Champion Jabloteh meets ‘El Do’ school-boys in FA-Cup

It will be the first time Secondary School teams will be competing in the tournament since the early 1970s. The draw for the 36-team competition, which will kick off on January 21 and now in its 82nd edition took place at the T&TFF’s Dundonald Street, Port-of-Spain, office, yesterday.

Last year, Jabloteh registered its third lien on the trophy via 1-0 win over fellow Digicel T&T Pro League club, DirecTV North East Stars with Kennedy Hinkson, the scorer to land the $80,000 winner’s prize.

The 36 teams comprises, eight from the Digicel T&T Pro League, six from the bmobile National Super League, three each from the Eastern Football Association, Southern Football Association, Eastern Counties Football Union, Northern Football Association, Central Football Association and Tobago Football Association.

The three other zonal winners of the Secondary Schools Football League entered are St Anthony’s College, winners of the national League and Inter-Col titles as well as the North Zone League and Inter-Col; Carapichaima East Secondary (Central), and Scarborough Secondary (Tobago) while South Zone champions, Shiva Boys’s have not entered.