A spectacular week on the Gold Coast saw eleven Capital Football teams take on their peers from around Australia in the 2024 National Futsal Championship. There were amazing individual performances, outstanding team displays and goals, goals, goals!
Our goalkeepers were excellent, our defensive displays rock solid, our creativity sublime, and our finishing top notch. At the end of the Grand Finals, we also had a National Champion in our U15 Boys with our U13 Girls finishing a very respectable runner-up.
Here we recap on every result and goal scored by our teams in the competition.
U12 Boys
Pool: Victoria W 8-1 (Vikan (3), Mackintosh (2), Altamore, Wilkinson, McRae)
Pool: NSW Lightning D 5-5 (Altamore, Wilkinson, Burton, Vikan (2))
Pool: NSW Country L 7-10 (Altamore (2), Wilkinson, Mackintosh (3), Vikan)
Pool: Queensland Maroon L 3-8 (Wilkinson, McRae (2))
QF: NSW Thunder L 2-4 (Vikan, Mackintosh)
SCORERS
7 Kiran VIKAN
6 Alby MACKINTOSH
4 Dylan ALTAMORE, Miro WILKINSON
3 Kai MCRAE
1 Vincent BURTON
U13 Boys
Pool: South Australia D 6-6 (Pratezina (3), Birrell, Richards, Villatobas)
Pool: NSW Metro W 4-3 (Pratezina (3), Birrell)
Pool: Football West L 2-8 (Spiller, Villatobas)
Pool: NSW Country W 8-2 (Villatobas (3), Spiller, Sluce (2), Celebija (2))
Pool: Victoria L 0-4
Pool: Queensland L 2-8 (Villatobas, Richards)
SCORERS
6 Jacob PRATEZINA, Lucas VILLATOBAS
2 Elijah BIRRELL, Antun CELEBIJA, Curtis RICHARDS, Max SPILLER, Ryan SLUCE
U14 Boys
Pool: Victoria L 4-5 (Evans, Naveen, Celebija, Di Lulio)
Pool: Football West L 3-8 (Naveen, Perry, Shah)
Pool: NSW Thunder L 1-13 (Celebija)
QF: NSW Country L 2-14 (Evans, Perry)
SCORERS
2 Jethro EVANS, Nithin NAVEEN, Jamie PERRY
1 Tomislav CELEBIJA, Ishaan SHAH
U15 Boys
Pool: South Australia W 12-3 (Pratezina (3), Zwangobani, Noyen (4), Cussen, Andrija Rakic, Anthony Rakic (2))
Pool: NSW Metro W 4-1 (Zwangobani, Pratezina, Noyen (2))
Pool: Football West W 4-2 (Zwangobani (2), Andrija Rakic, Anthony Rakic)
Pool: NSW Country W 13-2 (Noyen (2), Celebija (3), Anthony Rakic (2), Pratezina (3), Zwangobani (2), Maglasis)
Pool: Tasmania W 11-5 (Cussen, Andrija Rakic (2), Anthony Rakic, Noyen, Celebija (2), Zwangobani (2), Pratezina (2))
Pool: Queensland D 1-1 (Pratezina)
SF: Football West W 6-0 (Pratezina (2), Anthony Rakic (2), Noyen (2))
GF: NSW Metro W 5-2 (Zwangobani, Cussen, Own Goal, Noyen, Pratezina)
SCORERS
13 Michael PRATEZINA
12 Jasper NOYEN
9 Cadel ZWANGOBANI
8 Anthony RAKIC
5 Nikola CELEBIJA
4 Andrija RAKIC
3 Xavier CUSSEN
1 Sean MAGLASIS, Own GOAL
Youth Men
Pool: Victoria W 6-2 (Waraga (2), Dickinson (2), Hedditch, Ness)
Pool: Queensland L 4-5 (Trushell, Waraga (2), Pratezina)
Pool: Football West D 3-3 (Pratezina (2), Hedditch)
Pool: NSW Lightning L 4-5 (Waraga (2), Pratezina (2))
Pool: NSW Thunder L 0-9
SCORERS
