Kettering Town Walking Football Club.
Back in July 2023 I joined Kettering Town with a view to setting up a Men’s Walking Football Team, from scratch. I had already managed to do this at Bedworth United, so I didn’t see any problem with doing the same here.
After a few posts on social media, we started attracting new players and held our training sessions at Latimer Park on Thursdays. The word spread and slowly, but surely we gained more players. The Club mainly focuses on fun, exercise and social interaction.
During late 2023 and early 2024, we arranged a few friendly games, our results were mixed, but I could see the potential to create something special. Not just in terms of the football, but in the strong relationships that were being forged.
In the February of 2024 we decided to enter the Northamptonshire Walking Football League. Our games were played over three months, with four or five – 15 minute matches being played on a Sunday morning. Again our results were mixed and although we finished bottom of the league, our performances were very good and really encouraging. We drew several games and the games we lost were only by one goal.
We continued to train throughout the summer, improving our game play and becoming much stronger. In the August we entered the Walking Football FA Cup and finished up as beaten finalists in the Northamptonshire regional finals. Our performances were much improved.
In September we played once again in the Northamptonshire Walking Football league, our results were much better and the players had really become a very close and cohesive unit. This time around we finished third in the league, narrowly missing out on second place.
We now have a squad of 26 players, we still train on a Thursday evening and we continue to improve. We are still a very close unit, playing our football for each other and encouraging each other. We’ve become more than a team of walking footballers, we are a team of friends.
This February 2025, we are entering two teams into the league and I am confident that both teams will do great. We still welcome new players, so if you fancy coming along to try Walking Football, then please get in touch.

Clark Cowell 

clarkmcowell@ktfccommunitytrust.com