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program and squad structure that allows the The extended ground improvements, which
youth team players from the Junior Section have been completed in the last 3 years, have
under 16’s and upwards, to train together given us the required ground grading to
with Development and First Team players allow our First Team to be invited to enter
enabling a consistent style of coaching and the FA Cup for the 2017-18 season, for the
play throughout the club. The benefit of this first time in the club’s history. Unfortunate-
is huge and has seen players who have been ly falling at the first hurdle and going out
with the club since they were 6 going on to at our first attempt. This game saw a player
play regular first team football. 2017/18 saw who started as an under 6 at the club’s Soc-
the first Ladies side at Eversley, playing in cer School play FA Cup football, exactly what
the Thames Valley Counties Women’s Foot- football dreams are made of!
ball League Division One, finishing 4th in Missed out on qualification
their first season, a great achievement. The
Ladies have continued their quest for suc- The 2018/19 season saw The Boars just
cess and in the curtailed 19/20 season they miss out on qualification for the first round
reached the Hampshire County Intermediate proper of the FA Vase, having won their first
Cup Final, with every chance of lifting their two pre-qualifying rounds, including taking
first piece of silverware. 2019/20 also the in- the scalp of Lymington Town, the week be-
troduction of Veteran’s Football, with many fore Lymington played in a televised FA Cup
of the team who secured promotion to the game.
Combined Counties League in 2009 return- The club has now laid firm foundations
ing to the club to play their football, albeit at which will allow a sustained period of devel-
a slower pace! opment as we plan for the future….