Chester le Street Schools' District Team
2021/22
Even though the coronavirus hit grassroots football hard last season, ESFA were able to complete the Danone Sponsored National Competition for district teams. This is a competition which has been been run for many years and one in which Chester-le-Street have been very successful
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In previous years, the format has been 7 a side with each county nominating a team to represent them in the regional competition. This involved ten teams meeting in one venue but, of course, large groups are not allowed to meet
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Consequently, this season, it is an open 9 a side competition where two teams play each other and the winner progresses to the next round. The competition will be played this season using a similar format
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The dates of the early rounds are:
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1st Round November 6th
2nd Round November 27th
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Our first round match is at home against Wallsend
The Season So Far
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An opening friendly match against Derwentside ended up in a narrow 3-2 victory for Chester-le-Street. This was a pleasing performance which showed that, at the very least, the team will prove to be competitive
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Another friendly against Darlington built on the previous performance and ended up with a 4-0 victory, the highlight being a hat-trick scored by Alfie Ainsley. However, there were other good performances throughout the team
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The first competition of the season came in the form of a three-team tournament - The John Robson Trophy. District matches are usually tight and all three games proved to be just that. Our first match against Darlingon produced few chances but a fine strike from Josh Silvester won the match for us. Darlington and Sunderland produced another hard fought game and a last minute winner for Sunderland took them through to play Chester-le-Street in the decider
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One goal was enough to win the game and the trophy and it was Sunderland who scored the vital goal when we failed to clear a corner
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