The 2023 spring flag football season opened last weekend with the VMFL holding its first jamboree at Town Centre Park in Coquitlam.
The Cloverdale Community Football Association (CCFA) sent multiple teams to the one-day tournament on April 22. Yeera Sami, CCFA club president, said 169 teams with approximately 1,800 players from multiple clubs participated.
“The season jamborees will be played each weekend shifting from community to community,” explained Sami. “Each of our teams played four games during the day.”
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Cloverdale sent teams in the U8, U10, U12, U14, U16, and U19 divisions.
“Our teams had a winning kick off to the season, three with sweeps,” added Sami. “We sent multiple teams in three of the divisions.”
The spring flag season is short, running approximately seven weeks. The season winds up with the provincial finals the second weekend in June—this year set for June 9-11 at South Surrey Athletic Park.
“Provincial winning teams in both the U16 and U19 divisions will then participate in regional final playoff rounds and those winners will then go on to national finals.”
Both the North Surrey Minor Football and White Rock South Surrey Minor Football associations were also in action April 22 at Town Centre Park.
All three clubs will battle it out again—with several others from the Vancouver Mainland Football League—April 29 at the spring season’s next jamboree to be held at McLeod Stadium in Langley.
For more info, visit the VMFL’s page on Facebook.
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