About Us

Club and Class of 2012 History

The club was formed in 1993 at the time of the first Asian Football League.  A group of friends at Newham's East Ham College merged with a youth Team, who were no longer eligible to play under 16's football. Brought together by the Current Club Chairman Zulfi Ali, London APSA then known as Ahle Sunnah were crowned the first ever-Asian League Champions.

The team continued for a number of years with some success, playing in various Asian run competitions. It wasn't until April 1999 that the club became really serious about making a mark in mainstream football. The trigger was a trip to Pakistan via a group called APSA based in Manchester. This trip brought together the Chairman and Vice Chairman Zulfi Ali and Anjum Khan. With plenty of spare time the two spent much time discussing plans of how to move forward and how to bring about the birth of an Asian Team which will compete in the mainstream and be the standard bearer for the Asian Football Community.

London APSA Class Of 2012 posing after winning a tournament

In early winter 2012 Hafiz Ahmed a junior football coach from Newham who was working in Tower Hamlets contacted Zulfi Ali to manage a team for London APSA, Still only 15 Hafiz got a group of Year 4/5 players together to create a team. This team included the likes of the current team still playing today with; Kamran Uddin, Mahdi Ali, Faez Kashem, Jaami Barry, Keiron Bramble and Akram Miah amongst others. With limited funds and resources available the team went on to win their U10s league along with other tournaments in the east end. The team soon expanded bigger and attracted many players in the borough, Regular training sessions were taking place twice a week in Whitechapel and Stepney Green. As things were going to plan quickly, Hafiz after completing his FA Level 1 at 16 then had 1 plan and philosophy to keep this current group of players together for 6-7 years, develop their football and one day manage the London APSA first team with the same group of players.

APSA Boys lifting the LIC FC Trophy 

2014/2015 saw a successful season for the boys as now being together for 3 years they were ready to take the challenge of stepping outside of the borough to play football away from ‘Asian’ leagues and tournaments by joining the newly formed Hackney Marshes Saturday Youth League. The boys missed out on the title by 1 point, a league which they could have won had they not forfeited a fixture for a cup final. Despite missing out on the league, the team went on to win 12 tournaments that season all of which were outside of Tower Hamlets, winning various 5 and 7 a side tournaments in Newham, Redbridge, Hackney, Waltham Forest and Havering, while the team were dominating football in East London, Kamran Uddin the top scorer that year had a trial for Crystal Palace. The highlight of that season was winning the LIC FC Tournament at the Valley, home of Charlton Athletic FC, in front of a crowd of 500 spectators the boys went onto win the trophy.