Anchor Boy Football Skills

Teams

Teams shall consist of between four and seven Anchor Boys with one or more adult helpers who may not participate in games. If companies wish to enter more than seven boys they may enter multiple teams of between four and seven boys. If a company wishes to enter fewer boys, they may be made into a combined team with boys from another company. At a leader’s choice, a team of three may be entered as an independent team but may be playing matches against teams of four in the final section.

Skills Challenges

All skills challenges shall run for 3 minutes per game. Boys shall start and stop on the whistle with the score being the team total within the time. For all games boys shall run in a strict rotation, so no boy shall ever have more than 1 turn more than any other boy.

 1.          Speed

Cones 3m apart. Start behind first cone, run up to & tag second cone, back and tag next player. 1 point per completed run

2.          Dribbling straight line

Cones 3m apart. Dribble ball up to and round end cone then back and hand over. 1 point per completed run.

3.          Dribbling in & out

Large cones 3m apart, two low cones equally placed in between. Dribble in and out of cones (S shaped), around end cone and back in between cones then hand over to the next player. 1 point per completed run.

4.          Target shooting – near

Ball placed on a marker, 3m from a series of colour-coded cones in a target 1m wide. 3 points for hitting the centre cone, 2 for hitting adjacent cones, 1 for end cones. If multiple cones hit, lowest scoring cone counted.

5.          Target shooting – distance

Ball placed on a marker, 6m from a series of colour-coded cones in a target 1.5m wide. 3 points for hitting the centre cones, 2 for hitting adjacent cones, 1 for end cones. If multiple cones hit, lowest scoring cone counted.

6.          Target shooting – moving ball.

As above but with a leader rolling in the ball from 1.5m to one side. Boy must play ball from inside a 1m wide window around target from above.

7.       Point passing

First two players lined up 2m apart. First boy must pass ball to second who must return the ball. When 10 passes have been completed (total, not pass and return), first boy shall drop out, second take his place and next boy become the second. Point per completed pass.

8.          Throw-Ins

Boy to line up behind marker and throw a ball with both hands from behind their head with both feet staying on the ground.  Target set up as per near target shooting above, points awarded no matter how ball hits cone as long as hasn’t hit a wall or other person between throw and cone.

After completion of all other games
Matches
4 players per team, no goal keepers or areas, no handling of the ball by any players, rebounding of ball of walls permitted, ball shall not be played above head height of the tallest boy playing – if goes above, indirect free kick awarded against team who played ball (same for other offences as judged by referee). If the ball goes dead play shall be restarted by a drop-ball between 1 player from each team, ball not to be played before it hits the ground.

1 point per goal scored (to a maximum of 4 points) plus 2 bonus points for winning game. 4 minutes one way, games restarted after goal by drop ball in centre of field as above.

It is not anticipated that a full league will be played, merely as many games as can be fitted into the time while giving each team an equal number of games.  Games to be played decided by draw.

Scoring

10 points shall be awarded for the highest score at the end of the competition in each individual game, then 8 for second, 6 for third, 5 for fourth down to 1 for eight. These scores shall then be added up to determine the winner. In the event of a tie, the team with the most higher places shall be given the position. If a position is still tied, raw points scored from all events shall be totalled and the higher score given the position.