UniBond Premier League Marine have announced that they are to stage a junior soccer festival at the Arriva Stadium at the end of the current season.

The event is to take place over two days on Saturday 1st and Sunday the 2nd of May.

The beckie-l.co.uk Marine FC junior soccer festival will involve teams from four age groups with the U7s and U9s competing on Saturday 1st May starting at 10.00am and the U8s and U10s games taking place on Sunday 2nd May also starting at 10.00am

Each day of competition will consist of 14 seven-a-aside teams per age group made up of 2 groups of 7 teams and each game will be 12 minutes one way. All players will receive medals for participating in the festival.

Details of the beckie-l.co.uk Marine FC junior soccer festival can be found on www.marinefc.com or www.minimariners.moonfruit.com or contact can be made with Colin Begbie directly on 07891-110869 or email him on cbegbie@talktalk.net for any further details.

To register your team, please complete the tournament application form on the websites and return it with the required payment as soon as possible on the address on the registration form.

Marine Chairman Paul Leary said, “This is an important extension of our work in the community and sees us provide the Arriva Stadium as a venue for an exciting two day soccer festival at the end of our season. The beckie-l.co.uk Marine FC junior soccer festival is a joint project between the managers of our junior teams and the Clubs Management and it is hoped that it will be hugely successful and become an annual event. The stadium provides an exceptional venue for the children who can gain a real experience of playing in a tournament in a real football environment and I look forward to working the managers of our junior teams to provide another community event from the home of Marine FC.”