Hook United Youth Football Club was founded in 1987 from the merging of Hook Athletic Boys Football Club and Hartletts Park Boys Football Club. The club is based in Hook, Hampshire and uses the facilities of Hartletts Park in the village as its home. In addition some home fixtures are played at pitches in Rotherwick and at RAF Odiham.

The Club's players are drawn primarily from Hook itself, but as the club has become more established new members have joined from the surrounding villages of Hartley Wintney, Rotherwick, North Warnborough, Odiham, Long Sutton, Upton Grey, Mattingley and also various parts of the towns of Basingstoke and Fleet.

Since 1987 the club has been run by successive teams of volunteers focussed on providing a structured approach to enabling, encouraging and promoting youth football in Hook and its surrounding area.

Youth football helps promote an active, healthy lifestyle. It creates bonds and friendships throughout the local community. We aim to encourage as many young people as possible into football. The multi-team mini-soccer format, for the under 7 to under 10 age groups, helps us achieve this. It means that larger numbers of girls and boys can play together in a mixed, less competitive, format.

For 11-a-side football we have a two-tiered approach for most age groups with multiple teams in most age groups. This enables the more advanced players to play at the highest level available to them via HUYFC. This allows players with less experience to participate at a level suitable to their current ability.

Teams play, on average, 20 competitive games during a season in the North East Hants Youth League (NEHYL), which runs from September to April. Matches are typically played within a 20 mile radius of Hook.

Our season is rounded off with an Awards BBQ, with every player receiving a membership memento. There are individual awards for improving players and outstanding performers.

In 2004 HUYFC was awarded FA Charter Standard Club status. With over 300 members, HUYFC is one of the largest FA Charter Standard Clubs for girls' and boys' football in the North Hampshire area. The Charter sets out, as it suggests, a set of standards that covers all aspects of the club such as finance, the number of FA qualified coaches, parent behaviour, and most importantly child protection that a club must achieve and adhere to.

Players – enjoy your football, and be proud of your club. Players' parents, please remember it's amateur youth football!

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