No fewer than 10 schools have booked their tickets to the zonal stage of the ongoing 2024 Delta State Principals Cup football competition.
The annual youth developmental football competition being sponsored by Zenith Bank Plc kicked off on October 7 in all the 25 local government areas of Delta State.
In some of the local government finals, Okene Secondary School, Okuokoko defeated Orerokpe secondary school 2-1 in the final of Okpe LGA, while Okotie-Eboh Government School defeated Institute of Continue Education 4-3 to claim Ika South local government’s ticket for for zonal stage.
Also, lghogbadu Secondary School emerged the Champion of Warri South after whipping Essi College 5-2, just as Delta State Polytechnic Staff Secondary School defeated Comprehensive Secondary School 2-1 to become the LGA champion of Aniocha South.
Other zonal qualifiers are Baptist High School for Ethiope West, Ugbromo Secondary school for Uvwie LGA, Iwere College, Koko for Warri North,
Kpakiama Secondary School for Bomadi LGA, Christ the King Secondary school for Burutu LGA and Umutu Mixed Secondary School for Umutu Ukwani LGA.
The CEO of Hideaplus, organisers of the tournament, Tony Pemu, said more qualifiers would emerge today while the timeline will continue as scheduled.
“This edition has been highly competitive and interesting. Many of the schools are here with highly talented players and we are going to have more interesting games in the final stages,” Pemu said.
According to the timeline of the event, October 22nd and 25th will witness the zonal matches involving 25 teams which will produce the eight quarterfinalists.
The quarterfinals will take place next Monday October 28, semifinals are billed for October 30th while the Final and Third Place matches will be decided on November 7.
Zenith Bank, in partnership with the Delta State government has been staging the annual competition which is now in its 7th edition.
