Everton U-17's won the FA Premier Youth Academy League (North Section) and got to the Final of the national playoffs
Manager: Gary Ablett
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FA PREMIER YOUTH ACADEMY U-17 LEAGUE
FIXTURES AND RESULTS, 2003-04
Date Ven Opponents Result Pos Scorers Link to Official Site
August 2003
Sat 23 (h) Aston Villa W 3-1 2nd Boyle, Harris, Hopkins Sat 30 (a) Wimbledon W 2-1 1st Johnson, Hughes
September
Sat 6 (h) Sheffield United W 2-0 1st Johnson, Fowler Sat 13 (a) Leeds United W 3-0 1st Harris 2, Fowler Tue 16 (a) Derby County W 3-1 1st Johnson, Fowler, Hopkins Sat 27 (h) Middlesbrough W 3-2 1st Wilson, Fowler, Seargeant
October
Sat 4 (h) Wolverhampton Wndrs L 0-1 1st — Sat 11 (h) Nottingham Forest W 2-1 1st Hughes, Wright Sat 18 (a) Leeds United W 1-0 1st Vaughan Sat 25 (a) Sheffield United W 3-1 1st Boyle 2, Johnson
November
Sat 1 (a) Middlesbrough D 2-2 2nd Harris, Seargeant Sat 8 (a) Blackburn Rovers L 0-4 3rd — Sat 15 (a) Liverpool D 0-0 3rd — Sat 22 (a) Manchester United W 4-1 2nd Hughes, Seargeant 2, Hopkins
December 2003
Sat 6 (a) Manchester City W 5-0 2nd Wynne, Hopkins 2, Boyle, Vaughan Sat 13 (h) Crewe Alexandra D 2-2 2nd Phelan, Hughes
January 2004
Sat 10 (h) Liverpool W 4-1 1st Hopkins, Harris, Wilson, Fowler Sat 17 (h) Manchester United L 0-1 2nd — Sat 24 (h) Manchester City W 1-0 1st Harris
February
Sat 14 (h) Blackburn Rovers L 0-1 2nd — Sat 21 (h) Liverpool W 1-0 1st Boyle Sat 28 (a) Manchester United D 1-1 2nd Hopkins
March
Sat 6 (h) Wolverhampton Wandrs W 4-1 1st Hopkins 2, Seargeant, Wright Sat 13 (a) Nottingham Forest W 2-1 1st Hopkins, Fowler Sat 20 (h) Derby County D 1-1 1st Hopkins Mon 22 (h) Crewe Alexandra W 3-0 1st Seargeant, Fowler, Hopkins
April 2004 — Playoffs
Sat 3 (h) Leicester City W 2-0 POQF Hopkins, Anichebe Sat 17 (a) Tottenham Hotspur D 1-1 POSF Vaughan (aet: 6-5 on penalties)
May 2004 — Playoffs
Mon 4 (a) Aston Villa L 1-5 POF1 Hopkins Wed 12 (h) Aston Villa D 1-1 POF2 Anichebe Everton lose the National Final 2-6 on aggregate
Friendlies and Other U-17 Team Matches
Day Date Ven Opponents KO/Res Scorers Sat 12 Jul H Wigan 0-0 — Sat 19 Jul A Winsford United Res 5-0 Fowler 2, Hopkins, Harris, Boyle Sat 26 Jul H Parramatta Eagles 1-0 Hopkins Sat 2 Aug H Marine Reserves 5-2 Tue 12 Aug H York College, PA 7-0 Sat 16 Aug H Manchester City 2-0
FA PREMIER YOUTH ACADEMY LEAGUE
The FA Premier Youth Academy Under-17s League set-up has four regional groups of 10 teams each:
Group A (NW) Group B (NE) Group C (SE) Group D (SW) Blackburn Rvrs Derby County Aston Villa Bristol City Bolton Wndrs Huddersfield Arsenal Chelsea Crewe Alexandra Leeds United Birmingham C Crystal Pal Everton Leicester C Charlton Ath Fulham Liverpool Middlesbrough Coventry City QPR Manchester Utd Newcastle Utd Ipswich Town Reading Manchester City Notts Forest Millwall Southampton Stoke City Sheffield Wed Norwich Tottenham H Wolverhampton W Sunderland Peterborough West Ham Utd Wrexham Sheffield Utd Watford Wimbledon
The season started with some inter-group matches against teams from the farthest (geographically) regional groups. For Everton, that meant a game with a team each from Groups C and D. Everton then played three teams from the closest Group A.
For the main part of the season, Everton played each of the other teams in the local Group A, both home and away. They finished up playing each of the other teams in Group A again, giving 28 matches in all.
