Steyning followed up their Year 5 Football Cup success last week with their A team triumphing in the Year 4 Football Cup this. Penalty nouse again came to the fore as they saw off the much fancied Leechpool A by that route in the semi before beating Kingslea, a team that finished ahead of them in the Phase 1 group stage, with a second half strike.
Eight teams came together in fine sunshine on the Tanbridge astroturf and were initially split between two Phase 1 groups which were topped by Kingslea and Leechpool A. Heron Way and Steyning A both also qualified for the upper tier, the former confidently but Steyning A had to wait on Castlewood’s result against Kingslea in the last match of Group A. Kingslea won but if Castlewood had of equalized they would have got through at Steyning A’s expense and history would have been written differently.
Castlewood’s consolation for coming so close to upsetting the big boys was to win the lower tier in good style with super wins over Steyning B and North Heath.
RESULTS
GROUP A 1st Kingslea 13 points 2nd Steyning A 11 pts 3rd Castlewood 9pts 4th Leechpool B 3pts | GROUP B 1st Leechpool A 13 points (GD+10) 2nd Heron Way 13pts (GD+4) 3rd North Heath 5pts (GD-5) 4th Steyning B 5pts (GD-9) | |||||
PHASE 1 GROUPS | ||||||
PITCH 1 | PITCH 2 | PITCH 3 | PITCH 4 | |||
Kingslea 3 v 0 Leechpool B | Castlewood 0 v 0 Steyning A | Leechpool A 3 v 0 North Heath |
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Leechpool B 0 v 2 Steyning A | North Heath 0 v 2 Heron Way | Steyning B 0 v 7 Leechpool A |
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Steyning A 0 v 0 Kingslea | Leechpool B 0 v 2 Castlewood | Steyning B 0 v 2 Heron Way |
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Kingslea 1 v 0 Castlewood | North Heath 0 v 0 Steyning B | Heron Way 0 v 0 Leechpool A |
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PHASE 2 PLAY-OFFS | ||||||
TIER 1 | TIER 2 | |||||
MATCH A Winner Gp A v Second Gp B Kingslea 3 v 2 Heron Way
| MATCH B Winner Gp B v Second Gp A Leechpool A 0 v 0 Steyning A Steyning win on sudden-death penalties | MATCH C Third Gp A v Fourth Gp B Castlewood 2 v 0 Steyning B | MATCH D Third Gp B v Fourth Gp A North Heath 1 v 0 Leechpool B | |||
FINAL Winner Mch A v Winner Mch B Kingslea 0 v 1 Steyning A | THIRD PLACE Loser Match A v Loser Match B Heron Way 0 v 2 Leechpool A | FINAL Winner Mch C v Winner Mch D Castlewood 3 v 0 North Heath | THIRD PLACE Loser Match C v Loser Match D Steyning B 2 v 0 Leechpool B | |||