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Wellington United Juniors
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Welcome to Wellington United Juniors, the friendly, family club based out of Newtown Park.  We offer both mixed football on Saturday morning and girls only on Sundays. We draw players mainly from Clyde Quay, Kilbirne, Newtown, Houghton Valley, Hataitai, Roseneath, Lyall Bay, EBIS and SWIS schools, but others travel from far and wide to wear the orange and blue of Wellington United.






Age Grades 2020
Grades by birth year are shown below for the 2020 season:
Born in - 2014/2015            Grade  First Kicks
Born in - 2013                     Under 7
Born in - 2012                     Under 8
Born in - 2011                      Under 9
Born in - 2010                    Under 10
Born in - 2009                   Under 11
Born in - 2008                   Under 12
Born in - 2007                   Under 13
Born in - 2005/2006        Under 14/15

All players are to play within their own age grade.
  • Girls may choose to play a grade younger in the mixed Saturday league, or play in a Girls Only Sunday League (GOSL), or both! Girls playing both Saturday and Sunday pay an extra registration fee because the council ground fees and other administrative charges are paid for both leagues.

First Kicks  is a skills training, games, fun, player development programme that runs at Newtown Park on Saturday mornings 8:30am - 9:30am. Players enjoy 4 fun-packed training drills called Station Rotation then the squad of ten players is split up to play short games of 4 or 5 aside, on small fields with no goalkeepers and modified rules. Appropriate shoes/boots, clothing, drink bottles recommended. Shin pads are compulsory.

Fun Football programme is based at Newtown Park on Saturdays. Games are usually played between 9:30am - 10.30am on Saturday's. On every third weekend a Fun Football Festival day sends teams to play games against other clubs (at numerous venues across Wellington - so games may finish at 11am – controlled by the clubs that hold the festival days).  Players in Fun Football, also attend one training session during the week.  At training, players are taken through 3/4 training drills called Station Rotation then play a short game of 5 v 5 on small fields, with no goalkeepers and modified rules. 
  • First festival weekend for 2019 - tbc.
  • Festival days will take place every 3rd week.
  • Festival Weekends are played at: Newtown Park. Miramar Park & Wakefield Park.
  • Fun Football players attend one training session during the week, indoors at ASB Sports Centre in Kilbirnie 

9th to 14th Grade Games
These Grades play on sportsgrounds around Wellington; in general, grounds can get further away as players get older. Listed are some of the venues these grades play at: MacAlister Park, Crawford Green, Vogelmorn Park, Mt Albert Park, Newlands Park, Sinclair Park and Wakefield Park. Players attend one training session during the week at Wakefield Park (coaches will confirm training day & time asap).

Girls Only
Girls Only play at Wakefield Park - Artificial Turf, Island Bay & Te Whaea - Artificial Turf, Hutchison Road, Newtown. Players attend one training session during the week at Wakefield Park. Artificial Turf Guidelines for Use - Please read.
More information on the Girls Only Sunday League can be found on Capital Football's website.

Guille Schiltenwolf (WU Director of Junior Football) 
Guille orginally from Buenos Aires, Argentina has extensive Junior coaching experience. He has coached many football teams in Wellington. Guille is looking forward to coaching our younger stars of tomorrow.