Our Talented Youth Programe

This vibrant programme is geared to meet the needs of our young talented players. Players taking part in the Scottish Football Youth Initiative programme have aspirations to play at professional clubs.

The partnership between the Scottish FA, Scottish Football League and Scottish Premier League has been developing over the past four years and there is now an established coaching and games programme throughout the country.

Our professional clubs work extremely hard to ensure every player engaged in their programmes receive an experience that will give them every opportunity to each “their” full potential.

The games structure is very much a developmental approach with 4 v 4, 7 v 7 followed by full 11-a-side matches. Our clubs have accepted that this structure is more conducive to developing game awareness. Many young players have come through this structure and have attained full-time contracts with senior clubs and, on top of this, reached every young boy’s dream of playing for his country.