Hundreds of children attended once or twice a week to train in football, basketball, athletics, and gymnastics.
Slowly, the early eighties gave birth to the football nursery practically in every town in Malta.
was officially established in 1982, comprising the first eight nurseries and clubs, progressing rapidly to the present day.
Nearly every nursery participates in Under 10 & 12 Festivals as well as in U/14 & U/16 Competitions (Under 19 teams do not form part of the Youth F.A.
and all the nurseries do not refer directly to education in their names, the spirit of the aims remains those of forming the characters of children and youths through the game of football.