Steve Beeks

In September '88, as a 17-year-old Beeks was signed by then English Football League 3rd Division (now EFL League One) side Aldershot, where he did a one-year apprenticeship; he was Youth Team player of the year and was given a professional contract. Beeks had an illness which kept him out of football for a long period of time but was able to recover to make his Football League debut (a home defeat by Hereford United) on 1 May 1989. At the end of season 88/89 Beeks signed another one-year contract: he only made two more Football League appearances but was a regular in the 1st team squad. A highlight of the season was scoring twice against Arsenal in a reserve team fixture, and being involved in Aldershot's FA Cup run which ended in a defeat by West Ham United in a 3rd Round replay, before his release in May '91. Beeks next signed for Isthmian Premier Sutton United, where he played the first half of season 1991/2, scoring on his debut in a 1–0 win over Martin O'Neill's Wycombe Wanderers F.C. His 20-odd appearances, including one against Staines Town, prompted Neil Price into signing him. Beeks would remain at Staines until Dec '96, amassing 299 First Team appearances and scoring 80 goals, including netting 31 penalties for the Swans. He helped the Club win a Middlesex Senior and Charity Cup 'double' in '94 scoring in both finals, and the '95 Isthmian Full Members' (Carlsberg) Cup. During 1993/4, he was top scorer with 27 goals, and played in 71 of the club's 72 1st team games;…

Steve Beeks Soccer School

Ever since his early days at Aldershot, Beeks had been interested in coaching and passed his Preliminary coaching badge with Dale Banton. Upon his release, he coached children as a career, firstly working with Colin Smith then working successfully with numerous local schools and clubs, achieving unprecedented success with the tiny Our Lady of the Rosary School (Staines). In 1994, he took a Staines Town under-10+1⁄2 team to Åland, a tour he continued to make annually, winning the Alandia Cup – which at that time was Europe's largest single age-group competition – in '95 and '96 as Staines Town, and six more times as Steve Beeks Soccer School (England) - SBSS. Remarkably, they were semi-finalists 15 out of 20 years, in a tournament which typically includes around 90 teams. His sides have also performed well in the Arsenal Invitational Tournament, and at events in Denmark. He was also co-founder of Colne Valley Girls FC.

Cove FC

Beeks' senior coaching career started in June 1999 when he was appointed Player-Manager of Cove, taking this perennially under-achieving club to a Combined Counties Football League and League Cup double, and the last 16 of the FA Vase. Another highlight of his two seasons there was knocking Bognor Regis Town out of the FA Cup, followed by a narrow loss in a replay to Lewes.

Fleet Town FC

Beeks left Cove in Sept '01, and a couple of months later accepted a similar post at Fleet Town, who had made a…

Stephen John Beeks, was born in Ashford, Surrey, England on 10 April 1971. Beeks was at Chelsea for a short period before he signed for Egham Town F.C.'s Youth team at 15 and made his senior debut just a year later. Beeks scored on his debut in a 2–0 win v local rivals Chertsey Town. He made a significant number of appearances in their Isthmian, Suburban and Allied Counties Leagues sides during the '87/8 campaign and received their Billy King Most Improved Player trophy.