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Comets Sports Club was established in 1974. It offers boys and girls of all cultures, races and abilities the opportunity to participate in organised football from Under 6 to adult age groups. It is a Football Association Charter Standard Club. The award for which was presented at the Watford Football Club Vicarage Road Stadium in 2006.
Comets is a growing club and has over 40 FA qualified and CRB checked volunteers, none of whom take any wage or payment for their efforts or time. We have approximately 300 players, who are all offered weekly coaching and match day games, which in the main are on Sundays.
We encourage family orientated activities based on inclusion and team play. In 2006 we held a family weekend in Great Yarmouth, attended by over 150 members of our club. The previous year saw our U12 team travelling to Hemel Hempstead's twin town of Neu-Isenburg in Germany where it fared extremely well in a tournament there. Many of our teams regularly grace major tournaments, such as those organised by R&T Tours, all over the South and East of England such as Clacton, Bournemouth, etc, during school holiday periods.
Our contribution is measured in the quality of our service to the community. We are proud to offer weekly coaching sessions to a disabled group of players and organise games with other Hertfordshire clubs for this enthusiastic group, who would otherwise not get the chance to experience team football and are now an integral part of our annual 6-a-side tournament, playing against other teams of similar ability.
Comets had a girls squad of about 25, ranging in ages from 6 to 16, and in 2007 we held a “fun day tournament style” event at Longdean School which was supported by all the girls and the club. Unfortunately, this Squad folded for various reasons. But the Comets Sports Club retained the belief that there was an increasing demand for girls football and still see it as an area for growth and way of increasing our ties with the local community. So the club have gone back to basics and now have an U7’s girls team who actively play in the West Herts Youth League alongside the boys, and as part of a long term plan we hope to bring other teams of girls through from scratch to senior levels over the coming years.
Comets now has an on going partnership with one of Hemel Hempstead's sports colleges. We have sole use of the Longdean School pitches and have worked with the school to improve these. We have already installed small sided pitches for 6-10 year olds, and plan to further develop facilities. In recent years we have partnered The Cavendish School to deliver one of Dacorum's largest junior sporting events, our Summer 6-a-side Tournament. In 2008 we successfully transferred this to Longdean where we entertained around 5,000 people over the course of a weekend in June. Some nine counties provided the 183 teams that took part. Again in 2009, learning from our experiences in 2008, we provided one of our best ever tournaments at Longdean.
We celebrate our success annually by gathering the whole club together for a presentation evening. Three years ago (In 2007) this was held at the Watford Coliseum, where 1,000 people saw our teams receive honours presented by Marc Bircham, then of QPR. In 2008 we relocated the event to Longdean, where the surroundings felt more homely. Again Marc Bircham, now with Yeovil, helped with the presentation along with Ryan Charles of Luton Town and by Martin Bayliss, Chairman of the Berkhamsted Sunday Football League.
