Whitehall Academy football reaching exciting finale

The Whitehall Football Academy (WFA), in partnership with the Barbados Football Association, the National Sports Council, Rubis West Indies Ltd, Carters Fisherman’s Corner, Spar Sports, Neighbourhood Care, Kirk Edwards (Cricketer) and Grenal Sports, have led the way to an exciting, competitive and developmental restart of youth football in Barbados. 

This initiative is through a Barbados Football Association (BFA) sanctioned youth tournament. The tournament has a developmental category for children in primary school, the Under-10 Grassroots Rallies. There are also two competitive categories for children in secondary school, the Under 14 & Under 16 Competitions. This youth tournament is called The Development Cup. The following football clubs participated in the various categories of the tournament: Pride of Gall Hill, Paradise F.C, Britton’s Hill F.C, Barbados Soccer Academy, Mavericks S.C, Pro Shottas F.C, United Stars Alliance F.C, Technique F. C, Youth Milan F.C, Whitehall F. A, Blaze F.C and Soccer Bim F.C.

The tournament was designed to help the clubs with youth teams to be properly prepared and organized for the restart of the BFA’s junior tournaments and grassroots football in 2023. These matches have reignited the young charges’ interest in the ‘beautiful game’ once again. The social impact the tournament has created is awesome. It has acted as a catalyst to start moving some of young footballers away from the crime and violence now plaguing communities.

This tournament has also proven to be a tool to help get the youngsters back out of their homes from spending numerous hours playing video games, to being back on the football field participating in sporting activity and exercise, while representing their clubs and schools now the Covid-19 pandemic is departing and the world is returning to normalcy.

The tournament began on August 27, 2022. The preliminaries were played at Warleigh playing field, Whitehall, St. Peter, Lumber Company playing field and the Pine Resource Center, both in St. Michael. The quarterfinals of the U14 Category were played on Saturday, November 5, at the Pine Resource Center, St. Michael. The semifinals will be played this Saturday at Warleigh playing field. Matches are as follows:

 U14 Semifinals

10:00 p.m. Pinelands Y.S.A vs Technique F. C

11:30 p.m. NSC Ballers vs Paradise F. C

U16 Semifinals 

1:00 p.m. Paradise F. C vs Pro Shottas F. C

2:45 p.m. Technique F. C vs Whitehall F. A

The tournament will culminate on Saturday November 19, 2022at Warleigh Playing field, St. Peter from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. with the following events: 

U10 Grassroots Rally #3 & Presentations 

U14 & U16 Finals & Presentations 

“Bim United” 2023 U19 Trial Match #1 (PR