Academy Overview

The Three Kings United Academy vision is to create technically gifted and intelligent young players that can excel for Three Kings, Auckland Football and New Zealand Football.  The Academy focus is solely on establishing and developing three key habits (see Focus & Philosophy document below) specifically designed to effect all areas of the players development in a positive way.  It is purely a developmental tool which provides extra training on top of club team trainings.

The Academy is focused on players from 6th grade to 12th grade, however our elite youth players are also able to access the Academy.

< For additional information on the Academy's Focus & Philosophy click on the document below.>

academy_focus_and_philosophy.pdf

Grouping:

All players that fall between the ages of 6th Grade and 12th Grade will be grouped into single age bands (i.e. 9th Grade Group 1, 9th Grade Group 2 etc).  All players that fall between the ages of 13th Grade and 17th Grade will be grouped into multiple age bands depending on registrations (i.e. 13th – 15th Grade Group 1).

Because the focus topics of the sessions are based around the 3 key habits and 13+ is focused on relating these topics to 11 a side games it enables players to be grouped together.

Academy Payments

Fees for the Academy are:

- 6 & 7th Grade Players - $80 ($10 per person per session)

- 8th Grade to 17th Grade - $96 ($12 per person per session)

Payment is for x8 weekly one hour coaching sessions.

If you have more than one child wishing to attend the Academy there is a family discount payment scheme.

2 Children: $140 (for 6th & 7th Grade) or $170 (for 8th to 17th Grade)

3 Children: $210 (for 6th & 7th Grade) or $255 (for 8th to 17th Grade)

4 Children: $280 (for 6th & 7th Grade) or $340 (for 8th to 17th Grade)

Concession Card Special:

If players are registering from the 6th or 7th Grade a concession card is used.  When you register you will given a card which has 8 sessions on it.  Each time you come to the Academy your coach will clip a session.  Even though you will be given a specific group, time and venue each week, this concession card gives parents flexibility around attendance.  There will be more than 1 weekly time slot for these grades and therefore if you can’t make your designated time slot you can use your card to attend a different time slot that week.  Another alternative is if you are away or sick for a week you can use your concession card to attend 2 sessions a week so you don’t have to lose out on those missed session.

The only condition is the concession card must be used within the 8 week term period.

Academy Registrations

Registrations will open shortly and you will be able to register via clubhub.  All club junior/youth club members will also be sent an email explaining the process of registering for the Academy. 

Academy Schedule

The weekly training schedule will be completed shortly but we are expecting the Academy to run Monday to Friday with two session times.  One first being from 4.20pm till 5.20pm and the second from 5.30pm till 6.30pm.  All sessions will be 60 minutes in duration and based at Keith Hay Park in front of the clubrooms.

Academy Staff

New Director of Junior & Youth Football Paul Temple will be confirming the coaching team for the Academy in the next few weeks.  Paul himself will be coaching and will also be using first team players from the club's premier men's and women's teams plus expert junior/youth coaches.

This page will be updated regularly over the coming weeks as new information becomes available.  Please continue to visit the page for additional information and detail.