Our Journey

Active Sports FC started in 2020 with almost nothing — a brand-new club at the very bottom of the grassroots pyramid, and a belief that football could do more than fill a Saturday.

Founder Joshua Khan had played the game from a young age before moving into coaching. Studying sport business and coaching, he saw how few people from ethnic-minority backgrounds reached the top levels of the game, and set out to build his own way in. Active Sports FC was the result: an inclusive South London club, built from the ground up, with experienced people around it.

What followed was a steady, season-on-season climb — five promotions in six seasons, rising from the foot of the grassroots leagues towards the edge of semi-professional football. In 2025/26 the club went one better: champions, six points clear, and winners of its first-ever League Cup.

But the climb was never only about results. Through its “Active to Pro” pathway, the club has helped players move into the professional game. It has stood by players through injuries and personal challenges, taken young people to tournaments and trials, and brought in a physio and mental-health training to look after the squad as people, not just players.

In 2026 that story reached a wider audience. “All In The Game” — a documentary feature made by Emmy- and BAFTA-winning production company North One with Lillebus Productions — follows the club on and off the pitch, with all of Lillebus’s proceeds going to anti-knife-crime causes that matter to the community.

Six seasons on, Active Sports FC is still the same idea it began as: a place where young people in South London belong, grow and get a real chance. Active. Always.