Manchester City Women are seeking warm and welcoming host families to provide safe and supportive environment for our girls academy players (aged between 16 – 18 years old).

As a host parent, you’ll be a vital part of our players’ development, supporting them both on and off pitch. You’ll offer a welcoming home environment, nutritious meals, emotional encouragement, and guidance as they adapt to living away from home while balancing their training and education.

Accommodation requirements vary from full-time to part-time basis across the football season. A willingness to provide short-term ad hoc accommodation throughout the season is also desirable.

Your Impact

1. Provide a homely, safe and welcoming environment to our young players.
2. We welcome applications from families who can provide a room for a single player or, ideally, two players.
3. Provide high quality accommodation for our young players, including a spacious single or double bedroom, sufficient storage for clothes, a desk, WiFi, suitable access to a bathroom and laundry facilities.
4. Provide high-quality, nutritious meals in line with guidance from the Academy (generally evening meals on training days and breakfast, lunch, evening meal and snacks on rest days).
5. Be a non-smoking household.
6. Safeguard the physical and emotional welfare of players, creating a secure, family environment that offers respite from formal development programmes.
7. Help the young player develop essential life skills by guiding them in tasks like doing laundry, preparing meals, and maintaining a clean-living space.
8. Accommodation has access to public and local amenities with good transport links to City Football Academy (M11 4TQ).
9. Include our young people in family life as much as they feel comfortable with.
10. The club will provide further guidance and training to host families, young people and their parents explaining what would be expected of them.
11. Undergo a comprehensive application and screening process, as laid out in our Safer Recruitment policy. This will include DBS checks (anyone living in the home aged 16 years or older), home visits and references.
12. Communicate with the Performance Lifestyle and Safeguarding Teams at Manchester City Football Club and the family of the young player.
13. Adhere to any further and ongoing requirements of Host Families, as outlined in the application process, including home visits from our Performance Lifestyle and Safeguarding Teams.