Springfield, which was also the venue for the opening and closing ceremonies in 1997, will be used for a number of the football matches, as well as the final.
In the past 12 years, it has successfully staged prestigious international youth tournaments featuring the likes of Manchester United, Benfica, Glasgow Celtic and Boca Juniors as well as high profile exhibition matches between Jersey representative sides and professional outfits such as Everton, Coventry City and Stade Rennais.
Jersey has 19 football clubs, many of which boast sports pitches and clubhouse facilities of an extremely high standard. A number of these will be used for training and competition purposes.
Football
Venue |
Springfield, St Helier
FB Fields, St Clement
Les Quennevais, St Brelade
First Tower Football Club, St Peter
Grouville Football Club, Grouville
Jersey Wanderers Football Club, St Peter
Rozel Rovers Football Club, St Lawrence
St Brelade’s Football Club, St Brelade
St Clement’s Football Club, St Clement
St John’s Football Club, St John
St Ouen’s Football Club, St Ouen
St Peter’s Football Club, St Peter
Trinity Football Club, Trinity |
Competition area |
All venues are used on a regular basis and meet
relevant football specifications with appropriate
changing facilities. |
Spectator seating |
Springfield has permanent seating for 1000
spectators.
First Tower and St Peter’s have permanent seating
for 200 spectators. |
Present status of facility |
All venues are of high quality natural grass and are
used on a regular basis. |
Organisational capability of the Sport |
The Jersey Football Association (JFA) are well
established and regularly organise tournaments.
They propose setting up a competition
management team lead by JFA staff and Executive
members. They will also bring in a Competition
Assistant from the FA to assist in coordination of
the competition. |
Details of what has to be achieved to ensure the sport/discipline/event takes place |
Committee to be established.
Relevant officials to be brought into Island. |
Any additional comments |
The JFA recognise that they will need up to 55 match
officials. They will develop some of these locally but
will need to bring in others. A referee coordinator
will be part of the organising committee. |
