Swansea City News, Match Reports & Academy
The latest news, match reports and match galleries from the Swansea City Academy.
A few minor gripes, but overall a great treat at Landore this evening. It seems our soft underbelly runs throughout our teams – we utterly dominated the game today, but gifted Cardiff 2 goals in short order. It would’ve been a travesty to have lost this match. We lined up 4-3-3: Ben Hughes; Joe Thomas, Kai Ludvigsen, Azeem …
Here is an image slideshow from the Under 18 Professional Development League game between Swansea City and Reading at the Swansea City Academy in Landore on Saturday, 11 February 2023. An impressive second half performance from the Swans Under-18s ensured they claimed all three points in this Professional Development League South clash. Trailing at the …
A really impressive 2nd half performance from our U18. We weren’t really at the races before the interval: the formation seemed right enough, but players are being played in positions that challenge them and it seems every mistake is punished. Some tweaks by coach Darren Davies before half-time and after the interval were not the sole reason …
Here is an image slideshow from the Under 18 Professional Development League game between Swansea City and Millwall at the Swansea City Academy in Landore on Saturday, 4 February 2023. The Swans Under-18s were denied victory as a late Kavalli Heywood goal earned visitors Millwall a point. Geoff Bony gave the Swans the lead in …
A short report of today’s U18s match. I stayed for 65 minutes before making my way across to the funfest due to unfold at the main stadium. It may be that we were missing players, the starting formation and selection was a little novel – essentially 3-4-1-2 as follows: Kit Margetson; Sam Parker, Jada Mawongo, Arthur …
Today’s game was screened live on the Charlton website. We went down 1-0 – quite disappointing given that Charlton missed a glut of chances and all it would’ve taken was a single slice of ambition or luck for us to have snatched what would admittedly have been a totally undeserved point. I’m afraid we betrayed …
Here is an image slideshow from the Under 21 Premier League Cup game between Swansea City and Stoke City at the Swans Academy in Landore on Friday, 2 December 2022. A very young Swansea City side fell to a heavy defeat against category one academy Stoke City in the Swans penultimate Premier League Cup game. …
Here is an image slideshow from the Under 18s Professional Development League game between Swansea City and Watford at the Swans Academy in Landore on Saturday, 19 November 2022. The young Swans were held to a 1-1 draw by Watford at Landore in an entertaining contest between two decent sides. In a game very much …
The Swans Under 18s have been drawn at home to Sunderland in the FA Youth Cup Third Round. Darren Davies and his young Swans will no doubt relish the opportunity to take on Category One Academy Sunderland at Landore. The Black Cats currently play in Under-18 Premier League North, against the likes of Everton, Newcastle, …
Here is an image slideshow from the Under 21s Professional Development League game between the Swans and Queens Park Rangers at the Swansea.com stadium on Tuesday, 8 November 2022. The Swans Under 21s secured their fifth consecutive win with a comprehensive 4-0 win over their QPR counterparts at a sodden Swansea.com stadium. A first half …