The village of Barrow has had a thriving junior football set up for over 25 years. At the end of the 2017/18 season the Barrow Town and Barrow Juniors committees merged in order to form one club.
The 2021-2022 season saw the junior section of the club affiliate 23 teams, with three of the teams additionally participating in FUTSAL (high tempo five-a-side football). The club has teams from an academy school under-6s up to the Under 15s League. All teams presently play at the Riverside Ground but occasionally teams play at Humphrey Perkins School.
Should you wish your child to join the great footballing family that is at the Riverside ground please contact us and we will be very happy to put you in touch with the relevant manager.
Barrow Town FC is one of the few clubs in the County to be a single club. This came about with the merging of Barrow Town Juniors FC and Barrow Town FC. Although the two clubs have worked together over many years; it was only in June 2018 that both clubs became one.
It was recognised early 2018 that it was impossible for the football clubs to survive financially and volunteer wise without a road map for the future. In joining together, the future is now secure. Joining together has brought in ’new blood’ resulting in costs and manpower savings and opened new avenues for income and funding streams.
A Short History of Barrow Town FC Junior Section.
Barrow Town FC’s Junior Section has evolved since the late 1990s to become one of the largest Junior Football Sections in the County.
The Junior Section has come a long way since the 1990s when the village boasted two Junior clubs, Barrow Juniors playing at the Riverside ground and Barrow Rangers playing at Humphrey Perkins School. In the early 2000s it was concluded that for a village the size of Barrow it was folly to be running two clubs with all the resources that required.
A meeting was called and a vote by all the members of both clubs voted unanimously to merge and to be henceforth be known as Barrow Town Youth FC. With the formation of the new club, we were able to secure funding from the Football Foundation to improve the clubhouse and facilities.
