FC BUCKLEBURY COUGARS

Youth Football For Boys and Girls aged between 6 and 16, and womens football for over 16s in Bucklebury, Thatcham and West Berkshire

FC Bucklebury Cougars

FC Bucklebury Cougars are a fun and friendly football club based in Bucklebury and Thatcham in West Berkshire. We welcome boys and girls of all abilities who are keen to play regular football, and also run an adult ladies team.

We have teams in the Reading and West Berkshire League and the Peter Houseman Youth League. All our teams play home and away fixtures on Sundays and run additional training sessions during the week. Please see our team pages for more details on times and locations. We are a non-profit community football club run entirely by volunteers.

This Week For FC Cougars

Age Date Time Type Venue

FA Accredited

The FA

FC Cougars are an English FA accredited club. We are affiliated with Berks and Bucks FA.

We are fully insured for public liability and for youth football personal accident.

All our managers and coaches have active enhanced DBS checks and safeguarding qualifications, and we help all coaches gain suitable FA qualifications.

FC Cougars - We only do positive

NEWS: Presentation Day 2025

23 May 2025

Our annual end of season presentation day will be the morning of Sunday 15 June 2025 from 10am, at Bucklebury Recreation Ground, and all our players will receive personalised trophies using photos taken at our club photoshoot.

If you ordered photos for club delivery these will be available for collection at our presentation day.

We will hold some activities on the field, including speed shot, to raise some money for the club with prizes for the highest scores by age group. Refreshments will also be on sale, so please bring down some money - card payment will also be available.

We also already have some great prizes this year for our raffle, but if you could donate prizes please bring them along on the day.

Volunteers will be needed to run the activities and to help with refreshments.

If you could bake or donate a cake for sale please let us know!

For updates on presentation day and on team spaces please visit our website or Facebook page.

NEWS: Spaces in our teams

22 May 2025

We have limited spaces for new players - please contact us to find out more if your child would be interested in playing for any of our teams.

Our teams, and their school years from September 2025, are as follows:

  • Under 6s (year 1) - Starting Spring 2026
  • Under 7s (year 2) - SPACES
  • Under 8s (year 3) - SPACES
  • Under 9s (year 4) - SPACES
  • Under 10s (year 5) -PLEASE ENQUIRE
  • Under 12s (years 6/7) - PLEASE ENQUIRE
  • Under 13s Girls (years 7/8) - SPACES
  • Under 13s (year 8) - LAST SPACES
  • Under 14s (year 9) - PLEASE ENQUIRE
  • Under 16s (years 10/11) - FULL
  • Sabres Women (Women aged 16+) - SPACES

NEWS: Players Wanted For New Girls Team

21 May 2025

NEWS: McDonalds Sponsor FC Cougars

04 Dec 2020

McDonalds We are delighted to announce that McDonalds have become a key sponsor of the club. McDonalds have supplied our U13 team kit, training kit, and will be helping FC Cougars to provide FA qualifications for our coaches and volunteers.

"As a local McDonald's Franchisee and as someone who played on the very same pitches as a child, I'm extremely proud to sponsor FC Cougars and support them with the kit and access to coaching qualifications they need to get all the fun and enjoyment that is possible from grassroots football" - Richard Forte, Fortress Operations Ltd.

Thank you to our club sponsors:

McDonalds Oscura EPC