The Mayor of Sligo, Cllr Rosaleen O’Grady last Friday conducted the official launch of the 2012 College Football Association of Ireland Umbro Cup Finals which will take place on March 7th and 8th.
The event will see 2 semi-finals and 4 finals contested by 10 colleges from across the island who have won their way through to the latter stages of the college’s cup competitions.
The UMBRO Colleges Cup which has been running since 1973 saw 26 third level colleges from across the island of Ireland compete in the largest third level knockout competition. The UMBRO Colleges plate is a competition for teams who are defeated in the first round of the Colleges Cup.
The Robert Eustace Cup, now in its sixth year, is limited to teams which compete in Division two of the Colleges and Universities Football League, and will be contested by 16 teams this year. The cup is played in honour of Bob Eustace the associations former Chairman and current President.
The third cup is The B-Teams Cup, which is a competition for the second teams of colleges who compete in the UMBRO Colleges Cup. Also in it’s sixth year, this year’s competition will be contested by a further 16 teams.
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Above: Pictured at the launch last Friday are Grainne O Boyle, IT Sligo Women’s Soccer Team; Liam Martin, IT Sligo Men Soccer Team & Sligo Rovers Scholarship Student; Cllr Rosaleen O’Grady, Mayor of Sligo, Padraic Carney -Chairman of CFAI; Conor McLaughlin, IT Sligo Men Soccer Team and Sligo Rovers Scholarship Student; and Kim Flood, IT Sligo Women’s Soccer Team.
Middle: Pictured at the launch last Friday are Adrian Forkan, Umbro; Gordon Ryan, Head of Development and Business Operations at IT Sligo; Cllr Rosaleen O’Grady Mayor of Sligo; Padraic Carney, Chairman of CFAI; and Gerry Dalton, Knocknarea General Manager.
Below: Pictured at the launch of the CFAI Umbro Cup Finals 2012 at IT Sligo last Friday are Emma Mullin, FAI Development Officer at IT Sligo; Padraig Carney, CFAI Chairman; and Ross Lappin, Sport Development Officer at IT Sligo. The Umbro Cup Finals will be hosted at the Institute on March 7 & 8.