Academy Link

Villa have a development centre to spot young talent.

Coaches at this new centre, housed at Villa Park, work with under-eights, under-nines, under-10s, under-11s and under-12s.

This provides a link with Villa's academy system and the club hopes it can find talented inner-city stars.

Sporting Khalsa

Villa have set up formal links with Sporting Khalsa - the largest Asian football club in the country.

Our partnership with the Walsall club will see us offer coaching expertise to aid their set-up and in return they will recommend talented players for our development centre.

We are working with Sporting Khalsa as they are extremely well organised and expertly managed club.

Sporting Khalsa have received confirmation from the FA that their application to become a Charter Standard Development Club has been successful.

The club had already been granted Charter Standard in 2005 by the FA as well as Sports Club Standard by Walsall MBC in 2006.