2010–11 Premier Academy League

The 2010–11 Premier Academy League Under–18 season is the fourteenth edition since the establishment of The Premier Academy League, and the seventh under the current make-up.

2010–11 Premier Academy League

Champions	Everton U18s
← 2009–10 2011–12 →

All teams played the other teams in their group twice and play 10 inter-group fixtures, producing 28 games a season. Eight of the inter-group games were played against teams in their 'paired group' (i.e. A–B and C–D are the paired groups), whilst the remaining two games comprise one game against a team in each of the two remaining groups. Winners of each group qualify for play-offs.^[1]

League tables

Academy Group A

Updated as of 16 April 2011

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Fulham U18s	28	15	6	7	55	35	+20	51
2	Southampton U18s	28	15	5	8	63	46	+17	50
3	West Ham United U18s	28	15	1	12	54	43	+11	46
4	Norwich City U18s	28	12	5	11	49	49	0	41
5	Arsenal U18s	28	12	3	13	41	45	-4	39
6	Crystal Palace U18s	28	12	3	13	45	51	-6	39
7	Ipswich Town U18s	28	9	7	12	40	50	-10	34
8	Charlton Athletic U18s	28	9	5	14	38	45	-7	32
9	Chelsea U18s	28	9	5	14	42	53	-3	32
10	Portsmouth U18s	28	4	5	19	32	63	-31	17

Academy Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Aston Villa U18	28	18	6	4			+39	60
2	Leicester City U18s	28	17	5	6			+28	56
3	Watford U18s	28	16	5	7			+14	53
4	Tottenham Hotspur U18s	28	13	6	9			+4	45
5	Reading U18s	28	14	2	12			+10	44
6	Birmingham City U18	27	11	5	11			-4	38
8	Bristol City U18s	28	10	3	15			-15	33
8	Coventry City U18s	28	6	12	10			-4	30
9	Cardiff City U18s	28	7	6	15			-19	27
10	Milton Keynes Dons U18s	27	2	4	21			-49	10

Academy Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Everton U18s	28	17	7	4			+25	58
2	Liverpool U18s	28	17	6	5			+37	57
3	Bolton Wanderers U18s	26	16	4	8			+7	46
4	Manchester City U18s	24	12	9	3			+8	45
5	Manchester United U18s	25	11	5	9			+8	38
6	Wolverhampton Wanderers U18s	24	11	4	9			+10	37
7	West Bromwich Albion U18s	25	10	7	8			+4	37
8	Crewe Alexandra U18s	26	11	2	13			-4	35
9	Blackburn Rovers U18s	26	9	5	12			+0	32
10	Stoke City U18s	27	5	3	19			-30	18

Academy Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1 C	Sunderland U18s	28	16	7	5	52	31	+21	55
2	Nottingham Forest U18s	28	16	3	9	54	35	+19	51
3	Barnsley U18s	28	12	5	11	53	46	+7	41
4	Newcastle United U18s	28	11	7	10	57	52	+5	40
5	Sheffield United U18s	28	11	6	11	42	45	-3	39
6	Middlesbrough U18s	28	11	4	13	47	54	-7	37
7	Leeds United U18s	28	10	4	14	30	51	-21	34
8	Huddersfield Town U18s	28	7	5	16	34	57	-23	26
9	Derby County U18s	28	7	3	18	53	59	-6	24
10	Sheffield Wednesday U18s	28	6	6	16	31	64	-33	24

Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored
Pos = Position; Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points
Q = Qualified for playoffs; C = Champions

Play-off semi-finals

Everton U18s	3–2	Aston Villa U18
Tom Donegan 29', 35' Conor McAleny 85'		Graham Burke 23' MichaeI Drennan 70'

9 May 2011

12:00pm

Finch Farm, Halewood

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Fulham U18s	3–3 (a.e.t.)	Sunderland U18s
Alex Smith 52' Marcello Trotta 70' Kerim Frei 93'		Craig Lynch 9' Jordan Laidler 73' Alejandro Gorrin 96'
Penalties
	4–1

10 May 2011

Motspur Park, New Malden

Play-off Final

Fulham Under 18s	1–2	Everton Under 18s
Ronny Minkwitz 75'		Adam Thomas 81' George Waring 89'

13 May 2011

Craven Cottage, London

FULHAM U18s: 1 Jesse Joronen 2 Christian Marquez-Sanchez 3 Alex Smith 4 Josh Pritchard 5 Cheick Toure (c) 6 Stephen Arthurworrey 7 Alex Brister 8 Ronny Minkwitz 9 Marcello Trotta 10 Kerim Frei 11 Courtney Harris Substitutes: 12 Richard Peniket 13 Grant Smith 14 Charles Banya 15 Josh Passley 16 Corey Gameiro Coach: Kit Symons

EVERTON U18s: 1 Adam Davies 2 Tyias Browning 3 Luke Garbutt 4 Jake Bidwell (c) 5 Eric Dier 6 Jordan Barrow  76' 7 Conor McAleny 8 Tom Donegan 9 Ged Kinsella 10 Anton Forrester 11 Adam Thomas Substitutes: 12 George Waring  76' 13 Connor Roberts 14 Ryan Higgins 15 Tom Molyneux 16 Daniel O'Brien Coach: Neil Dewsnip

See also

• 2010–11 Premier Reserve League
• 2010–11 FA Youth Cup
• 2010–11 Premier League
• 2010–11 in English football