FA PREMIER YOUTH ACADEMY LEAGUE U-17 GROUP TABLE, 2003-04
UNDER-17 YOUTH ACADEMY LEAGUE — Match Details
Everton 3 - 1 Aston Villa
Everton: Gallagher; Wynne, Hughes (80' Molyneux), Boyle, Wright; Seargeant, Wilson, Harris, Johnson, Hopkins (88' Phelan), Fowler (65' Vaughan). Subs Not Used: J Jones, Foran. Scorers: Boyle, Harris, Hopkins
Match Reports: EvertonFC.com icLiverpool.com
Everton 2 - 1 Wimbledon
Everton: Gallagher; Wynne, Hughes, Wright, Boyle; Seargeant, Harris, Wilson; Johnson, Hopkins, Fowler (80' Vaughan). Subs not used: N/A. Scorers: Johnson, Hughes.
Everton 2 - 0 Sheffield United
Everton: Gallagher; Wynne, Boyle, Wright, Hughes; Wilson, Seargeant, Harris; Hopkins, Fowler, Johnson. Subs not used: Lake, Vaughan, Phelan, Foran, Irving. Scorers: Johnson, Fowler.
Steve Milne: Under the stewardship of Gary Abblet & Neil Dewsnip the 17's, who had quite a few 16's playing, out Steve Milne: played Sheffield United this morning, a goal in each half did the job:
Leeds United 0 - 3 Everton
Everton: Gallagher; Wynne, Hughes, Wright, Boyle; Seargeant, Harris, Wilson, Johnson (75' Molyneux ); Hopkins (75' Phelan), Fowler (75' Vaughan). Subs not used: N/A. Scorers: Harris 2, Fowler.
Derby County 1 - 3 Everton
Everton: Lake; Wynne, Boyle, Wright, Hughes; Wilson, Seargent, Harris; Hopkins (74' Vaughn), Fowler (74' Phelan), Johnson (81' Molyneux). Subs not used: Vaughan, Foran. Scorers: Johnson, Fowler, Hopkins
Match Highlights from Steve Milne:
Half time: Derby County 0 - 3 Everton
Everton 3 - 2 Middlesbrough
Everton: Lake, Wynne, Boyle, Wright, Hughes, Wilson, Seargeant, Harris, Hopkins, Fowler (74' Phelan), Johnson (82' Kearney). Subs not used: Vaughan, Gallagher, Molyneux. Scorers: Wilson, Fowler, Seargeant.
Another chance to see the kids in action today, good game it was as well.
Wolverhampton Wanderers 1 - 0 Everton
Everton: Gallagher, Wynne, Hughes, Kearney, Wright, Seargeant, Harris, Wilson, Johnson (Molyneux 78), Hopkins, Fowler (78' Anderson). Subs not used: Names. Scorers: None.
Everton 2 - 1 Nottingham Forest
Everton: Gallagher; Wynne, Wright, Kearney, Hughes; Wilson, Sergeant, Harris; Hopkins, Fowler (60' Phelan), Johnson (60' Boyce). Subs not used: Irving, Holt. Scorers: Hughes (66'), Wright (70')
Steve Milne: An evenly matched game this morning, both sides not having that many real chances on goal. We went a goal down on 25\mins when Litchfield put the visitors in front, a cross in from the left, only half cleared, put back in again from the left, this time Litchfield beat the defenders to the ball. Alan Kearney saved the day on the half hour mark, cleared the ball off the line.
Half time: Everton 0 - 1 Nottingham Forest
Gary Abblet made a couple of changes on the hour mark and within a couple a minutes it paid off:
Leeds United 0 - 1 Everton
Everton: McCall; Wynne, Boyle, Kearney, Hughes; Wilson, Seargeant, Harris; Hopkins, Johnson, Morrison. Subs: Fowler, Anichebe, Holt, Vaughan. Scorers: Vaughan (75').
icLiverpool: Everton under-17s made it eight wins from nine matches with a 1-0 victory at Leeds to consolidate their position at the top of the Group A table. Substitute James Vaughan grabbed his first goal of the season 15 minutes from time as Gary Ablett's side completed an early Academy League double of the Yorkshire side. Christian Seargeant fed Vaughan just inside the box and, after turning his marker, he lifted it over the advancing keeper.
Coach Gary Ablett said: "It was a good workmanlike 1-0 win. It could have been better, but I think there was only ever going to be one team who was going to win and that was us. But we could have made it easier for ourselves by scoring a couple more. We were missing our goalkeeper Craig Gallagher, who is a very important player for us. He was out with a bad hamstring and Sean Wright was ill."
Sheffield United 1 - 3 Everton
Everton: Gallagher; Wynne, Hughes, Kearney, Wright; Harris, Seargeant, Boyle; Hopkins, Fowler, Johnson. [Line-up inferred] Subs not used: Names. Scorers: Boyle 2, Johnson.
