Association Football

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 69, 18 September 1937, Page 23

Association Football

FIVE-A-SIDE TOURNAMENT

PROVISION FOR TWO GRADES

The Soccer season in Wellington this year is to conclude with the five-a.side tournament to be held at the Kilbirnie Stadium on Saturday fortnight, October 2, and judging from the inquiries received from clubs by the Wellington Football Association the final day should prove exceedingly successful. At this week's meeting of the management committee of the association the secretary (Mr. W. J. Arcus) reported that he had had numerous inquiries about the five-a-side tourney, and he passed them on to the committee, whose most important decision arising from them was that the tournament should not be run as an open one for all teams, as had originally been intended, but should be split into two grades, one for-first,...second,. and third division teams, and one for all lower than those. ~

Such a; decision will be welcomed by the many Intending younger competitors, ' ''whose chances' of success against senior players would be small indeed. The splitting of the tourney into two grades will/Inevitably .increase the interest and the number of entries. . ■ ' ' ' ; ' • It is intended to make each game of two seven-minute spells, so that a game can be got off in a quarter of an hour. The result will be decided on points, of which,two will be awarded for a goal andfphe.for a corner kick. Elimination will be by means of the knock-out system. , :-, .- The games are to be played on the two grounds at the Kilbirnie Stadium, which offer not the;best possible surfaces but'the best available at so late a date. Proceeds of the tournament are to go to the queen carnival funds.