AFC Youth Academy Awards Ceremony 2016-17

On Thursday evening Aberdeen FC Youth Academy held their annual Statoil UK End of Season Awards ceremony. 92 signed players accompanied by their parents and friends were present at the event which was also attended by AFC Manager Derek McInnes who presented the awards.

The ceremony recognised the hard work done by all the coaches, staff and parents during what has been another very successful season for the Academy.

The John Delday Awards

The John Delday Outstanding Achievement awards are to be presented to an individual player in each of our Youth Academy teams who have shown exceptional standards with specific emphasis on Creativity and Technique.  These awards are now in their ninth year and the shields are engraved with previous winners, many who are professional full time players with the club.  

John Delday Winners

U10 – Lancelot Pollard

U11 – Arran Smith

U12 – Ethan Duncalf

U13 – Nimi Faleye

U14 – Lyall Booth

U15 – Max Barry

U17 – Jack MacKenzie

Statoil Young Talent of the Season
Finlay Murray

Statoil Talent of the Season
Dean Campbell

The prestigious Statoil Talent of the Year Award is presented to an individual from the U13's – U17's age groups and is chosen by a panel of judges. Dean was chosen as the outright winner for the third year in a row.
The youngster has come through the Youth Academy pathway from eight years of age and will continue to develop in AFC's U20 squad next season.

This season he has been top of this season's match ratings above any other Academy player, whilst being part of an U17 side who could still win their league with two games to go. Dean was part of the first team squad who beat Dundee 7-0 at Dens and is also in the squad for the game against Celtic on Friday.