General News
1 September, 2023
Football league heads into semi-finals across FNQ
THE 2023 Football Queensland Far North Queensland Premier league action heats up this weekend as the competitions move into semi-final mode.
The major semi-finals and elimination semi-finals will be held on Friday night for the women’s competition, while the men’s will be played on Saturday and Sunday.
In the QPL women’s competition, premiers Leichhardt Lions host the second-placed Edge Hill Tigers, at 7pm Saturday night at White Rock, while further south at Walker Road, the Southside Comets host the Stratford Dolphins in the elimination semi-final between third and fourth.
The Lions head into the match favourites having only lost one game all year, but that one lost was against the Tigers only a few rounds back and will be fresh in the back of the mind of Lions coach Andrew Gurrera.
In the men’s QPL competition, premiers Edge Hill Tigers host the Mareeba Bulls on Saturday night at 7pm at Tiger Park, while on Sunday the third-placed Leichhardt Lion host the fourth-placed Innisfail Cutters.
Similar to the women’s QPL, in the men’s, Edge Hill have only lost one game all season and that was also against the Bulls who they host this weekend, while the Cutters are the Lions bogey side, 4-4 the last time these sides met only a couple weeks back and it won’t be lost to the Lions.
