Super Saturday set to ignite Jamaica’s schoolboy football season

Jamaica’s schoolboy football season will take on a festival atmosphere this Saturday, September 12, when the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) stages its inaugural Super Saturday In-Season Festival at venues across the island.

The concept is a major departure from the traditional schoolboy football calendar. Rather than waiting for the seeded teams to enter the main competitions, ISSA has brought a number of the country’s leading Manning Cup and daCosta Cup teams together for a day of high-level exhibition football.

The festival is designed to keep the top-ranked teams match-ready after receiving byes into the second round of the respective competitions. Thirty teams are involved, with three Manning Cup and three daCosta Cup schools assigned as host venues. Each team will play twice.