Over the past 4 weeks 21 clubs took part in an indoor U10 football league in a number of different venues throughout the county.

The rules of the indoor league differed to those which the players would normally play under at the GoGames with each team consisting of 5 players with up to 3 subs.

Playing rules;

– 2 teams start, the 1^st team to score stays on and the next team comes on straight away without the game stopping.

– When a team scores they must all touch their goals before they can retrieve the ball, also the team coming on must touch the opposite goals before they try and retrieve the ball.

– The team that loses goes to the end of the line.

– Goals only.

– 1 hop, no solo

– If a game was scoreless after 2 minutes both teams go off and the next 2 come on and start a new game.

– Any indiscipline shown by players will result in the opposition receiving a penalty kick.

– Only incidental contact was allowed with a clear focus on the near hand tackle.  Any free must be taken by the person who was fouled with the opposition no closer than 2 meters.

The county was divided into 3 different regions with clubs asked to attend either the Phoneix Centre Carrickmacross, St Macartan’s College Monaghan or Ballybay Community Centre.

Each team played for close to 2 hours every Saturday morning in this none stop game. With most clubs entering more than 1 team in total 35 teams took part with on average 190 children taking part each week.

Overall the league proved to be a major success with all clubs giving very positive feedback. We would encourage clubs to organise similar leagues in their own clubs.

Monaghan Coaching & Games would like to give special thanks to all the host venues for the use of their facilities and also to all the clubs that took part and made the league a success.