The Fulham Academy, headed by Huw Jennings, runs along the lines of many of the English football academies as deemed appropriate by the national governing body, the FA. Players dealt with by the academy can be aged as young as nine years old. As part of their training, young players are guided with the aim to gain a BTEC and NVQ qualification.
It was run by Steve Kean who upon Chris Coleman's appointment as first team Manager in summer 2003 was named as his assistant. The new manager has been Paul Nevin and currently Billy McKinlay as the development team squad, with Huw Jennings as director of the academy. It is based at Fulham's training ground in Motspur Park.
Academy squad
(As of the 2009/10 season) [1]
| No. |
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Position |
Player |
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DF |
Suliaman Bangura |
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GK |
Marcus Bettinelli |
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 |
FW |
Jonathan Cosgrove |
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MF |
Jack Dean |
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MF |
Courtney Harris |
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 |
MF |
Reece Jones |
|
 |
GK |
Jesse Joronen |
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DF |
Michael Kamau |
|
 |
DF |
Christian Marquez-Sanchez |
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The U18s/Youth Team Manager is Gary Brazil
Academy 'graduates'
Still at Fulham
Now playing elsewhere
- Sean Davis, now at Bolton Wanderers via Portsmouth and Tottenham. Scored once in twelve games for the England U21s, has been a non-playing squad member for the full national team.
- Liam Fontaine, now at Bristol City.
- Adam Green, now at Woking.
- Elvis Hammond, now at Cheltenham Town, has played for Ghana.
- Zat Knight, the ex vice-captain now at Bolton Wanderers
- Dean Leacock, now at Derby.
- Zeshan Rehman, now at Bradford, has played for Pakistan.
- Liam Rosenior, now at Reading.
- Michael Timlin, now at Swindon Town and the captain of the Ireland U21s.
- TJ Moncur, now at Wycombe.
- Troy Brown, now at Ipswich.
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