Swansea City News, Match Reports & Academy
Swansea City Under 18s news, match reports and galleries. Follow the young Swans as they progress through the Academy.
Although I could stay only for the first half before wandering down to the main stadium for the Norwich game, here’s a partial view of this U18s contest to the interval. We greeted back a number of our age grade internationals and notably rotated the side and to offer what looked to be quite strong …
A couple of quick-fire goals late in the game provided a convincing win for a young Swans side here at sunny Landore. Fleetwood had briefly threatened an unlikely late comeback when they took advantage of a soft penalty award to bring the score to 3-2 with just over 10 minutes remaining. A late resurgence by a …
A really unusual match – we went 2 up early in the 2nd half but collapsed after Barnsley made some effective substitutions and sprung into life. The visitors could count themselves unlucky not to take full points from the game. It’s very rare to see our academy side completely lose control of the ball in …
A surprisingly comfortable opening win for our young U18s today at a sunny Landore over an increasingly frustrated Sheffield Wednesday side. Centre half Lawal had already been booked before he launched himself into a wild challenge on Bobby Lewis where he was never going to win the ball, getting himself sent off after 54 minutes. …
Our U18 team kicked off its opening publicised friendly today in the sweltering heat at Stebonheath. Our youngsters faced a Llanelli side full of new faces after a relegation to Cymru South and the loss of most of last season’s squad. Terry Boyle remains in charge of the Reds. We featured some familiar players from …
Our U18 team’s final home match of this season proved to be a disappointing affair. There was no teamsheet (again) and the tannoy hasn’t worked since November, but that’s OK, as there was no one present to do any announcements, anyway. The academy experience lately seems to be taking the form of an article of …
On a day when Coventry competed on 3 different pitches in Swansea, our young U18s side fell short at the death in this encounter at Landore. The club administration seems quite unable to perform more than one task at any one time, so there was no teamsheet today. The visitors haven’t reported the game on …
It was sunny for a change in Landore and, given QPR are one off the bottom of the PDL2 South division and we’d beaten them 7-2 away earlier in the campaign, the portents seemed encouraging. However, we were missing players such as Josiah Kallicharan, away on international duty, and fielded a very young squad. Bobby …
A remarkable win today against visitors Charlton, who always provide a strong opposition and went into today’s game 4 points clear at the top of the U18s PDL South league. We were 4th in the table this morning but fielding a very young side today. Bobo Evans was the only starter to be selected from …
A disappointing outcome to an entertaining if frustrating evening at the stadium. As expected, coach Jon Beale made a number of changes to the squad that played at the weekend against Cardiff City. There were 6 changes in total and Billy Clarke reverted to right back from right wing. We were missing promising U16 midfielder …