National Youth Championships Final Results:

National Youth Championships Come to a Close: Results here. Report form Capital Football's Chris Gottaas



Both the ACT boys under14’s and under 15’s have finished their national championships on a high. The 14’s, in their first national championships, defeated NSW Country 4-1 in a playoff for 9th/10th while the 15’s beat Country Victoria 5-1 in their 7th/8th playoff this afternoon in Coffs Harbour.

Coming into their final pool match yesterday, the ACT under 14’s had a chance to finish at the top of Group B and contest the semi finals but a 2-nil loss to Northern NSW meant they finished in 5th and had contest the 9/10 playoff such was the competitiveness of the pool.

The 14’s got their championships off to the flyer when they were undefeated after the first three matches but two losses in the final two matches to South Australia and Northern NSW proved their undoing.

“I’m really proud of the boys, the [under] 14’s did a great job, unfortunately two results got away from us towards the end which meant the difference between a possible national championship and ninth place,” Capital Football’s Technical Director Ian Shaw said

For the 15’s, they opened their championships with a 1-all draw against WA but it wasn’t until the fourth game that the ACT 15’s recorded their first victory with a 5-nil defeat of Tasmania, followed by a 3-all draw against Queensland Metro in the final pool match.

Currently the championship groups are based on last year’s results but according to Shaw this creates an uneven distribution of teams between groups.

“It’s really unfortunate, I’m not going to make any excuses but I think the FFA has to take a look at the format because the unevenness between groups played a big part when Capital Football was placed in the more difficult group,” Shaw said.

Results:

Under 14’s
Under 15’s

Capital Football 1 Qld Metro 0
Football West 1 Capital Football 1

Capital Football 5 Northern Territory 0
NSW Metro 3 Capital Football 1

Queensland Country 0 Capital Football 0
South Australia 2 Capital Football 1

South Australia 3 Capital Football 1
Capital Football 5 Tasmania 0

Capital Football 0 Northern NSW 2
Queensland Metro 3 Capital Football 3

Capital Football 4 NSW Country 1
Capital Football 5 Victoria Country 1