For the
second year running, Lukas Ciganek drew the balls (well, crumpled up
pieces of paper actually) from the hat and the teams were split quite
evenly as follows:
Tournament favourites and holders Wilderness escaped an early meeting
with arch-rivals SEWS and cheers were heard when both Akkies teams
were drawn in the same group!
Each team
in the group games won at least one match each, just showing how close the
level each group was. Wilderness finished the group stage unbeaten and
were looking in fine form to win the competition for a third year.
However,
the quarter finals saw the holders go out to 2 FC Tryskac and
surprisingly all four qualifying teams from group II went onto the semi
finals!!
2 FC
Tryskac were over the moon to finish 3rd after winning the penalty
shoot-out against Alcatel; the latter who were again unable to produce the
goods in the 3rd place play-off...