English Schools' Football Association
The English Schools Football Association is the governing body of schools' football in England, and is responsible for the running and development of schools competitions and festivals for boys and girls at primary and secondary school age.
The FA works with ESFA to support high quality, coordinated inter-school football competition programmes for all young people. The Association run national competitions from U11 to U19 age groups. This provides opportunities for young people to have the experience of playing at a higher level by representing their schools in a national recognised competition with all of the finals taking place at professional Stadia.
The ESFA also co-ordinate the advancement of players all the way to International level, for England Schoolboys (u18) and England Schoolgirls (u15)teams. The process for representation follows this pattern; School teams nominate the best few players to go forward for County (or District) trials, from these a County team is formed. The county associations will then nominate players to go forward to regional (North, Midlands, South-west, South-east) trials and from these players an International squad is selected.
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