Falconnettes Champs the Unisex Futsal

Falconnettes Champs the Unisex Futsal

The tournament was held as part of the "Football Week" program. Unisex futsal was a tournament opened for guys AND girls in Curtin.
A team will consists of 4 guys, and 4 girls and at least 3 girls must be in the pitch at one time. There are many rules adjusted to contain the fairness as well the fun factor of the games. Examples are like, only girls can take free kick and kick in, girls are well protected as guys are not allowed to blast the ball (a gentleman game), and the most exciting is that a goal scored by a girl is counted as 2 goals.

The tournament was successfully attracted 10 teams, and held in 2 days (6th and 7th May) from 7pm to around 930pm. It was done in double-knockout system, which every team will play at least 2 times.
As we are all aware, cup tournament that involve single knock-out can be very cruel to certain teams if let say 2 strongest in the tournament drawn to play each other in first round. This tournament has proved this to be right and the cruelty of knock-out game was successfully lifted.
CiTY Club was beaten by Falconnettes in the first round, but they won all the games after that to claim their spot in final - to again play Falconnettes. The final ended 5-2 on Falconnettes side, to be crowned as the champion of this first ever tournament.


The tournament was very exciting, as 3 matches ended in penalty shot-out. Most attracting could be from first round, or the 3-4 play off.
In first round, Council Angels and Swimmers match ended with a draw, end the penalty was taken by all 8 players to decide the winner - from Swimming CLub. While, the 3/4 placing ended 2-2, goals from Taha(Rovers) in 9th minute, cancelled out by Nan's(BPP) at 10th, and the penalty won by Basket Poom Poom.
The first half of the final was a breath-taking one, after Ali(Falconnettes) scored, Bobby scored to give advantage to CiTY Club by 2-1. However, Falconnettes captain Abby scored to regain the lead on Falconnettes' side. Abby scored another to seal the win for them.

There are 3 individual awards allocated. Top Scorer went to Bobby for her 10 goals in the tournament. MVP Ladies category also belongs to Bobby, and Nan from Basket Poom Poom announced Guys MVP.