Foremarke Hall has an excellent tradition in football, which is the boys’ major sport in the Michaelmas Term.
The school runs eleven teams, including five teams between Years 7 and 8, and on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, fixtures are arranged against other independent and local schools. The 1st XI also play in the Rensburg Sheppards ISFA Cup and Derbyshire County Cup whilst the 1st VI competes in the national IAPS Soccer Sixes and prestigious Shrewsbury 6-a-side tournaments along with the U11 team.
In addition to these regular fixtures, we have strong links with local football academies and often have pupils signed to local professional clubs such as Derby, Leicester and Nottingham Forest, and our structured football coaching programme involves fixtures against local academy sides. Historically we have been represented by a large number of players in the West Midlands ISFA squad, which also plays fixtures against academy sides, such as Manchester United, Stoke, Ipswich and Crewe.
Foremarke Hall has three full sized pitches and six junior pitches, which are acknowledged as some of the best on the circuit. Our 1st and 2nd XI pitches on Lakeside and Top Field are of an excellent quality and have hosted games for Derby County’s Academy.
In addition to these prestigious school fixtures, all boys are able to enjoy getting involved in the annual House Football competition, which involves pupils from Year 3 to Year 8 and is always hotly contested.
This summer we will also be hosting our first girls’ football fixtures, as we prepare the girls for Repton, where they compete in 11- and 6-a-side tournaments.