Category: Intra-School Football

The Inaugural ESFA Hotshots campaign has come to a close with over 31,000 pupils taking part in intra-school football activity, across the country. The prizes have been drawn and the winners are announced below! This season, the ESFA is giving away over £29,000 in cash to the winning schools.

ESFA Hotshots

ESFA Hotshots was a new ESFA initiative for the 2021/22 season, focusing on intra-school football.

The project aim was to encourage as many young people as possible into organised team sport, regardless of ability and to encourage participating schools to organise intra-school football activity between 14th March 2022 and 27th May 2022. The ESFA incentivised this activity by entering each school that registered their Intra-School activity with us into a prize draw, with a chance to win £3000 for their school.

The initiative encouraged an amazing 31,364 pupils from around the country to take part in organised Intra-school activity with 17,808 boys, 12,512 girls and 1,044 SEND pupils involved. It has been great to see schools from all over the country sharing their Hotshots activity via the ESFA’s social media channels, with pupils of all ages and abilities getting to experience the benefits that schools’ football provides.

Prize Draw

All the schools’ that took part in the ESFA Hotshots initiative were entered into a prize draw for their particular category of school. The prizes for each category are as follows:

• 1^st Prize £3,000 Cash
• 2^nd Prize £300 Cash
• 3^rd Prize: Pro-Direct Football Equipment

Congratulations to the following schools’ who have been successful in this season’s prize draw:

Boys’ Primary School

• 1^st Prize ( £3,000): Bedfont Primary School (Middlesex)
• 2^nd Prize ( £300): East Preston Junior School (West Sussex)
• 3^rd Prize: (Pro-Direct Football Equipment): Colham Manor Primary School (Uxbridge)

Girls’ Primary School

• 1^st Prize ( £3,000): Fair Field Junior School (Watford)
• 2^nd Prize ( £300): Westgate Hill Primary Academy (Tyne and Wear)
• 3^rd Prize: (Pro-Direct Football Equipment): Veritas Primary Academy (Staffordshire)

Boys’ Secondary School

• 1^st Prize ( £3,000): Birley Secondary Academy (Sheffield)
• 2^nd Prize ( £300): The Heath School (Cheshire)
• 3^rd Prize: (Pro-Direct Football Equipment): All Saints Church of England Academy (Dorset)

Girls’ Secondary School

• 1^st Prize ( £3,000): The Gryphon School (Dorset)
• 2^nd Prize ( £300): Dallam School (Cumbria)
• 3^rd Prize: (Pro-Direct Football Equipment): Sidmouth College (Devon)

Boys’ Further Education

• 1^st Prize ( £3,000): The Warren School (Barking and Dagenham)
• 2^nd Prize ( £300): Samuel Whitbread Academy (Bedfordshire)
• 3^rd Prize: (Pro-Direct Football Equipment): Branston Community Academy (Lincoln)

Girls’ Further Education

• 1^st Prize ( £3,000): Carmel College (Merseyside)

Boys’ Small Schools

• 1^st Prize ( £3,000): North Waltham Primary School (Hampshire)
• 2^nd Prize ( £300): Tanworth In Arden CofE Primary School (Solihull)
• 3^rd Prize: (Pro-Direct Football Equipment): Woore Primary School (Shropshire)

Girls Small Schools’

• 1^st Prize ( £3,000): Broughton Moor Primary School (Cumbria)
• 2^nd Prize ( £300): Woore Primary School (Shropshire)
• 3^rd Prize: (Pro-Direct Football Equipment): Tanworth In Arden CofE Primary School (Solihull)

SEN Mixed Schools’

• 1^st Prize ( £3,000): Adelaide Heath Academy (Cheshire)
• 2^nd Prize ( £300): Carmel College (Merseyside)
• 3^rd Prize: (Pro-Direct Football Equipment): Farringdon Academy (Sunderland)

Congratulations once again to all the above schools. A big thank you to all the schools and pupils who took part in this new, ESFA Hotshots campaign and please look out for the continuation of this initiative for the 2022/23 season.