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ESFA Rep finals to be played at Southampton FC

The English Schools' FA

The ESFA is delighted to announce that two ESFA Inter-County finals will be played at the St Mary’s Stadium, home of Southampton FC.

The first match will be played on Tuesday 15th June which will see Gloucestershire SFA face Sussex SFA in the final of the ESFA U18 Inter County Cup for Boys.

Wednesday 16th June will see our two national finalists Kent SFA and Sussex SFA travel to Southampton FC for the final of the ESFA U14 PlayStation F.C. Inter County Cup for Boys.

Both matches will kick off at 14:15pm and will be live-streamed on our Youtube Channel ESFA TV with full match commentary.

Although this event sold out quickly we will be releasing additional tickets tomorrow Thursday 10th June for both events. This event is strictly ticket only so make sure your register for one of these tickets here.

The ESFA are delighted to be able to host the finals of the rep team competitions this season after the Covid-19 pandemic threatened to cancel the competitions completely. However, due to the hard work of our amazing volunteers and ESFA staff, the competitions have been able to go ahead and give the teams the opportunity to play in this grand venue.

For further updates, please keep an eye on ESFA social media accounts & tune into ESFA TV on Tuesday 15th June and Wednesday 16th June for full match coverage.

Football Development, Match Reports, National Competitions

Throwback Thursday- Rep football is back and better than ever!

The English Schools' FA

For this Throwback Thursday we travel back just a fortnight with ESFA photographer Garry Griffiths (353 Photography) who travelled around the North West covering three exciting first round fixtures.

Another relatively short throwback this week as we venture back just a fortnight to our opening travels of the 2020/21 season. With the pandemic forcing the cancellation of inter school matches, we are able to focus 100% attention on our representative football competitions which we did in a 3 day trip north, at the end of April.

Kicking the trip off in huddersfield, we saw Merseyside make the trip across the country on a sunny evening to face West Yorkshire. Having taken the lead midway through the half Merseyside were pegged back going into the break following a deflected shot that looped into the net. The visitors were soon back in front through some excellent long range strikes and a penalty from hat-trick man Kyffin. This flurry of second half goals extingusihed any hopes West Yorkshire had of making a comeback with Merseyside running out 7-1 winners and earning a trip to Staffordshire in the next round.

The following evening we covered that famous North West derby as Manchester hosted Liverpool in the Boys U13 Inter Association Trophy.

This cup tie was as dramatic as anything served up by the senior sides in the area as Liverpool found themselves 2-0 ahead at the break despite Manchester looking dangerous almost every time they ventured forward. After the break, a spot kick gave the home side hope before an equaliser midway through the half had the scores level going into the closing stages.

With extra time on the horizon it was the visitors who nicked it direct from a corner to edge through 3-2 although credit to Manchester who were excellent on the night despite going out of the competition.

Saturday morning then saw another derby as Preston hosted Bolton in the Under 15 Inter Association Trophy and we once again saw 7 goals for the visiting team.

Despite the final 7-2 scoreline in Bolton’s favour, the game was much closer than the scoreline suggests with the clinical nature of the visitors finishing the difference overall.

Leading 2-0 at the break the visitors increased the lead at the start of the second half but Preston hit back to give themselves hope, albeit quashed by a spectacular long range effort from 5 goal man Smith

Congratulations to all the teams involved and it certainly is good to have football back!