Unlike last season when the team formed just 20 days before the start of the season, the current crop of u18s have enjoyed a full pre-season schedule in which they have fulfilled fixtures against youth team sides & men’s teams alike. Results are always immaterial at this stage of the season, but having kept two clean sheets at home and given good accounts of themselves against adult teams Barcombe and Newhaven Reserves, preparations have gone very well. With the help of new fitness coach Lee Ransom the team are ready for their first game of the season away to Eastbourne Town.

Pre-Season ended with Newhaven White winning the Thomas Turner Trophy, with Littlehampton second and Newhaven Red third.