Football in Islington

Find on this page:

• Parks with football pitches for hire
• Parks with football pitches that are free to use
• Leisure centres and schools with football pitches for hire
• Organisations in Islington that offer football
• The national governing body for football

The map shows where football and all sport and physical activity is on offer in Islington. 

Parks with football pitches for hire. Some pitches have times when no booking is required

• Barnard Park
• Highbury Fields
• Paradise Park
• Rosemary Gardens
• Tufnell Park Playing Fields
• Whittington Park

Parks with football pitches that are free to use:

• Archway Park
• Arundel Square
• Asteys Row
• Biddestone Park
• Caledonian Park, near Caledonian Road tube station, N7
• Chambers Road Park
• Dartmouth Park
• Edward Square
• Elthorne Park, Archway, N19
• Girdlestone Park
• Graham Street Park
• Granville Square
• Hillside Park
• Joseph Grimaldi Park
• Laycock Green
• Mitchison Baxter Park
• Quaker Gardens
• Radnor Street Gardens
• Royal Northern Gardens
• St Pauls Shrubbery
• Spa Fields, near Rosebery Avenue, EC1
• Woodfall Park
• Wray Crescent, near Hornsey Road, N4

Leisure centres and schools with football pitches for hire:

• Finsbury Leisure Centre, Norman St, EC1V 3PU
• Market Road football pitches, next to Islington Tennis Centre, Market Rd, N7 9PL
• Sobell leisure centre, Tollington Road, N7 7NY
• William Tyndale school, Upper St, N1 2GG

Organisations in Islington that offer football:

• Access to Sports for young people and for girls
• All Nations Football League, Arts & Media School Islington, Turle Road, N4 3LS
• Arsenal in the Community offers football to girls and young people, and walking football to women, people aged 40+, and men with prostate cancer. For more information, see the leaflets to the right. Arsenal in the Community also offers these sessions:
• football for girls aged 6-9 at Arsenal Hub, N7 7BA
• football for girls aged 10-13 at Tufnell Park primary school, N7 0HJ, and St John's Highbury Vale primary school, N5 1DL
• football for young people aged 6-9 at Arsenal Hub, N7 7BA.
• for more information contact James Warnock, jwarnock@arsenal.co.uk
• Bloomsbury Football, Market Road Football Pitches, N7 9PL, for young people 
• Camden & Islington Youth Football League, Market Road Football Pitches, N7 9PL, for young people and for girls
• CitySport, The Franklin Building, 124 Goswell Rd, EC1V 7DP, offers futsal
• Copenhagen Youth Project, Handyside, 3 Canal Reach, N1C 4BA; Copenhagen school, Treaty St, N1 0WF, for young people
• GLL, Sobell leisure centre, Tollington Road, N7 7NY offers walking football for people aged 50+ 
• Go Mammoth, Hugh Myddelton school, Myddelton St, EC1R 1YJ; Canonbury school, 124 Canonbury Rd, N1 2UT; Copenhagen school, Treaty St, N1 0WF
• Highbury Football School, Barnard Park, N1 0ER, and Market Road Football Pitches, N7 9PL, for young people
• Isledon, Whittington Park, N19 4EG, for young men
• Isledon Wolves, Market Road Football Pitches, N7 9PL, and Whittington Park, N19 4EG, for young people
• Islington Borough Ladies Football Club, Whittington Park, N19 4EG, for women and girls, and Sobell leisure centre, N7 7NY, and Barnard Park, N1 0ER, for women
• Islington Football Development Partnership, Whittington Park, N19 4EG, for young people
• Little Kickers, Mary's Community Centre, Upper St, N1 2TX; Walter Sickert community centre, Canonbury Crescent, N1 2FB, for young people
• Little Strikers, Mildmay Community Centre, Woodville Road, N16 8NA, for young people
• London Football School, Tufnell Park Playing Fields, Campdale Rd, N7 0EB; City of London Academy Islington, Prebend St, N1 8PQ (futsal); Market Road Football Pitches, N7 9PL, for young people
• North London United, Arsenal Hub, 56 Benwell Rd, N7 7BA, for people with a disability and young people with Down's Syndrome
• Play Football. Market Road Football Pitches, N7 9PL; William Tyndale school, Upper St, N1 2GG; Paradise Park, MacKenzie Road, N7 8SE; Rosemary Gardens, N1 3DU; Finsbury Leisure Centre, EC1V 3PU
• Powerplay. Whittington Park, N19 4EG; Central Foundation Boys School, Cowper St, EC2A 4SH; Market Road football pitches, N7 9PL including for women; Finsbury Leisure Centre, EC1V 9PU.
• Pro Touch SA, Market Road Football Pitches, N7 9PL; Whittington Park, N19 4EG for young people
• Rose Bowl Youth Hub, St Paul's Park, Ramsey Walk, N1 2PT for young people
• The Elfrida Society, Highbury Fields, N5 1AR, for people with a learning disability
• Walking football with GLL, Sobell leisure centre, Tollington Road, N7 7NY
• Walking football in Wray Crescent, N4 3LP
• Wrayvens FC, Wray Crescent, N4 3LP, for women

The English Football Association is the national governing body for football.

Sport and physical activity has full information about all the sport and physical activity on offer in Islington.

If you have a question about the content on this page, contact John Thorne: john.thorne@islington.gov.uk; 020 7527 7096.