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At the end of last year it was agreed by clubs to have 8 team leagues and introduce a Cup Competition at the end of the completion of the leagues. The intention was still to try and have
18 games throughout the season.

The format of the Cup Competition was for each league to be split into 2 pools of 4 randomly drawn. It would be run over 4 weekends being a 3 weekend round robin and a finals weekend. With the number of cancellations we’ve had this season, it may be that there has to be a modified version of the Cup Competition. This could be a knock out cup over two weekends for example. Capital Football is commencing the Cup Competition for a number of leagues this weekend with the pools named Gold and Black

The following is our intention for running the cup competitions over the remainder of the season:-

Capital 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, and 15, and Masters 3 and 4
These grades are able to start this coming weekend. If there are no cancellations, there will be
3 weekends of Round Robin (8/9 August, 15/16 August, 22/23 August) with 29/30 August as the Finals Day (with 5/6 September as the back up Finals Day)

Capital 9, 10, 11 and Masters 1
If there are no cancellations this coming weekend, the teams in these grades will start their cup competition a week later. Again if there are no cancellations over the round robin period, there will be 3 weekends of Round Robin (15/16 August, 22/23 August, 29/30 August) and 5/6 September as the Finals Day.

Women’s Divisions have a round of catch up games this weekend. There is also a more pressing need to have the women finish on 29/30 August with Secondary Schools tournament week the following week.

The Cup Competition will be over three weekends 15/16 August, 22/23 August, and Finals on 29/30 August. The format will be a knockout competition within each league.

Each team will be randomly drawn to play another team just as in the Chatham/Women’s Knock out Cup. The first weekend (15/16) the winners will go to the Cup semis, the losers to the Plate semis, the next weekend (22/23) the winners will then go to the Cup Final and Plate Final. This will involve 4 teams on 29/30 August.

There are number of scenarios to be considered:

- one weekend out of the next four weeks cancelled
- two weekends cancelled
- three weekends cancelled
- all weekends cancelled - unlikely but given the winter so far not impossible

If all weekends are cancelled the situation is very clear - we have no more football to play.

If we end up with the next three weekends being cancelled there will be one weekend of the Cup Competition taking place on 29/30 August for all divisions and will simply be 1 v 2, 3 v 4, 5 v 6 and 7 v 8.

If we have only two weekends to complete the competition, it will become a knock out competition, split into top 4 and bottom 4.
1 v 4 and 2 v 3, winners through to Cup Finals, losers to Plate Final. Similarly 5 v 6 and 7 v 8

Finally if we only have one weekend cancelled, the Cup Competition will run over three weekends and the format will run the same as the Women’s teams.

This gives an idea of how Capital Football intends to proceed. However, this will have to be judged after each weekend and whether there have been any cancellations. We will keep you posted on this.