festival format
dates & venue
Saturday 7th June & Sunday 8th June 2008 at Salford Sports Village, Littleton Road, Salford, Greater Manchester. Directions to the Sports Village are available on the About Salford Sports Village pages.
for whom
Affiliated Mini Soccer teams. Teams can be single sex or mixed (except girls-only competition) and squads can contain up to 10 players. Games are 6 v 6.
age groups
Teams should enter the festival in the age group that they are playing in during the 2007-08 season. Players shall not be permitted to play in a match where any player is younger by two years or more than that person.
groups
All teams will play in groups of five and compete for a group Fair Play trophy.
theme
2008 will see the 13th staging of the UEFA European Championships in Austria & Switzerland. The event opens on 7th June with the opening match in Basle. It will be by far the largest sporting event that has ever taken place in the two nations, and will again be the second major sporting event in terms of TV viewers - EURO 2004 took in 7.9 billion viewers in total, with more nearly 180 million people watching the final on live TV.
Each team will adopt the identity of a club from one of the competing nations, as they play to find our very own European Champions!
You can find out more about EURO 2008 at UEFA.com.
entry
£50 per team (with 10% discount for teams from Charter Standard Clubs).
'4 for 3' offer - if your club enters teams in four different age groups on the same application form, they will pay for only three of them.
| Age | Qualification | Date | Duration of Game |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under-7 | Born after 31st August 2000 | TBC | TBC |
| Under-8 | Born after 31st August 1999 | TBC | TBC |
| Under-9 | Born after 31st August 1998 | TBC | TBC |
| Under-10 | Born after 31st August 1997 | TBC | TBC |
| Under-10 girls | Born after 31st August 1997 | TBC | TBC |
| Under-12 girls | Born after 31st August 1995 | TBC | TBC |