A spectacular week in Melbourne saw ten Capital Football teams take on their peers from around Australia in the 2025 National Futsal Championship. There were amazing individual performances, outstanding team displays and plenty of 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 Open Women’s – Blue, with the team going undefeated the entire tournament.
Two ACT players won the Golden Shoe being Mounir Jbeili (U12 Boys – 12 Goals) and Brittany Palombi (Open Women 11 – Goals). Jbieli was also awarded the MVP award for the U12 Boys, adjudged to the best player in the competition.
Read on below, as we recap every result and goal scored by our teams in the competition.
UNDER 12 BOYS – BLUE
RESULTS:
R1 vs BYE
R2 vs Football West L 1-2 (Newick)
R3 vs Football NSW Lightning L 2-7 (Haebich, Pearson)
R4 vs Football NSW Country W 6-1 (Newick (2), Chapman (3), Ostor)
R5 vs Football Queensland Maroon L 1-2 (Laurel)
QF vs Capital Football Gold L 0-2
SCORERS
3 Cooper NEWICK, Brendan CHAPMAN
1 Benjamin LAUREL, George OSTOR, Jack PEARSON, Matthew HAEBICH
UNDER 12 BOYS –GOLD
R1 vs Football South Australia W 7-4 (Jbeili (2), Oh (2), Bevan, Ogbonnaya)
R2 vs Football Tasmania W 10-0 (Spiller (2), Mcrae, Jbeili (3), Felix (3), Oh)
R3 vs Football Victoria W 5-4 (Phillips (2), Jbieli (2), Ogbonnaya)
R4 vs Football Queensland White W 5-1 (Ogbonnaya (2), Jbieli (2), Felix)
R5 vs Football NSW Thunder W 5-1 (Mcrae (2), Jbeili (2), Bevan)
QF vs Capital Football Blue W 2-0 (Mcrae, Jbieli)
SF vs Football NSW Lightning L 3-4 (Mcrae, Oh)
SCORERS
12 Mounir JBIELI
5 Kai MCRAE
4 Julian FELIX, William OH, Chigozie OGBONNAYA
2 Elliot BEVAN, Henry SPILLER, Hunter PHILLIPS
UNDER 13 BOYS
R1 vs Football NSW L 0-13
R2 vs Football Victoria Navy L 2-6 (Vidler-Wilkinson (2))
R3 vs Football South Australia W 6-2 (Vidler-Wilkinson (4), Lukasik, Altamore)
QF vs Football NSW Lightning L 0-7
SCORERS
6 Miro VIDLER- WILKINSON
1 Dylan ALTAMORE, Sebastian LUKASIK
UNDER 14 BOYS
R1 vs BYE
R2 vs Northern NSW Football W 9-1 (Birrell (4), Spiller (3), Adhami, Moss)
R3 vs Football Queensland L 1-6 (Moss)
R4 vs Football West L 2-12 (Spiller (2))
R5 vs Football NSW Lightning L 2-8 (Spiller (2))
QF vs Football Victoria L 1-7 (Birrell)
SCORERS
7 Max SPILLER
5 Ellijah BIRRELL
2 Elliot MOSS
1 Karim ADHAMI
OPEN MEN
R1 vs Football NSW Lightning L 3-6 (Basser-Silk (2), Rinaudo)
R2 vs Football West L 6-10 (James-Ward, Dahl, Macor, Rathjen, Gaspari)
R3 vs Football Victoria Tigers L 1-5 (Macor)
QF vs Football Victoria Blues L 2-6 (Rinaudo (2))
SCORERS
3 Michael RINAUDO
2 Luca MACOR, Ben BASSER-SLIK
1 Jayde JAMES-WARD, Josh GASPARI, Nick DAHL, Nick RATHJEN
UNDER 13 GIRLS
R1 vs Football NSW Country W 6-0 (Selkirk (3), Sisourath, Ruberto)
R2 vs Football Victoria White L 0-1
R3 vs Football West L 0-4
QF vs Football NSW Thunder L 0-8
SCORERS
3 Ruby SELKIRK
1 Kayla SISOURATH, Mikaela RUBERTO
UNDER 15 GIRLS
R1 vs Football Victoria Navy W 3-1 (Joehnk-Escobar, Shea, Murphy)
R2 vs Football NSW Lightning L 2-3 (Altamore, Rodda)
R3 vs Football Queensland D 2-2 (Shea, Murphy)
QF vs Football NSW Country W 5-0 (Altamore (2), Murphy, Dobbie, Joehnk-Escobar)
SF vs Football Queensland D 0-0 (FQ won 4-2 on Penalties)
SCORERS
3 Liliana ALTAMORE, Isla MURPHY
2 Frida JOEHNK-ESCOBAR, Samantha SHEA
1 Sophia DOBBIE, Eden RODDA
UNDER 17 GIRLS
R1 vs BYE
R2 vs Football Queensland D 0-0
R3 vs Football NSW Lightning L 0-5
R4 vs Football Victoria W 2-1 (Robertson, Ness)
R5 vs Football South Australia L 2-3 (Reilly, Toseland)
R6 vs Football NSW Storm L 1-2 (Robertson)
R7 vs Football NSW Thunder L 0-7
SCORERS
2 Emily ROBERTSON
1 Gemma TOSELAND, Georgia REILLY, Sienna NESS
OPEN WOMEN – BLUE
R1 vs BYE
R2 vs Football Queensland White W 8-0 (Corry (2), Palombi (2), Berkeley (2), Thornton, S. De Marco)
R3 vs Football NSW Thunder W 2-1 (Palywoda, N. De Marco)
R4 vs Football West W 11-0 (Palombi (4), Berkeley (2), Palywoda (2), N. De Marco, S. De Marco, Wilson)
R5 vs Football Victoria White W 9-1 (Berkeley (2), Palywoda (2), Corry, N. De Marco, S. De Marco, Robertson, Chao)
QF vs Northern NSW Football W 6-0 (Berkeley (3), Palombi, Palywoda, Chao)
SF vs Football West W 10-0 (Palombi (4), Corry, Palywoda, Berkeley, N. De Marco, Robertson, Chao)
GF vs Football NSW Thunder W 1-0 (S. De Marco)
SCORERS
11 Brittany PALOMBI
10 Jamie BERKELEY
7 Sofia PALYWODA
4 Anneke CORRY, Natalie DE MARCO, Stella DE MARCO
3 Sharon CHAO
2 Ayla ROBERTSON
1 Michaela THORNTON, Dianne WILSON
OPEN WOMEN – GOLD
R1 vs BYE
R2 vs Football Queensland Maroon L 0-8
R3 vs Football Victoria Navy L 1-5 (Yuen)
R4 vs Northern NSW Football L 0-3
R5 vs Football NSW Lightning L 1-4 (Yuen)
SCORERS
2 Reilly YUEN