play host to Crettyard United AFC at Home Ground

This is the first game for both teams in this competition

League leaders New Oak AFC Pink play host to 3rd placed St Fiacc's AFC at Burrin Rd Carlow (New Oak Boys) at 10 am

New Oak AFC Pink come from a crushing 1-7 win away against Ballymurphy Celtic. They are currently on a winning streak of 5 games.
Form: W W W W W L    Home Form: W W W

St Fiacc's AFC's last game was a unlucky 2-1 loss away against Burrin Celtic AFC.
Form: L W W    Away Form: L W W

A tough physical game for both sides played at an extremely high standard in Ballon today.

Knocknacarra from Galway were the visitors today in Ballon and are a very talented well drilled side.

Burrin Celtic girls left nothing on the field and with a single goal the difference shows how even the sides were.

Best for Burrin were Aoife Bergin, Abby Keppel, Ella Doyle and Eimear Bolger.

While Abi Gilligan and Kate Barrett(goal scorer) stood out for the visitors.

League leaders Bagenalstown AFC play host to 9th placed Ballymurphy Celtic at Ballymurphy at 10 am

Bagenalstown AFC has yet to be beaten in this competition, having won 4 out of its last 5 games.
Form: W D W W W    Home Form: W

Ballymurphy Celtic's last game was a comprehensive 6-2 loss away against St Patrick's Boys AFC Red.
Form: L D L L W L    Away Form: L L W

Crettyard United AFC play host to 11th placed St Joseph's AFC Blue at Crettyard Utd at 10 am

Crettyard United AFC has yet to be beaten in this competition, having won every game.
Form: W    Home Form: W

St Joseph's AFC Blue has yet to win in this competition, having lost all 7 games.
Form: L L L L L L L    Away Form: L L L L L

We are delighted to announce the start of our season this weekend. After a shortened season due to the outbreak of the coronavirus last March, we're all looking forward to Saturday and a full fixture card. Please remember that clubs will have protocols in place to ensure that all our players, coaches and families have a safe playing environment.

St Fiaccs 2 Ballingarry 1

A slow start saw St Fiaccs fall behind early to a strong Ballingarry team who travelled up from Limerick. St Fiaccs were slow to clear their backline and were punished when the ball spilled out and was knocked in the back of the net.

It didnt take St Fiaccs long to get their heads back on the game though and they played some great soccer with Ali O Connor and Jasmine Doyle running the midfield. Halftime 0 1

St Fiaccs won a free kick early in the second half and Katelyn Moran struck a great shot which was parried by the keeper but the ever reliable Ashlee Smith was on hand to poke home the equaliser. Ballingarry came back into the game and without Nicole Osborne in the Fiaccs goals, could have found themselves behind after Ballingarry created 3 good chances. Fiaccs kept the pressure on Ballingarry after this and scored a breakaway goal following some great counter attacking play involving Ciara Rooney, Leah Nelson and Ali O Connor to give Fiaccs a 2 1 win and a place in the last 16 in the SFAI competition. Best for St Fiaccs were Katelyn Moran, Jasmine Doyle and Nicole Osborne.

4th placed St Patrick's Boys AFC Red play host to 5th placed Vale Wanderers AFC at The Meadows Graiguecullen (St Pats Boys) at 10 am

St Patrick's Boys AFC Red's last result was a comprehensive 6-2 win at home against Ballymurphy Celtic.
Form: W W W L    Home Form: W W

Vale Wanderers AFC's last game was a crushing 10-0 win at home against St Joseph's AFC Blue.
Form: W L W L L W    Away Form: W L

8th placed Killeshin AFC play host to 7th placed St Joseph's AFC Black at Scats Quakers Park, Killeshin at 10 am

Killeshin AFC's last result was a 0-5 loss at home against Bagenalstown AFC.
Form: L W L W    Home Form: L W

St Joseph's AFC Black's last result was a poor 6-3 loss away against Crettyard United AFC. They have yet to win away from home.
Form: L D W L W L L    Away Form: L D L L L

2nd placed Hanover Harps AFC play host to 3rd placed Burrin Celtic AFC at The Plots (Hanover Harps) at 10 am

Hanover Harps AFC has yet to be beaten in this competition, having won 2 out of its last 4 games.
Form: D W D W    Home Form: D W W

Burrin Celtic AFC's last result was a 5-5 draw away against Baltinglass Town AFC.
Form: D L W D L    Away Form: D L

Burrin Celtic AFC play host to Hanover Harps AFC at The Valley Ballon (Burrin Celtic) at 11 am

This is the first game for both teams in this competition

Nurney Villa AFC play host to Parkville United AFC at Augha Road Nurney at 11 am

This is the first game for both teams in this competition

4th placed Killeshin AFC play host to 2nd placed Burrin Celtic AFC at Scats Quakers Park, Killeshin at 11:30 am

Killeshin AFC's last result was a narrow 4-5 win away against Nurney Villa AFC.
Form: W L L W    Home Form: W

Burrin Celtic AFC has yet to be beaten in this competition, having won every game.
Form: W W W W    Away Form: W

This was a great game of football with both teams keeping possession really well. Tramore started the better and nearly went 1 up after 10 minutes but Bill Roberts with a brilliant goal line clearance kept the game scoreless. Burrin hit the post in the first half with a chance from Bobby Finn. Both teams went more attacking in the second half with tramore scoring their first after 40 minutes with a nice finish into the corner. Burrin piled the pressure on from here but the keeper wasn’t tested. Tramore scored their second with minutes to go and against the run of play. Burrin can be very proud of how they played.

