About Bleak Hill Rovers

Bleak Hill Rovers Junior Football Club is based in Eccleston, St. Helens, in N.W. England. St. Helens, which is undoubtedly best known for its centuries-old association with the glass industry and for its top-flight rugby team 'St. Helens Rugby League Football Club "The Saints".

St. Helens is situated around 10 miles from Liverpool and around 20 miles from Manchester, so its hardly surprising that the majority of our young footballers' heroes are the stars of the surrounding Premiership clubs such as Liverpool FC, Manchester United FC, Everton FC, Manchester City FC, Bolton Wanderers (and even Wigan!)

Bleak Hill Rovers JFC is affiliated to Liverpool County F.A. and is represented in several local Junior Leagues; The St. Helens & Rainhill Junior Alliance caters for our mini-soccer teams at Under 7s, 8s, 9s & 10s and allows mixed girl/boy teams. Our boys teams at U13s, U14s, U15s and U16s are represented in the Wigan & District Youth Football League. We also have boys at U11s and U13s competing in the Warrington Youth League. Our girls at U12s, U14s & U16s play in the Liverpool County FA Girls League. Our Under 17s boys play in the South Lancs League. Our club colours are yellow and navy and our home ground (except girls' football which is played on Heron Eccles, Allerton) are played on Ecclesfield Recreation Ground in Eccleston, St. Helens.

Bleak Hill Rovers JFC has a long history of providing well-organised junior football to literally thousands of youngsters for over 30 years. The Club has always tried to encourage its players to develop good ethics and a sound attitude to competitive sport. Our Constitution sets out the Club's aims, objectives and policies relating to Equal Opportunities, Anti-Discrimination and Child Protection Procedures, to help ensure that we provide well-structured football activities in a safe and healthy environment.

Bleak Hill Rovers JFC is a friendly Club that caters for boys and girls all ages from Under 5s through to Under 18s. It's a club that prides itself on 'forging long-lasting friendships'. Many of our players have gone right through from U7s to U18s and many past-players are still firm friends today in their late thirties. Whilst the Club welcomes sporting success (and every manager/coach is well aware that the basic requirement of competitive football is to win matches), the Club does not promote a 'win-at-all-costs' attitude that places undue pressure on young heads and denies enjoyment. Enjoying the highs and experiencing the lows in junior sport, is one of its valuable strengths in preparing us for the competitive adult life ahead and the challenges it will pose. After all, football should be fun, and it can be, provided we strike the right balance.