Last weekend saw the U10 and U14 girls clubs competing in the final two Herefordshire FA qualifying tournaments for the FA Pokemon Youth Futsal Cup.


In total across four boys and four girls agegroups over 50 teams and almost 500 players have taken to the futsal court over the past 2 months aiming to become county futsal champions and earn the right to represent Herefordshire in the regional rounds of this national competition.

Darren Braithwaite, who organised the qualifying tournaments with his team at Futsal Futures was impressed with the action on display; "It was great that not only did the number of teams taking part increase this year, but also the standard of play was better than ever before.  I have every confidence the Herefordshire teams will fare well in the next round. Good luck to all the Herefordshire winners"

The 8 club winners will be joined by 6 school sides with the schools competition still ongoing and set to be completed in the new year. Herefordshire clubs and schools have a fine pedigree in this competition, producing regional and national futsal champions on several occasions.

Dan Chance, futsal lead at Herefordshire FA said "We would like to issue a big thank you to Futsal Futures for once again organising some fantastic competitions and to all the teams who turned up and took part. Finally a big congratulations to all the winners who will go on to represent Herefordshire in the next rounds of the FA Pokemon Youth Futsal Cup; we can't wait to see how they get on!"