Man of the match was Burrin’s Colm Donald who did not let Tramore play through the middle.

This was a game that was played under perfect conditions. The sun was shining, and the weather was mild.

Gorey started the game very well, and we're 1 up after 11 minutes. The second goal came from a corner about 4 minutes after the 1st. Two more were scored on the 25 and 27 minutes.

St. Pat's started the better in the second half but were punished from a quick counter attack as they pushed for a goal in the 17th minute. Four goals within 6 minutes killed Pat's and ended all resistance.

Man of the Match was St. Patrick's Boys AFC goalkeeper Nicolas Sabando without whom the scoreline could have been much, much more.

Best of luck to Gorey Rangers in the next round and beware to the team who they have to play next. Excellent team with very strong substitutes.

Scorers for Gorey - Alex Devereux x3 . Cian Keating x3 . Stephen Murphy, Richard levingston, Karim Fulham

Hanover met Freebooters of Kilkenny on what started out as a wet morning. Hanover started on the front foot with some great attacking play, finally getting their rewards from a great pin point pass from Adam Haughney into Alex Mazur who put the ball in the net with an exceptional finish in the 26th minute. Only one minute later with another great team move from Hanover, Timmy Adeleye crossed in an amazing ball with Alex Broderick making sure of it with a header into the net. Half time 2-0 to Hanover.

This was a game of two halves with Freebooters on the front foot in the second half. They scored a goal straight off to get back in the game and within minutes it was 2-2. It was a true Trophy game with both teams giving it everything. It was Freebooters that scored the next goal to go 3-2 up but Hanover were not giving up and with an amazing free kick from Charlie McHugh to reach Brian Louw who scored a cracker of a header and it was a draw again with only minutes to full time. In the dying minutes Freebooters snatched the winning goal to end the game 4-3.

With an outstanding team performance from Hanover Harps it was Alex Mazur, Timmy Adeleye, Brian Louw and Adam Haughney that were a real thorn in the Freebooters side today.

Goal scorers for Hanover were Alex Mazur, Alex Broderick and Brian Louw.

Hanover Harps AFC welcomed Crettyard United AFC at home this afternoon in their first meet in the competition. The game started off well for both teams in a tightly contested first half. However the visitors took the lead in the game when Aaron Brennan beat the off side trap to open the scoring with a goal in last few minutes of the first half.

Hanover had a great chance to level the game very shortly after with a shot on goal by Nathaniel Jakubiec just skipping left of the post. Crettyard started off well in the second half with a few chances to extend the lead but Hanover upped their tempo and drove hard against the visitors. The home side were unlucky a couple of times not to get a score, being denied by the great skills of the Crettyard goal keeper Darragh Brennan.

In the dying stages of the match Hanover were all over the visitors and the equalizer came from a great corner kick by Andrian Robu that was unfortunately knocked into the goal by a Crettyard player.

Best for Hanover: Mael O Rock, Allen Bowe and Daire Brady

Best for Crettyard: Aaron Brennan, Darragh Brennan and Michael Brennan

The Super Bowl, Leighlinbridge was the venue for this girls U16’s league match between vale wanderers and killeshin.

Big changes to both line ups, meant the game started slow but vale pressurized the ball deep in the Killeshin half and Kate Burke was unlucky not to score. Vale found it hard to beat the very impressive Aoife Mullins in the killeshin goal, who was outstanding throughout the game.

With a few minutes left in the 1st half, vale’s dominance was rewarded, when, after an Indirect free kick, which was saved, Zoe Clarke mopped up the rebound and put vale 1 up at half time.

At the start of the 2nd half, vale made some changes, but still Killeshin showed great spirit and frustrated the vale girls. Katie O’ Reilly was putting in a very solid display in the backs for killeshin.

Eventually Vale doubled their score when Kate Burke found the ball in the box and got it over the line. After that, the game opened up for vale and they started to pass the ball around nicely with Carla Byrne impressing down the right.

Kate Burke’s 2nd of the match came about after she latched onto a long ball out of the Killeshin defence, brought the ball forward and slotted it away nicely into the right bottom corner.

Vale’s made it 4 after some nice play down the right and Kate Burke placed a lovely lob over the Killeshin keeper to get her hat trick for vale.

The game ended 4 nil to the Vale girls.

Killeshin put in a very valiant performance and the signs are there that they are improving from game to game.

Best for killeshin included Aoife Mullin, Katie O’ Reilly and Katie Kehoe.

Best for vale were Zoe Clarke, Sarah Devine Kate Burke and Carla Byrne.

Bridge Utd were the visitors today to the Meadows. The first 10 mins of the game Bride utd had a great chance to take the lead with a long range shot that nearly lobbed Luke Dooley in the Pats goal. Only for an absolutely brilliant save by Luke the visitors would have found themselves in front. Pats now started to play fast passing football and created numerous chances. Ruari Mcevoy in the center of the Pats defence was clearing everything that came his way. Some brilliant play by Zak Hernan and Shane Gurhy soon saw Pats take the lead when Shane Gurhy's long range shot ended up in the Bridge Utds net. Half time and Pats deserved the 1-0 lead.

A number of changes in the second half saw Emily Kelly in Midfield picking out some great passes to Brian Dos Santos who was a torn in the Utds defence all game. It wasn't long before Brian found Kacper Zarzycki to make it 2-0. Pats were now in complete control and created chance after chance. A great squad performance by St Pats with Mauro Perez, Shane Gurhy, Ruari Mcevoy & Brian Dos Santos all standing out.