ANOTHER successful year of Futsal in Suffolk has been completed.

The season saw teams competing in the County School Competition and The FA Pokémon Futsal Cup.

The FA Pokémon Futsal Cup

The FA Pokémon Futsal Cup saw 60-plus teams from around the county and a handful from out of county compete to be crowned Suffolk champions and move on the regional rounds of the competition, which will be taking place in Northampton.

The competition took place earlier in the year with local rounds in Lowestoft, Ipswich, and Bury St Edmunds to determine which teams went through to the county finals.

All the competitions were completed by the end of April with the next stage of the competition taking place in June.

The winners of each of the competitions were as follows:

U10 Boys – Norwich City

U10 Girls – Kesgrave Kestrels

U12 Boys – Norwich City

U12 Girls – Kesgrave Kestrels

U14 Boys – Beccles Town - Pictured above

U14 Girls – Woodbridge Town

U16 Boys – Haverhill Rovers

U16 Girls – Haverhill Rovers

Suffolk Schools’ Futsal Cup

The Suffolk Schools Futsal Cup has become a fixture of the Suffolk Youth football calendar and has seen even more participants playing Futsal, with more age groups and therefore fixtures/dates required for the competition to go ahead.

This year’s competition was the first year U12 (Year 7) & U14 (Year 9) boys and girls were part of the offering. Therefore, competitions took place at U11 (Year 6), U12 (Year7), U13 (Year 8), U14 (Year 9) & U15 (Year 10).

All participants were put into regional groups, with some requiring area finals before heading onto the county finals. The competition required 68 dates to reach its culmination, with 21 schools hosting fixtures throughout the season.

In total, 249 school teams participated in the competition, meaning over 1,000 players played in the competition during the 22/23 season.

The county winners for 2202-23 were as follows:

U11 Boys – St Marys Woodbridge

U11 Girls – St Johns

U12 Boys – Debenham – Pictured above

U12 Girls – Kesgrave – Pictured above

U13 Boys – Mildenhall – Pictured above
 

U13 Girls – Westbourne – Pictured above

U14 Boys – Sir John Leman – Pictured above
 

U14 Girls – Northgate – Pictured above

U15 Boys – Thomas Gainsborough – Pictured above  

U15 Girls – Debenham – Pictured above

Suffolk FA Football Development Officer (Retention) James Morley said: “This season has seen even more participants in Futsal across both competitions and is great to see this format develop in Suffolk.

“Numbers in the schools’ competition more than doubled with the addition of an extra 100-plus teams this year.”

The schools’ competition will return for the 2023-24 season.