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LATEST NEWS
8/12/09 - 2010 Tournament
The opening date for applications for the 2010 Portadown FC Youth Soccer Festival is drawing near. Everything is in place for the tournament bar the actual date, the provisional date for the tournament is Saturday 22nd May (3 weeks earlier). The actual date should be confirmed before Christmas. The biggest change people will see with the tournament is that it is being staged at the home stadium of our parent club, Portadown FC.
We will be accepting applications from Monday 4th January 2010 and teams will have the opportunity to apply online from that date. Any team wishing to enter should email the club at portsyouth@yahoo.co.uk to register an interest and we will forward an online application on the opening date. If you would prefer to use the conventional paper form of application please let us know and we will send you a paper application to allow you to return it in time for the opening date. We would recommend that teams apply to enter as soon as possible from the opening date as we expect the 15 available spaces to fill up very quickly, we have already had teams from Scotland and the Republic of Ireland register an interest, so be quick!
The cost of entry will be £35.00/€40.00 per team.
8/12/09 - Tournament Sponsors
The tournament will again have Global Interiors as the main title sponsors. The club would like to thank Gus Murtagh for continuing to show his faith and support for the tournament.
11/12/09 - Tournament Date Confirmed
We are now in a position to confirm that the date for the tournament will be Saturday 22nd May 2010. We will now push ahead with promoting the day and will accept entries starting on Monday 4th January 2010. To receive an online application form please email the club your details and one will be sent to you on the opening day.
4/1/10 - Applications Open
The date for applications is now here and teams have already completed their online applications and returned them to us. There has been a large request for online applications and we do expect that the tournament will fill up very quickly so please return your form quickly to avoid disappointment.
5/1/10 - Filling Up Quickly
With the application process only open just one day the tournament is filling up very fast, so far we have enough applications to pass the half full mark. Again we would advise interested teams to get their applications in very quickly as available places will run out very soon.
7/1/10 - Last Few Places Remain
Time to hurry up is now here! With only a couple of places remaining this is more or less the last call for entries. There are a number of teams who have requested the online application forms but the problem now is that there have been more expressions of interest than available places so some teams are going to be disappointed, if you don't want to be disappointed please hurry up and get your application in.
11/1/10 - Full Up
Such was the response to this year's tournament all available places in the tournament have now been filled, all within seven days of opening the application period. For those teams who asked for but have not yet returned their forms, you will be included in the Reserve List if you return your form and indicate that you wish to be placed on the list. A full list of the teams will be posted in the coming days, including an U10 team from a Scottish First Division side and all of last years winners are also returning.
26/1/10 - Official Photo Partnership
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We are pleased to announce that the UK's largest sports event photographers, DE Photo, will be our official photography partners for the 2010 Portadown FC Youth Soccer Festival.
All DE Photos photographers are trained in all aspects of Child Protection and your photos will be printed on site on the day and in your hand ready to take home witin one minute of placing your order. |
9/2/10 - The Final Sixteen
We are pleased to announce the names of the sixteen teams that will be taking part in the 2010 Portadown FC Youth Soccer Festival. We have a good mixture of teams from all across Northern Ireland and even further afield, eleven teams from last year are returning to take part and that leaves five new teams. They are as follows;
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Airdrie United |
Ards Youth |
Ballinamallard |
Ballynahinch Youth |
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Carnmoney FDC |
Castle Juniors |
Cookstown Youth |
Dungannon United Youth |
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Hillsborough Boys |
Loughgall |
Lurgan Town |
Oxford United Stars |
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Portadown FC Youth |
Ridgeway Rovers |
Sunnyside |
Tandragee Youth |
14/4/10 - Airdrie United Withdraw
Unfortunately Airdrie United have informed the club that due to unforseen circumstances they have been forced to withdraw from the tournament. We are very sad to see this as we were looking forward to welcoming them as our first ever international participants. We have moved quickly though to fill the vacancy and Glentoran will now replace Airdrie United in the draw.
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