Thurlby Tigers Football Club
Thurlby Tigers FC is an FA Charter Standard Development Club, offering family friendly and inclusive football in Thurlby near Bourne.
Safe, postive and fun
Thurlby Tigers Football Club’s aim is to provide a safe, secure environment and endeavours to give the highest standard of football coaching that helps children to develop life skills as well as learn the sport, improve, enjoy and continuing playing football into their adult life.
We aspire to offer the very best footballing opportunities for each individual and as a club we take great pride in providing young players a pathway into the senior team
Most importantly, let’s have fun!


Football for all
We are a completely inclusive club offering a football Academy for Boys and Girls, U7’s through to U18’s in either mixed or Girls only squads and open age football.
Our ethos ensures that we are known throughout the local area as a welcoming club and we have a zero tolerance policy for any situations that go against this ethos.
Our primary objective is to ensure ALL players are developed to maximise their potential in the game, and the life skills the game can enhance, while in a safe, fun and enjoyable environment.
Join the academy
In 2008 “The Academy” was formed, for children in Years 1 and 2 at school, It proved to be incredibly popular and ensured a clear footballing pathway for children of a young age in the community.
Year on year we now offer an academy for children Reception – U7 age groups. These children then move on to form the U8 squads of the following years.


A club for life
Since 2006 the club has grown to see over 350 playing members and this year we will have the Academy of U5’s, U6’s and U7’s children alongside our squads representing every age group from U8’s to U18’s and the men’s team.
We continue to work with The FA on our developmental plan which includes female only sides, disability inclusive squads, veterans and walking football.
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We’re always looking for young leaders interested in becoming a DofE Volunteer
We have recently invested heavily in some of our coaches.
Learn how to become a Thurlby Tiger sponsor.




Meet the coaches
We ensure all coaches are committed to provide the best quality coaching and they are encouraged to constantly improve their qualifications either through CPD or further FA qualifications.

Dale Falkner,
U8’s Coach

Phil Smith
U9 Oranges coach

John Harrison
U13’s Coach

Baz Gray
U14s Coach
Player vacancies
These are the teams that are currently looking for players, however all teams are looking to take on training players. Visit the team page for more details.