On Saturday 4th July the Kent FA hosted the South East regional qualifying tournament for the National Ability Counts Finals, in partnership with Maidstone United Football Club.
The tournament was held at Cobdown Sports and Social Club in Aylesford and attracted twelve 7aside disability football teams from across the South East region. The festival divided the teams into three different ability banded competitions and the teams that participated were as follows:
Premiership Tournament
Brighton and Hove Albion FC
MK Dons DFC
Thanet Galaxy DFC
Folkestone Invicta DFC
Championship Tournament
Larkfield DFC
Maidstone United FC
St Alban’s City Youth DFC
Thanet Galaxy DFC
League Tournament
Brighton and Hove Albion DFC (A)
Brighton and Hove Albion DFC (B)
St Margaret’s FC
St Alban’s City Youth DFC
The event was blessed with good weather which added to the enjoyment of the day. Football Development Officer Stephanie Gadd said “it was great to see teams from Kent and the surrounding counties take parting this prestigious event. Disability football has snowballed in Kent in the last four years from nothing to having a thriving Disability League, a Disability Centre of Excellence and high profile tournaments such as this one”. All three divisions operated on a league basis and were eagerly contested affairs. The eventual winners and runners up were as follows:
Premiership
Winners – MK Dons DFC
Runners Up – Brighton and Hove Albion FC
Championship
Winners – St Albans’s City Youth DFC
Runner Up – Larkfield DFC
League
Winners – Brighton and Hove Albion FC
Runners Up – St Alban’s City Youth DFC
Congratulations to all the winners who will now go through to compete the National Abiltiy Counts Finals at the end of July. A big thank you to Maidstone United Football Club who helped to organise the event and provided the referees for the event. For more information about disability football please contact Stephanie.gadd@kentfa.com.
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