presented Sarah with a framed QPR shirt signed by their all of their first team. I am not sure if Geoff also arranged QPR’s promotion to make sure this was a particularly special gift but knowing him I would not be surprised!

We are proud of all our players, demand for places at clubs like Sheen Lions is high and each player deserves the trophy they receive during these evenings. It is nice to acknowledge special contributions to the team and you can see a list of the award winners here.

The presentation evening is also a chance for the players to say thank you to some of the other people that enable them to play football. Each of our teams is run by parents who manage and administer their squads, run the line, put up and take down the goal nets and flags and always my favorite, pitch sanitation. The most important part of the players development is our wonderful coaches. The contribution of all these many people was acknowledged on each evening with presentations to the Managers and Coaches.

Next season we are looking to have 19 teams and will add a mini soccer development group. We are consolidating all our training and match days at Palewell where we will have new mini soccer pitches and a 9-a-side facility for the U11 age group. All age groups are already busy building their squads for next year and many Sheen Lions teams are still playing in the Summer tournaments.

Thanks to Lucy Palmer, Simon Fanthorpe and Simon Roberts for their photos. You can see all their photos by clicking their name.

A brave battling performance from Sheen Lions in the U14 Surrey League Cup Final on Wednesday evening under floodlights at Carshalton Athletic ground but there was no shock result.

AFC Wimbledon are an academy class side so this was a tough game for Sheen. Last year as U13s Wimbledon were English Champions and are unbeatable at Surrey League level this season; they have only lost to one academy side in a full set of fixtures. Once Wimbledon settled Sheen were allowed very little time on the ball and found it very difficult to win the tackles. Despite the pressure Sheen stayed in the game and had more chances to score. Just before half time our forty goal plus striker, Dan had to come with an injury and two minutes into time added on Wimbledon took advantage of a slight hesitation to score at a critical time.

Starting the second half with a lead allowed Wimbledon to relax and they quickly added two more goals when they robbed the ball and rushed forward to score with a clever finish and then with a great header. The cup was won but Sheen kept going and defended strongly to contain Wimbledon for the remaining 25 minutes.

Congratulations to AFC Wimbledon, they are a fantastic side and deserved winners.

After the game our U14 manager Geoff Parmiter said”

WELL DONE to all the squad. I was really pleased that all 15 boys had a good run out and hopefully got the taste of what a Cup Final is really like. Once you get the appetite for Cup Finals , you simply want more and now it is up to us to make sure we win it next year. All I ever ask is that the squad give me their very best and last night looking at the grimaces on their faces I knew in my heart that they really had. Michael, Mark and myself were very proud of you.


A BIG BIG Thanks to everyone that made the effort and supported us last night. I know Sheen Lions v AFC Wimbledon at Carshalton (and an entry fee of £3) versus Barcelona v Real Madrid is a tough call but I was delighted to see so many coaches, managers and parents associated with the club. Cup Finals are about occasions and as supporters you all made it that bit special for the boys. Hopefully you all took something from watching AFC Wimbledon (I certainly do every time I watch them) as they are everything we all aspire to in Youth football.

Nearly 50 boys from Sheen Lions had the pleasure of training at Chelsea FC’s prestige training facilities at Cobham last week.

Sixteen boys from each of the Under 12, Under 13 and Under 14 squads enjoyed a full days training with Chelsea Academy staff.

Michael Morgan, coach for Sheen Lions said ‘the boys had a great opportunity to learn new drills and witness the first class facilities of a professional club’. This is something we hope to do more of in the future.