Futsal in Scotland

Futsal, or indoor football, is a growing sport in Scotland. The Futsal Premiere League initiated a regional league in Edinburgh November 2005. The Scottish National Futsal League, FPL Scotland, followed in 2006. [cite web |url=http://www.thefpl.com/press11-SFA.htm |title=The SFA and SAFA will partner with the FPL to launch a futsal initiative in Scotland that should really help put futsal back on the map in Scotland. |date=November 2005 |accessdate=2008-07-09] FPL Scotland is sponsored by Tennent's, who have given away over 50,000 futsal balls,fact|date=July 2008 and now also sponsor the National Football Team. Additional support came from the Scottish Football Association and kit manufacturer Joma. The FPL Scotland is divided into three Series, A, B and C, as opposed to two in England. Winners of the FPL Scotland Serie A progress to the UEFA Futsal Cup.

In 2006 eight teams played in the first FPL Scotland Serie A:

*Aberdeen Cosmos
*Dundee Dynamos
*Edinburgh United
*Fair City Santos (Perth)
*Glasgow City
*Glasgow Maccabi
*Inverness Wanderers
*Perth New Muirton

The league champions, Fair City Santos, played in the first preliminary round of the UEFA Futsal Cup, against Adana from Armenia, Futsal Mad Max from Finland, and Roubaix from France, although they failed to progress to the next stage. [cite web |url=http://www.uefa.com/competitions/FutsalCup/news/Kind=1/newsId=430049.html |title=Scotland set for Futsal festival |publisher=UEFA |accessdate=2008-07-09] [cite web |url=http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scottish_football.cfm?curpageid=807 |title=International Futsal Tournaments |publisher=Scottish Football Association |accessdate=2008-07-09]

References

External links

* [http://www.thefpl.com/home.html The Futsal Premier League]