🤩 Our 2024 Victory Shield squad 💚 #GAWA

Congratulations to Northern Ireland U16s who beat Scotland 1-0 in the Victory Shield 👏 Coran Madden with the winner ⚽️ #GAWA

👏🏻 Great performance and win for the Northern Ireland U16s. Thank you to our sponsor Science in Sport for their continued support and fuelling the squad.

A quality week away with a topclass group of players and staff. To come so close to lifting the trophy is naturally disappointing, but the bigger picture it was a great experience for the players development. As always with youth development…trust the process 🟢⚪️

McGovern ⚽️⚽️ & McCann ⚽️ were on target for our Under-17s at Seaview yesterday in a 3-1 win over Scotland 🙌🏻🟢⚪️ #GAWA #U17s

Darragh McCann will be hoping to add to his goal tally today as our U17s take on Republic of Ireland at Seaview, 6pm ⏳ It’s free entry so come down to cheer the boys on if you can 🙏🟢⚪️ #GAWA #U17s

👏🏻 No better feeling! What a result, what a group of players and into the next round 🟢⚪️ #GAWA

Back-to-back 3-1 wins in our U17 Euro qualifiers secure our place in Round 2 League A with a game to spare! 💪👏 #GAWA #U17s

Our Under-17s take on Lithuania tomorrow at Seaview, KO 3pm ⏳ Free entry 🙌🏻🟢⚪️ #GAWA #U17s

REPORT 📄 Top of the group for our Under-17s 🔝 irishfa.com/news/2024/nove…

Goals from Mason Ayre, Michael Mulholland & Padai O’Kane helped Northern Ireland’s U15 team claim the overall title at a UEFA development tournament today🏆 irishfa.com/news/2024/dece…

‘IFA’s Academy pits best against best… it’s ideal to help young Northern Ireland players realise their true potential’ ✒️ Steven Beacom belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/sp…

An excellent article from FIFA offering insight into the Royal Belgian FA Futures programme that supports the development and retention of late maturing players fifatrainingcentre.com/en/practice/gr…

Pilot study from David Johnson Kristoffer S. Roksvaag looking at the impact of a brief educational workshop and educational resources on scouts abilities to differentiate between early, on time and late maturing players (1/3) sportperfsci.com/the-impact-of-…

Our U17s drew 1-1 with Poland tonight in the opening match of their preparation tournament in Spain 💚 A great performance from the team 👏 Sidney Eldred with the goal ⚽️ #GAWA

The future is bright 🤩🟢⚪️ Galgorm Irish FA

A brilliant week away with the U15s squad and another important development oppourtinity for the squad.

The 1st NI futures programme training session. The NI futures programme will group players based upon their growth and maturation status. This will ensure we maximise and support the development of both early and late developing players.

Brilliant evening as always, hard to believe that’s another season done! Well done everyone 👌🏻👏🏻

🎥 Irish FA Lead Physical Performance Coach Simon Coleman explains the benefits of the new NI Futures Programme Grouping young players by biological maturity, not just age, as part of our ever evolving player pathway ⚽️