Middlesbrough 2 - 2 Everton
Everton: Gallagher; Wynne, Hughes, Kearney, Wright; Phelan, Harris, Seargeant, Boyle; Hopkins, Fowler (80' Vaughan). Subs not used: Names. Scorers: Harris, Seargeant.
Blackburn Rovers 4 - 0 Everton
Everton: Gallagher; Wynne, Hughes, Kearney, Boyle; Phelan, Harris, Seargeant, Johnson (80' Hope); Hopkins (70' Anichebe), Fowler (70' Vaughan). Subs not used: N/A. Scorers: None.
Liverpool 0 - 0 Everton
Everton: Gallagher; Wynne, Hughes {c}, Kearney, Wright; Seargeant, Wilson, Harris, Boyle (69' Johnson); Hopkins, Fowler (74' Phelan ). Subs not used: McCall, Molneux, Kelly. Scorers: None.
Manchester United 1 - 4 Everton
Everton: Gallagher; Wynne, Hughes, Kearney, Wright; Seargeant, Wilson, Harris, Boyle; Hopkins, Phelan (80' Vaughan). Subs not used: Fowler, Jamie Jones, Johnson, Irving. Scorers: Hughes (40'), Seargeant (51', 78'), Hopkins (90').
Centre-back Hughes opened the scoring five minutes before half-time for his third goal of the season. United levelled from the penalty spot just before the break. But there was no stopping the young Blues in the second half. Christian Seargeant takes the credit for the second after his free-kick went in off a United defender six minutes after half-time. But there was no dispute about the scorer of the third as Seargeant made it 3-1 on 78 minutes. And 16-year-old Hopkins wrapped things up in the final minute with his third goal this season.
Manchester City 0 - 5 Everton
Everton: Gallagher; Wynne, Hughes, Kearney, Wright; Johnson (80' Irving), Seargeant, Harris, Boyle; Hopkins (75' Fowler), Phelan (75' Vaughan?). Subs not used: Names. Scorers: Wynne, Hopkins 2, Boyle, Vaughan.
EVERTON under-17s moved to within one point of FA Premier Academy League leaders Manchester United with a five-star performance against their neighbours City. It was the perfect tonic after the Blues crashed out of the FA Youth Cup in midweek at Coventry City.
Full-back Stephen Wynne opened the scoring, volleying home from the edge of the box when a corner was cleared straight to him after half-an-hour. And although the Blues were always on top it wasn't until the second half that they made their superiority tell. Striker Paul Hopkins hit two goals in ten minutes to take his tally for the season to five.
Further strikes late on from Boyle, who slid in at the far post and substitute James Vaughan, who smashed home after a good turn made sure the Blues ran out emphatic winners.
Everton 2 - 2 Crewe Alexandra
Everton: Gallagher; Irving, Hughes, Kearney, Wright; Johnson (80' Irving), Seargeant, Harris, Boyle; Hopkins, Phelan (75' Vaughan). Subs not used: Molyneux, Kelly, Morrison. Scorers: Phelan, Hughes.
Everton 4 - 1 Liverpool
Everton: Gallagher; Wynne, Hughes, Kearney, Wright; Johnson (78' Molyneux), Seargeant, Harris, Boyle; Hopkins (78' Phelan), Fowler (78' Vaughan). Subs not used: McCall, Irving. Scorers: Hopkins, Harris, Wilson(!), Fowler.
Everton 0 - 1 Manchester United
Everton: Gallagher; Wynne, Hughes, Kearney, Molyneux; Johnson, Seargeant (75' Irving), Harris, Wilson; Hopkins, Fowler (70' Vaughan). Subs not used: Morrison, Phelan, Jamie Jones. Scorers: None.
Everton 1 - 0 Manchester City
Everton: Gallagher; Wynne, Hughes, Kearney (25' Morrison), Wright; Johnson, Harris, Seargeant, Boyle; Hopkins, Phelan. Subs not used: Fowler, McCall, Irving, Anichebe. Scorers: Harris.
Everton 0 - 1 Blackburn Rovers
Everton: Gallagher; Wynne, Hughes, Kearney, Wright(?); Wilson, Harris (80' Phelan), Seargeant, Boyle; Hopkins, Fowler (60' Vaughan). Subs not used: Jamie Jones, Johnson, Irving. Scorers: None
Sent off: Wynne and Hughes
Everton 1 - 0 Liverpool
Everton: Gallagher; Wynne, Hughes, Kearney, Wright; Wilson, Harris, Seargeant, Boyle; Hopkins (79' Anichebe), Fowler (79' Vaughan). Subs not used: Molynuex, Johnson, Irving. Scorers: Boyle.
