Welcome to Optimal Football

Optimal Football is a football group tackling mental health challenges as well as tackling goals through the power of football.

Playing or watching Optimal football can have significant benefits for your mental health, it offers both physical activity and social interaction that contribute to overall well-being.

Benefits of playing:

• Helps reduce stress, anxiety, and depression by boosting serotonin and dopamine levels. Boosts confidence and self- esteem, setting personal or team goals. Stress can be reduced by channeling energy into a competitive game to release pent up frustration.

• Helps with mindfulness, helps concentration levels, decision making keeping the mind engaged.

• Builds social connections, camaraderie, and teamwork , reduces feelings of loneliness and isolation.

• Help physical activity, keeping healthy and the heart pumping.

If playing is not for you, come along and watch.

• Supporting the team engages you with social connections. Cheering victories or even expressing frustrations can provide an emotional outlet.

• It can help with cognitive stimulation, you can identify strategies and decision making and help the players.
  

We look forward to seeing you!

*Optimal Football is seasonal, so please get in touch for more details*