Nailsea United currently have five male teams, all of which play at the Grove Sports Centre, Whiteoak Way, Nailsea, Bristol (map). We also have a ladies team, who train weekly and hope to commence competitive football in the 2006/07 season.

First Team - Somerset Senior League Premier Division

Reserve Team - Somerset Senior League Division Two

"A" Team - Weston Super Mare & District League Division One

"B" Team - Weston Super Mare & District League Division Three

Colts - Weston Super Mare & District League Division Five

Nailsea United Football Club - Here and now and the future

So here are a few facts about Nailsea United Football Club. It’s well over 100 years old. It’s a well-run Club full of committed, dedicated and enthusiastic local people who give freely of their own time to make the Club a success. It has five adult teams and a ladies team, providing organised football and a social focus for over 140 Nailsea footballers. It’s a Club whose strength is its genuine togetherness and collective spirit. It’s a Club with established close links with its Junior Club partner, which has a further 250 footballers and has a bourgeoning youth policy providing the opportunity for youngsters of 16 and above to make the seamless transition from Youth to Adult football. It’s a Club that will be striving to achieve FA Charter status over the next 12 months. It’s a club that yearns to advance.

Let’s have a look at the aims and objectives of the Club;

· Above all, encourage all its members to enjoy themselves and have fun.
· Provide organised football for the adults and youth of Nailsea and surrounding area.
· Seriously commit to the health and safety of its members.
· Understand, appreciate and respect the long history of the Club.
· Take a professional approach to everything we do.
· Strive for the best possible playing standards we can possibly achieve.
· Promote the qualities of openness, honesty, understanding, communication, dedication and enthusiasm within the Club.

These are the fundamental values we hold dear at the Club and values we will continue to abide by. They constitute the foundation on which our Club is built and will continue to govern our progress.

So what of progress? The key word here is aspiration. Every Football Club, no matter how big or how small must have aspirations. Aspiration is what drives effort, loyalty, drive and ambition. Whether you are 7 or 37, there should always be something at your Club for you to aspire to. This is the essence of competitive sport.

Nailsea is a comparatively big place with a prosperous population of over 20,000 and should have a Football Club competing at Regional level and not just at County and District level. The stronger the Club is at its most senior level the stronger it will be per se. On the field, the Club is committed to providing an attractive and enjoyable playing environment, ensuring its players are managed and coached properly. If we continue to deliver this, we will always have the players with sufficient talent who will stay with us. What we will owe them in return for this loyalty are the off the field facilities that are mandatory to advance and sustain progress.

In 2004 we set out a realistic development plan to deliver these facilities and we are so very close to meeting the minimum required criteria for advancement. Over the next 12 months we must improve our dressing room facilities and a massive effort has been made over the past 18 months to negotiate the labyrinth of planning permissions and lease requirements. We have some remaining hurdles to jump but hopefully the most major have been negotiated.

I am totally convinced the Club will reach its goal and it is days like our Showboat that will help make it happen. All of the Club will benefit from the improvements we are striving for, so every penny the Club makes as profit will ultimately improve every player’s experience at the Club and make it something Nailsea can be proud of.

I am so encouraged by the way in which the Club’s membership contributes so readily to our goal – long may this continue! We are on the cusp of making it happen, so keep on supporting the Club and our aims will become reality.

Spencer Lee
Club Chairman
May 2006