Cup Competition for the remainder of the season · Yellow Fever Nga Wana Kowhai

FROM CAP FOOTBALL TODAY!

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 weï¿½ve 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:-

ï¿½ 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)

ï¿½ 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.

ï¿½ Womenï¿½s 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/Womenï¿½s 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.

ï¿½ 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

ï¿½ If all weekends are cancelled the situation is very clear - we have no more

football to play.

ï¿½ 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.

ï¿½ 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

ï¿½ 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 Womenï¿½s

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