Arsenal Football Development 2025

Overview

• Location: 4 venues: Oundle (near Peterborough), Seaford College (West Sussex), Worth (Sussex) and Ardingly (near Crawley)
• Ages and genders: 9-17 years old (boys and girls)
• Levels: Beginner-Intermediate

Academy / Club history

Arsenal Football Club is one of the most successful clubs in England. Their impressive track record includes 13 Football League and Premier League championships, 13 FA Cups, 2 League Cups and one UEFA Cup Winners Cup trophy, as well as dozens of other minor and regional trophies.They also hold the record for being the only Premier League champion to have remained unbeaten for an entire season (2003-2004).

The club also has an impressive budget and fanbase. In fact, they’re the ninth-highest earning football club in the world, and they’ve got the fifth largest fanbase. Each year, hundreds of young Arsenal FC fans travel from all around the world to the club’s summer soccer camps to learn to play the Arsenal way.

Training

• Skill level: All levels (Beginner-Intermediate)
• Other soccer education features: Nutritional and psychological guidance, physical conditioning
• Students per training group: 10 students
• Training language: English
• Training intensity - Football + English Program: 2/5
• Training intensity - Intensive Program: 3.5/5

Soccer training at the Arsenal Football Development camps is designed for boys and girls from 9-17 years old of all skill levels. Coaches assess the participants’ skills during the first few days of camp. Then, they sort the players into small groups of ten according to their age and skill level. This way, campers are sure to participate in drills and activities specific to their ability.

The primary objective of Arsenal Football Development Camps is to teach participants to play The Arsenal Way. In fact, training curriculum is designed by the Arsenal Development Lead Coach which means participants learn according to the same curriculum as Arsenal FC’s official youth team. That being said, the camp considers fun a top priority, which means the soccer training sessions can best be described as light and entertaining.

Participants work on technical and tactical aspects of their game according to Arsenal FC’s methodology and philosophy. Some technical aspects they work on include passing, dribbling, shooting, and headers. Tactical skills include teamwork and communication, spatial awareness, vision, and field coverage, and the ability to adapt to different situations.

Participants at the Arsenal Football Development Camps also get the opportunity to participate in friendly soccer matches so they can put into practice what they learn during their training sessions.

Training Facilities

• Training surface: Natural grass
• Additional training facilities: Swimming pool
• Quality: 3/5

The Arsenal Football Development Camps offered at all three venues have all the necessary training facilities for coaching youth soccer. Facilities include full size, well-kept, natural grass soccer fields.

Language Classes

• Native teachers: 70% Native
• Hours per week: 15 hours
• Quality of the classes: Medium

Camp Schedule

The following schedule demonstrates a typical day at camp. The exact camp schedule will most likely vary from day to day.

Accommodation

• Name of the facilities: 4 venues: three Oundle (near Peterborough), Seaford College (West Sussex), Worth (Sussex) and Ardingly (near Crawley)
• Location (distance from training facilities): None, training facilities and accommodation located on the same campus
• Types of rooms: Shared between 2 - 6 participants
• Bathrooms (private or shared): Shared among 4 to 6 participants
• Quality: 4/5

The Arsenal Football Development Camps take place at four different venues:  Oundle (near Peterborough), Seaford College (West Sussex), Worth (Sussex) and Ardingly (near Crawley). All four venues are college or prep school campuses complete with comfortable student residences and excellent sports training facilities making them ideal venues for the Arsenal Football Development Camps.

While each venue offers the summer camp participants a slightly different experience, accommodation arrangements and amenities are quite similar. Students are typically placed in double, triple, or quadruple rooms, which means rooms are shared among two, three, or four students. Students sleep in single/twin beds. Bathrooms and showers are located down the hall and are shared among four to six students.

These venues also accommodate students participating in summer camps for other sports and activities like tennis, rugby, theater, horseback riding, etc. Participants in the Arsenal Football Development Camps get the opportunity to meet students in other programs. During the afternoon hours, they share the colleges’ additional facilities (tennis courts, volleyball courts, swimming pools, Ping-Pong and foosball tables, etc.) and participate in various activities.

Lastly, the summer camp participants are well-cared-for during their stay. The monitor to student ratio is one to four which means monitors are able to offer more individualized attention to the campers.

Prices and Dates

The official rate of this program is determined in POUNDS so the final amount in other currencies may vary slightly due to currency fluctuation.

Starting Dates

*A girls-only programme is available at this site.

Improved booking conditions for all camps

This 2025 make your reservation more easily and with less risk

• We´ve lowered the deposit required to reserve your camp to just 500€
• Free cancellation until March 1st
• Money-back guarantee within 10 days
• Optional insurances

*Please note that if a visa is required to attend camp, it will be necessary to pay the total amount of the program

Extra Services

You can purchase one of the extra services below at an additional cost.

Camp Insurance

We offer two insurance options based on your needs:

• Cancellation and Interruption Insurance: This option allows you to get your money back if you have to cancel or interrupt the camp for any justified reason, including injury or illness of participants both before and during the camp (the policy contains 35 different causes for justified cancellations).
• Travel/Medical Insurance: With this insurance policy, you will be covered for medical assistance abroad and possible expenses caused by health-related issues, as well as other contingencies such as lost luggage or an unforeseen flight change.

  Download the following PDF to learn more about each insurance options terms and conditions, coverage features, and price.

  Camp Insurance
  

  Transfer Service:

  There are two types of transfer services available that we´ll detail for you below:

• Standard transfer service: the camp offers an optional transfer service for participants who request it from the nearest airport to the residence (or vice versa). Check with Ertheo for schedules and prices for this service.
• Special transfer with additional unaccompanied minor service: participants who fly to camp alone and have contracted the unaccompanied minor service with their airline must hire this special transfer with accompaniment so that the child isn´t left alone in the airport. Check with Ertheo for schedules and prices of this service.

Contact Ertheo for prices and additional information.

• Nearest airport / train station: 
• Depends on location selected

Transportation to the camp (flights/trains) is not included in the price of our programs.