6 Atiya WARAGA
5 Nicholas PRATEZINA
2 Bailey DICKINSON, Joshua HEDDITCH
1 William NESS, Nichlas PRATEZINA, Max TRUSHELL
Open Men
Pool: Victoria Fitzroy L 1-4 (Subasic)
Pool: Football West Cumbre L 2-4 (Ciminelli, Subasic (p))
Pool: NSW Thunder L 2-5 (Dahl, Blount)
QF: NSW Lightning W 11-5 (Subasic (3), Darwich (2), Hawker, James-Ward (2), Dahl, Rinaudo (2))
SF: Victoria Moreland L 2-3 (Rathjen, Blount)
SCORERS
5 Nicholas SUBASIC
2 Nick DAHL, Elie DARWICH, Jayde JAMES-WARD, Michel RINAUDO
1 Ashley BLOUNT, Jono CIMINELLI, Brandon HAWKER, Nick RATHJEN
U13 Girls
Pool: South Australia Red W 10-1 (Eskinja (4), Fogg (2), Dorsett (2), Murphy, Shea)
Pool: NSW Lightning W 3-2 (Eskinja, Escobar, Dorsett)
Pool: Queensland Maroon W 4-2 (Murphy, Fogg (2), Eskinja)
Pool: Football Victoria W 4-3 (Murphy, Sisourath, Shea, Eskinja)
QF: NSW Country W 7-2 (Shea (2), Eskinja (3), Dorsett, own goal)
SF: NSW Lightning W 3-1 (Eskinja, Dorsett, Shea)
GF: NSW Thunder L 1-3 (Eskinja)
SCORERS
12 Danijela ESKINJA
5 Mackenna DORSETT, Samantha SHEA
4 Emily FOGG
3 Isla MURPHY
1 Frida ESCOBAR, Kayla SISOURATH, Own Goal
U15 Girls
Pool: NSW Country W 6-1 (Altamore (2), Peric (2), Kent, Richards)
Pool: NSW Thunder W 6-1 (Peric (2), Aspland (2), Kent, Cachia)
Pool: NSW Lightning W 3-0 (Ness, Peric, Aspland)
Pool: South Australia W 3-2 (Ruberto, Ness, Cachia)
Pool: Football West W 14-2 (Cachia (3), Ness (2), Peric (2), Altamore (2), Richards, Aspland (3), Ruberto)
Pool: Queensland L 0-2
SF: NSW Lightning L 1-4 (Aspland)
SCORERS
7 Tehya ASPLAND, Lucija PERIC
5 Madison CACHIA
4 Lily ALTAMORE, Sienna NESS
2 Brianna KENT, Jasmine RICHARDS, Tiarna RUBERTO
U17 Girls
Pool: South Australia W 4-1 (Barker, Palywoda (2), Steinacker)
Pool: NSW Metro L 1-3 (Ceruti)
Pool: NSW Country W 5-0 (Colwill, Mazis, Steinacker (2), McPherson)
Pool: Queensland D 2-2 (Yuen, Ceruti)
Pool: Victoria W 2-0 (Yuen (2))
SF: Queensland L 2-5 (Mazis, Ceruti)
SCORERS
3 Cara CERUTI, Maddie STEINACKER, Reilly YUEN
2 Tatum MAZIS, Sofia PALYWODA
1 Chloe BARKER, Kaitlyn COLWILL, Holly MCPHERSON
Open Women: COBRAS
Pool: Victoria Evolution W 6-4 (S. De Marco, N. De Marco, Lejins, Palombi, Berkeley, Thornton)
Pool: Queensland White W 4-0 (own goal, Palombi, S. De Marco, Gurney)
Pool: NSW Lightning W 1-0 (Palombi)
QF: Capital Football Colts W 8-0 (Palombi (2), Thornton, N. De Marco, Corbett, Robertson, S. De Marco, Aitolu)
SF: NSW Thunder L 1-4 (Palombi)
SCORERS
6 Brittany PALOMBI
3 Stella DE MARCO
2 Natalie DE MARCO, Michaela THORNTON,
1 Elke AITOLU, Jamie BERKELEY, Rachel CORBETT, Olivia GURNEY, Stefi LEJINS, Ayla ROBERTSON, Own GOALS
Open Women: COLTS
Pool: Victoria L 1-4 (Perry)
Pool: Queensland Maroon L 2-5 (Lamond, Birnie (p))
Pool: NSW Thunder L 0-6
QF: Capital Football Cobras L 0-8
SCORERS
1 Jada LAMOND, Nikita PERRY
