Broughty United Youth Football Club

.: quality mark

The Scottish FA Quality Mark is a youth football initiative which supports grassroots club development. With over 400 Scottish clubs and schools already participating, over 8500 coaches have directly benefited from coach development and first aid training to date.

With the support of partners at McDonald's and the Big Lottery Fund, the Scottish FA works with grassroots clubs and schools to broaden and increase youth and community participation as well as enhancing player, coach and volunteer development.

Broughty Utd YFC attained the Standard Award in 2006. The Standard Award ensures that basic club operating standards are in place. Putting basic criteria in place will make for a more robust and sustainable club strucuture. By establishing a basic club strucuture, the Scottish FA will continue to work with clubs who wish to grow to "Development Club" status.

Broughty Utd YFC then gained Development status in October 2009. The Development Award shows that the club have demonstrated a commitment to creating a player pathway and to the development of players through a number of age groups including girls’ football. All our teams have a coach that has attained a Level 3 'Coaching In The Game' certificate and 2 coaches have attained the Level 4 'Basic Childrens Award' from the Scottish FA Coach Education & Coach Development Programme.

This award also shows that the Club has demonstrated links to local Primary and Secondary Schools, providing school pupils an opportunity to train or play where a school team does not exist.

In November 2010 the Club were awarded the Community Award which is a huge step in the clubs progress.

The key objective of the Community Award is to ensure that players are encouraged to stay with the Club and continue to play, train and compete at their chosen level whilst developing a sense of Community belonging.

The club currently has nine teams representing children, youths & girls. While we also have links to local adult amateur & Junior football teams. The 'Community Club' status shows that the club is dedicated to seeking and identifying talent, developing this talent, and to produce young players capable of performing at their maximum level.