WRGFL & YU18GFL NEWS

WRGFL CUP/SHIELD Q/F AND S/F DRAWS

Please follow the link (the photo) to the Cup Semi-Final and Shiled Quarter-Final draws. All other round dates are confirmed and appear below the Cup/Shield draws for each age group. Good luck to all teams going into games in both competitions.

WELCOME TO SOME OF OUR NEWEST MEMBERS

Battyeford Belles U7's and Wetherby Athletic U7's took to the field for the first time in the WRGFL. Both teams battled hard and did themselves proud during what was a great game of football. Well done to both teams who swapped the usual indoor gala at A1 Football Factory for the hallowed turf of Mirfield. Both teams take a bow...........

AUSTRALIAN WANDERERS VISIT THE WEST RIDING

U15'S V BRIGHOUSE JUNIORS/KIRK DEIGHTON

England victorious in grassroots football 'ashes'

On Thursday 9th January a West Riding Girls Football League U15s representative team took on the visiting Australian Wanderers under the floodlights at Brighouse Town.

The Australian Wanderers are a team from all corners of Australia on a tour of England and France. This was their sixth game of the tour and proved to be a close fought and entertaining affair. The WRGFL squad was made up of representative from Brighouse Juniors and Kirk Deighton Rangers and the girls bonded really well as they came together to represent the league and England.

WRGFL started well taking an early lead but as expected the Australians fought back to equalise. It was a very competitive match with strong challenges and excellent flowing football played by both sides. WRGFL re-took the lead to head into half-time 2v1 ahead. The second half was played in the same manner with both sets of players determined to win. The size of each squad meant lots of changes throughout the game but the high quality of the football never dropped. WRGFL scored an excellent third goal and then put some daylight between them and the Australians with a fourth. The Australian Wanderers never gave up and pulled it back to 4v2 but the WRGFL victory was sealed with a fifth, and the final, goal of the match. The game was played in a fantastic spirit and this continued in the clubhouse afterwards where the girls shared a much earned dinner. The Australian Wanderers very kindly provided antipodean themed gifts to the WRGFL girls as mementos of a great night of international competition and camaraderie.

Thanks to Brighouse Town for hosting, the WRGFL for organising and to Brighouse Juniors and Kirk Deighton Rangers for impeccably representing the league. We wish the Australian Wanderers all the best for the rest of their tour.

U17'S V BRIGHOUSE TOWN

FA MATCHDAY APP GOES LIVE

Please remember that
FA Matchday App goes
Live on 1 January 2020.
All team Sheets and
match results should
be sent to the WRGFL

via the App.

FA MATCHDAY APP PRESENTATIONS 16/17 DECEMBER 2019

The WRGFL are moving over to FA Matchday App on 1 January 2020. All matchday paperwork, team sheets and reporting of results will be done via the App.

For those managers still not confident in the use of FA Matchday App the WRGFL/WRCFA are running some FA Matchday App Presentations on Monday 16 December 2019 and Tuesday 17 December 2019 . There will be two presentations each evening at 19:00 and 20:30.

For more information please click on the picture link above.

THE LEAGUE CONSTITUTION and FIXTURES will be published on FA FULL-TIME on Thursday 15 August 2019.

The season will kick off on Saturday/Sunday 14/15 September 2019.

The Cup Finals will be at Ackworth on Saturday 16 May 2020 and Shield Finals at Ackworth on Sunday 17 May 2020

YOUR GUIDE TO THE SIN BIN!

The Sin Bin will be used in the WRGFL and YU18GFL from season 2019/2020. The following information will help you uderstand what will happen on match day.

Please click on the button below to find out more

SIN BINS

PLAYER REGISTRATIONS AND EMAILS SEASON 2019/2020

The WRGFL is going into it's third season using WGS as our player registration default. Players registered for 2 seasons will need an updated photograph this season before the system will allow registration.

As well as a photograph and in preparation for next season when emails become mandatory we are asking for an email contact for all players. The best way to get your players/parents ready for the new technology coming through is to link a parent to your players and get them a FAN. The FAN will enable them to use the FA Website for a whole host of thing but importantly when purchasing tickets for international matches.

By creating a FAN your parents will also be able to create an FA Matchday App Account and have the fixtures, tables and a host of other things related to their team at their fingertips.

We appreciate this is going to create a little extra work when registering players this season but it will be worth the extra minutes in the long run.

Get those players registered as quickly as possible. As a league we recommend this is done prior to the players breaking up from school for the summer holidays. The league kicks off on 14/15 September 2019 and we expect all girls to be registered a minimum of 7 days prior to the big kick off.