Football clubs & leagues in Aylesbury

Aylesbury, the county town of Buckinghamshire, has a football scene that runs from a senior non-league club with a 19th-century history down to Saturday-morning junior teams and five-a-side pitches. This page brings together the clubs, academies and leagues based in and around the town, drawn from public club and league websites rather than a single official source, since no single body currently lists every team playing under an Aylesbury name.

Senior football clubs in Aylesbury

Aylesbury United FC, nicknamed The Ducks, is the town's senior non-league club and plays in the Southern League Division One Central. The club dates back to 1897, when it formed from a merger of three local sides, Night School, The Printing Works and Aylesbury Town. Its most notable results include a 1988 friendly against the England national team and a win over Southend United in the 1989-90 FA Cup, while its record home attendance, 7,440, was set at a 1951-52 FA Cup tie against Watford. Aylesbury United no longer has a ground inside the town itself; since its former Buckingham Road ground was lost in 2006, the club has groundshared at several venues before settling at Chesham's The Meadow in 2017, where it remains today.

The town's second senior club, Aylesbury Vale Dynamos FC, is based at The Greenfleets Stadium on Haywood Way and plays in the Premier Division of the Spartan South Midlands League. The club has moved between the Spartan South Midlands League and the Southern League over the past two decades, and runs its own junior section, Aylesbury Vale Dynamos Colts, alongside the first team.

Below these two clubs sit a group of Saturday amateur sides playing in the Aylesbury & District Football League (ADL), a competition founded in 1904 with more than 100 member clubs across three divisions. AFC Berryfields, Aylesbury Hearts FC, Aylesbury Vale Toqeers Titans and Aylesbury Town Corinthians FC are among the Aylesbury-based clubs playing in this league. Aylesbury Hearts FC, for example, was founded in 2023 and plays out of the Edinburgh Playing Field on Churchill Avenue as a senior-only side.

Youth football in Aylesbury

Aylesbury United Juniors FC is the largest junior set-up in the town, fielding more than 300 players from its entry-level Mini Ducks programme for three-year-olds through to Under-18s. Its Under-7 to Under-12 teams play in the South Bucks Mini Soccer Conference, while Under-13 to Under-17 teams move up into the Wycombe and South Bucks Minor Football League. The club also runs a PAN Disability section in the Berks, Oxon and Bucks Inclusive League, and is affiliated to the Berkshire & Buckinghamshire FA.

Aylesbury Vale Dynamos Colts provides the youth pathway alongside Aylesbury Vale Dynamos FC, running individual age-group Colts sides rather than a single named youth team. Aylesbury Town Corinthians FC is a further Berks & Bucks FA-affiliated junior and community club based in the town, though its training venue and exact age groups are best confirmed directly with the club.

Women's and girls' football

Aylesbury United Women FC covers the town's women's and girls' football, re-established in 2002 and merged with Vale Reds FC in 2014/15. The club is based at the Fairford Leys Football Pitches on Andrews Way, and runs age groups from an entry-level Wildcats programme through Under-9 to Under-18 (split into Greens, Whites and Golds squads per age band), up to a Ladies first team and three Aylesbury Social Ladies sides. Youth teams compete in the Bucks Girls Football League, and the club holds the FA's top Grass Roots Accreditation alongside FA Charter Standard and England Football Accreditation.

Five-a-side and small-sided football

For casual and league five-a-side and six-a-side football, Powerleague Aylesbury Mandeville operates floodlit 3G pitches at The Mandeville School on Ellen Road. The venue hosts organised leagues alongside pay-and-play bookings, with pitch hire handled through Powerleague's own booking system rather than a phone-only line.

The leagues that cover Aylesbury

Aylesbury's clubs are spread across several tiers of English football. The Southern League, in which Aylesbury United plays, sits at Step 3-4 of the non-league pyramid. The Spartan South Midlands League, home to Aylesbury Vale Dynamos, sits at Step 5-6. Below that, the Aylesbury & District Football League is the main Saturday amateur competition for the town's smaller senior clubs. Youth football runs largely through the Wycombe and South Bucks Minor Football League, alongside the South Bucks Mini Soccer Conference for the youngest age groups and the Bucks Girls Football League for girls' teams. Each league publishes its own fixtures and tables independently, so this directory links out to the league's own site rather than trying to mirror live results.

Who this directory is for

This page exists because no single official source lists every football club playing under an Aylesbury name across senior, youth, women's and small-sided football. A parent looking for a junior team for their child, an adult wanting to join a Saturday club, or someone new to the area trying to work out which of Aylesbury United and Aylesbury Vale Dynamos is the senior side they're thinking of, can use this directory as a starting point before going to the club's own site or social media for sign-up details, training times and current fixtures.

How this directory is compiled

Every club and league listed here is sourced from its own public website, Wikipedia, or the FA's Full-Time results service, with a source link on each club's page. Where a detail such as a ground address or age-group structure couldn't be independently confirmed, the club's page says so directly rather than presenting a guess as fact. Club badges are used for identification only, credited to their source, and removed on request. Club and league information, particularly age groups, divisions and grounds, can change between seasons, so this directory is a starting point rather than a live results service; each club and league's own site is linked for anyone who needs current details. If you run one of these clubs and something here needs correcting, updating, or adding, get in touch via the About page.

A brief history of Aylesbury United

Aylesbury United's best FA Cup run came in 1994-95, when the club reached the third round. Its record goalscorer is Cliff Hercules, who scored 301 goals between 1984 and 2002, while Jack Wood holds the club's appearance record, passing 670 games since 2010. The club plays in home colours of white shoulders with an orange and black body, and an orange-and-black away kit. Since 2009, the Aylesbury United Supporters' Trust has held control of the club, and its members continue to campaign under the banner #BringTheDucksHome for a permanent return to a ground inside the town, more than fifteen years after Buckingham Road was lost.

That search for a home ground is a recurring theme in the club's recent history: after leaving Buckingham Road, Aylesbury United played spells in Leighton Buzzard and Thame before returning to Chesham in 2017. The club's various sections, men's, women's, junior and walking football, are run under one umbrella, so a player moving up from Aylesbury United Juniors into adult football, or a walking football player joining through the Thames Valley Walking Football League, is still part of the same overall club rather than a separate one.

Aylesbury Vale Dynamos traces its roots back to the 1930s, joining the Aylesbury & District League in 1954 under an earlier name before eventually forming the club known today. It joined the Spartan South Midlands League in 2000, was promoted as far as the Southern League Division One Central in 2009-10, and returned to the Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division in 2018-19, where it has played since. Its home kit is a red-and-white striped shirt with white shorts and socks, and its away kit is a black shirt with a white collar, black shorts and socks.