Need a little help re under 23's

[bobbo]

I watched the under 23's Saturday at Wealdstone, but can't find any report or future fixtures for them . Can anyone advise me please.

[Apprentice to the Maestro]

In the same news post as the announcement of the Wealdstone game it listed a game against Chesham:

    http://www.fulhamfc.com/news/2017/july/04/fulham-xi-fixtures

n.b. these were listed as 'Fulham XI' games, not u23s. I cannot see anything else as yet.

[bobbo]

Thanks apprentice 👍

[love4ffc]

It looks like the FA has changed the PL2 from under 21 to under 23 for the 2017/2018 season.  There will be two divisions with in the PL2 with Fulham being in division 2. 

The fixtures for the upcoming season have not been released yet and it does not say when they will be released. 

More info here if interested:
https://www.premierleague.com/news/58764

[rweller86]

It looks like the FA has changed the PL2 from under 21 to under 23 for the 2017/2018 season.  There will be two divisions with in the PL2 with Fulham being in division 2. 

The fixtures for the upcoming season have not been released yet and it does not say when they will be released. 

More info here if interested:
https://www.premierleague.com/news/58764

Was that not the case last season too?! They were the (U23) Development Squad?

[Apprentice to the Maestro]

It looks like the FA has changed the PL2 from under 21 to under 23 for the 2017/2018 season.  There will be two divisions with in the PL2 with Fulham being in division 2. 

The fixtures for the upcoming season have not been released yet and it does not say when they will be released. 

More info here if interested:
https://www.premierleague.com/news/58764

It is rather awkwardly worded on the PL site:

"Premier League 2 [PL2] is a new competition that replaced the Under-21 Premier League from 2016/17 . . "

Actually the PL2 as a (mainly) u23 competition came in last year. See

    http://www.fulhamfc.com/pl2/2016_2017/fixtures

[Apprentice to the Maestro]

I think that there are not any U23 games as such yet is because quite a few players have not yet returned to pre-season training as they are or have been away playing international competitions and most of the u23s are away in Poland with the first team.

Having said that the club have just put up a report on the Wealdstone match as a U23 game!:

    http://www.fulhamfc.com/news/2017/july/10/u23s-lose-tight-friendly-to-wealdstone

[cmg]

There's also footage of the u18 games:
http://www.fulhamfc.com/news/2017/july/10/u18-match-action-peterborough

...loads of goals, some of them pretty good. Although my favourite bit is the one that, presumably, caused the coach to tear his hair out, when the young centre-forward, through elegant footwork and trickery, turns a one-on-one into a one-on-six with predictable result.