Manchester United 1 - 1 Everton
Everton: Gallagher; Irving, Kearney, Wright, Boyle; Wilson, Harris, Seargeant, Johnson; Hopkins (80' Phelan), Fowler (80' Vaughan). Subs not used: Morrison, Pearson, Anichebe. Scorers: Hopkins.
Everton 4 - 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Everton: Gallagher; Irving (75' Molyneux), Hughes, Wright, Boyle; Wilson, Harris, Seargeant, Phelan; Hopkins (80' Anichebe), Fowler (80' Vaughan). Subs not used: Jamie Jones, Kelly. Scorers: Hopkins 2, Seargeant, Wright.
Nottingham Forest 1 - 2 Everton
Everton: Gallagher; Irving, Hughes, Wright, Boyle; Wilson, Harris, Seargeant, Phelan; Hopkins (70' Anichebe), Fowler (70' Vaughan). Subs not used: Molynuex, Johnson, Lake. Scorers: Hopkins, Fowler.
Everton 1 - 1 Derby County
Everton: Gallagher; Irving, Hughes, Wright, Boyle; Seargeant, Wilson, Harris, Phelan; Hopkins (80' Anichebe), Fowler (80' Vaughan). Subs not used: Molynuex, Pearson, Kearney. Scorers: Hopkins.
Everton 3 - 0 Crewe Alexandra
Everton: Lake; Wynne, Hughes, Boyle, Wright; Wilson, Seargeant (85' Kearney), Harris; Hopkins, Fowler (78' Vaughan), Phelan. Subs not used: Anichebe, Pearson, Irving. Scorers: Seargeant (48'), Fowler (72'), Hopkins (84').
Steve Milne: With just one game left of the normal season, a victory tonight would make us league winners. In a poor first half, neither side could carve any chances ; I think it was down to nerves as a lot was riding on the game.
Right from the restart we looked the better side, and within a couple of minutes we scored.
We are the Champions.............. of Group A! Next: the playoffs!!!
Everton 2 - 0 Leicester City
Everton: Lake; Wynne, Hughes, Wright, Boyle?; Wilson, Harris, Seargeant (Vaughan 80), Phelan; Hopkins (Anichebe 85), Fowler. Subs not used: Kearney, Molynuex, Irving. Scorers: Hopkins (84'), Anichebe (90').
Tottenham Hotspur 1 - 1 Everton (aet; Everton win 5 - 6 on penalties)
Everton: Lake; Wynne, Hughes, Wright, Boyle; Wilson, Harris (115' Kissock), Seargeant, Phelan; Hopkins (95' Anichebe), Fowler (95' Vaughan). Subs not used: Molynuex, Irving. Scorers: Vaughan (120'). Everton Penalties: Hughes (missed: 1-0); Wright (2-1); Boyle (3-2); Lake (4-3): Seargeant (4-4); Wynne (5-5); Wilson (5-6)
Match Reports: EvertonFC.com icLiverpool.com Spurs Odessey
Aston Villa 5 - 1 Everton
Everton: Lake; Wynne, Boyle, Wright, Hughes; Wilson, Seargeant, Harris, Phelan (76' Anichebe); Hopkins, Fowler (76' Vaughan). Subs not used: Irving, Kissock, Morrison. Scorers: Hopkins (72'). Att: 293
Everton's youngsters crumbled in the key first leg, with a poor defence allowing five goals that would make the second leg a formality.
Everton 1 - 1Aston Villa
Everton: Lake; Wynne, Boyle, Wright, Hughes; Wilson, Seargeant (80' Kissock), Phelan, Vaughan; Hopkins, Anichebe. Subs not used: Fowler, Irving, Molyneux, Morrison. Scorers: Anichebe (10'). Att: 1,323
The Everton players did a lot better than in the first leg in front of a pretty good crowd, but the goal differential proved insurmmountable.
YOUTH ACADEMY U-17s – APPEARANCES, 2003-04
Thanks to the Liverpool Echo & Daily Post for publishing regular team line-ups for Everton's Under-17s.
U-17s FRIENDLIES, 2003-04
Everton 0 - 0 Wigan
Everton: Team Subs not used: N/A. Scorers: None
Winsford United Res 0 - 5 Everton
Everton: ... Fowler, Hopkins, Harris, Boyle ... Subs not used: N/A. Scorers: Fowler 2, Hopkins, Harris, Boyle
Everton 1 - 0 Parramatta Eagles
Everton: ... Lynch, Hopkins, Hughes, Kearney, Harris ... Subs not used: N/A. Scorers: Hopkins (pen) Match Reports: Everton FC Website
Everton 5 - 2 Marine Reserves
Everton: Team. Subs not used: Names. Scorers: Scorers.
Everton 7 - 0 York College, Penslyvannia
Everton: N/A. Subs not used: N/A. Scorers: ???. Match Comments: Everton FC Website
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