Federation Cup Draw For 2011

The initial draw for the 2011 Federation Cup (mens and womens) has been completed.

Depending on who you follow, it looks good or not so good. All Premier League Clubs are participating, with Capital Football extending invitations to a small number of Clubs to join the competition.

Thre are plenty of pre-season games going on around the PL clubs, with many of them travellling to NSW to play. The Federation Cup will see some of them play each other and give an opportunity for the Football "brains trust" in every Club to observe their opposition in 2011.

Federation Cup form is not not an absolutel indicator of form, but it sure helps.

The competition groups for the Federation CUp are as follows, with a detailed playing schedule to follow soon:

Mens

Group A: Belconnen United, Canberra City, Canberra Olympic, Woden Valley, White Eagles, Tuggeranong United


Group B: Canberra FC, Monaro Panthers, Cooma Tigers, Queanbeyan City, Goulburn Strikers, Weston Creek

Womens

GroupA: Woden Valley, ANU WFC, Gungahlin United, Tuggeranong United




Group B: Belwest Foxes, Canberra FC, Weston Creek, Belconnen United

Goulburn Strikers Have Struck!

If you haven't caught up with the Federation Cup news, you must have been in a coma.

The Goulburn Strikers won over a terrific Belconnen United side in a penalty shootout!

I missed the game as my team (Woden) were playing a pre-season training game against Tuggeranong United. But I can tell you this, the mobile phones were running hot on the sideline as match updates were reported to us all by friends at Hawker.

Now Belconnen are a terrific Club but I doubt there was one person on the sideline at our training game who didn't hope for a Goulburn victory. Everyone loves an underdog! Belconnen will bounce back you can count on that, but Goulburn are getting better.

This is such a good result for Premier League football and for newcomers, Goulburn Strikers, who I have to say, have delivered on everything their Club President promised when he spoke to the NPL (see earlier posts). They have very reason to be quietly confident - they are the real deal!! Now everyone knows.

Now we have a Fed Cup final that is a little less predictable, before we hit the season proper! Marvellous!!

I'll quote the excellent match report from Capital Football (good one Russ):