Our Development Team's (formerly U21) coaching staff have been busy over the close season; attracting a number of major signings to the Club as follows:

Jack Alton – Age 19 - ex Barnsley Youth Team midfielder - an exciting technical midfielder with excellent pedigree. A BIG signing!

Declan Allchin - Age 18 - ex York City WYDC - a pacey technical versatile left footed player.

Connor Atkinson - Age 18 - ex FC Halifax Town Youth Team - ball winning and ball playing centre midfielder. Doesn’t know the meaning of the phrase "a backwards step"!

Dan Booth - Age 16 – ex York City FC WYDC - brave goalkeeper with excellent shot stopping abilities. Watch out in due course for this boy!

Andrew Dickinson – Age 18 – ex Harrogate Town U21s - pacey right back.

Alex Diggle – Age 17 – ex Harrogate Town U18s – ball playing holding centre midfielder.

Callum Dobson – Age 19 – ex Leeds United Academy – technical centre midfielder with good physical presence.

Fabian Evans – Age 26 – ex Leeds United Academy and Halifax 1st Team – experienced, very quick left back with excellent pedigree. Another significant signing!

Alex Haigh – Age 19 – ex Robin Hood 1st Team - defensive midfielder.

Seth Hartley – Age 16 – ex Leeds United Academy – extremely quick striker. Similar player in style to Jamie Vardy!

Harold Monkam – Age 20 – ex Robin Hood 1st Team – extremely quick centre half – and we mean QUICK!

Sam Ola – Age 16 – ex York City FC WYDC – 6 foot 4 inch centre half with excellent physical presence. Centre halves don't come much bigger!

Nathan Owen – Age 19 – ex Huddersfield Town Academy – very technical midfielder. A potential game changing player!

In addition the following York City FC WYDC 16 year-olds have joined the Garforth Town fold to continue their football education, play in the FA Youth Cup and WYDC games programme and hopefully push on into the Garforth Town Development Team as they mature:

Defenders - Dan Bateson, Fin Pickard and Tom Turnbull.

Midfielders – Callum Dean, Kasim Janghir and Gurjeveen Sandhu.

Attackers – Joel Cartledge, Wesley Gibrill-Keating and Harry Pickup.

The Development Team will this season compete in the Lancashire League (a reserve league in which Garforth's former RIASA-run reserve side competed back in 2013-14).

Garforth Town Development Team player coach Lee Coulthard has this to say on the up and coming season: “The Lancashire League will provide a very stiff test for us this season – it's an open-age league and the teams are mostly drawn from Evo Stik and Conference North clubs. We are making no predictions, we will leave that to Mystic Meg, but we feel that we have assembled a strong squad and can't wait for the season to start.”

The Young Miners kick-off the new season at 8pm on Thursday 24th August at home to Hyde , early fixtures can be found here.