A Rugby Town Reserve team will return to action this season and feature in the Athium Midland Combination Reserve League Division One.

The reserve team will be ran through the new Strachan Football Foundation scheme who will be based at Butlin Road with their apprenticeship scheme from September 2011.

Games will be played at Butlin Road and Rugby Town Reserves will come up against the likes of Barwell, Chasetown, Coalville, Gresley, Quorn, Banbury and Stratford's reserve teams.

The Rugby Town Reserves got their first action on Saturday when they faced the first team in a friendly on the astroturf.

Promising youngsters from the youth team, SFF apprentices, fringe first team players and trialists will have the chance of playing for the reserves with the hope of progressing into the first team.

In the past, the reserve team has provided valuable experience for players coming through the youth team and for trialists alike to prove their worth and players such as Justin Marsden, Jon Douglas, Rory Squire and Akin Aladetoun all featured for the reserves before moving onto first team action with Valley.