8 clubs and groups you can join, with training nights, fees and the beginner route into each.
Started as Bexley Invicta on 15 January 2011 and affiliated to Charlton Athletic Community Trust on 24 August 2017, the first LGBTQI+ friendly team attached to a professional club's trust. Four sides across the London Unity League and the GFSN, and Tuesday night training at the Charlton training ground in New Eltham.
South · Tue · Beginners
East London's mixed grassroots club, entered in London Unity League Division 1 and in both GFSN Division Two and the Development League for 2026/27. The club's website was unreachable when checked, so no session times or founding year are shown; the Linktree carries the email and Instagram.
East
The mixed-ability club, winners of the 2026 Football v Homophobia Grassroots Award, with three sessions a week: Sunday afternoons in Camden with 5-a-side and walking football and the pub after, Wednesdays at Shepherd's Bush and Fridays at the Sobell Centre. The first meet was at the Black Cap in November 1999 and the club co-founded the GFSN league in 2002.
North · Sun, Wed, Fri · Beginners
The newest club in London, formed by a group of friends in 2023 and already in GFSN Division One and London Unity League Division 2. Training is Tuesday evenings from September to June at Ark Burlington Danes Academy on Wood Lane, and the site says to come along to a session.
West · Tue · Beginners
Formed in 2005 and the club with the most teams in London: six, across the London Unity League, the GFSN, the Southern Sunday Football League and a development side. Training is Monday evenings on a 3G pitch in south west London.
South · Mon · Beginners
Formed as the London Romans in 2006 in north London, then taken in by Millwall Community Trust and moved south of the river. Three entries this season: Millwall Romans and Millwall Pride in London Unity League Division 1, Millwall Romans Pride in GFSN Division Two. No training night is published, so email and ask.
South
Formed in October 2013, with three entries for 2026/27: Soho FC in London Unity League Division 1, Soho Tigers in Division 2, and Soho FC in GFSN Division Two. The club's site publishes no training schedule, so ask through the contact form or on Instagram before travelling.
Established in February 1991 and the club for proper 11-a-side: four competitive men's sides and two women and non-binary sides, the men's first XI in the Middlesex County Premier Division, which the club says is the highest level any openly LGBT+ club currently plays at in England. Three training nights split by level, first session free and £8 after.
East · Mon, Wed, Thu · Free · Beginners
New clubs, changed training nights, and the occasional weekend. No more than that.
A weekend away with a group of gay men, and nothing to prove.