The foundation for Cookstown Youth Football Club (CYFC) formally Cookstown Boys Football Club was laid in 1991 when local men, Nigel Talbot and Johnny McAllister decided to make a contribution to the local community by forming a youth football club.
Their aim was to ensure that the club would be representative of the town and give young people from different religious and social backgrounds a purpose in coming together.
They believed that through the formation of this club, football would be the medium that would help to make this happen.