Fiestas

Once the regular season is over, there are plenty of summer tournaments throughout May, June and July that you can enter if you want. Entry into these will cost you (usually between £30 and £40 per team) and the club doesn't pay for these - you are expected to collect money from your team's parents to cover the cost. Entering them is entirely optional, but they can be a lot of fun. Entry forms tend to be released between January and February for most clubs and we will forward the e-mails we receive to all our managers so you won't miss out if you don't receive them direct.

Below is a summary of some of the local tournaments and what you can generally expect from them (although they do change year on year).

Note that at most tournaments U7s (and U8s at a lot) don't play competitive matches with knockout stages - they play a friendly competition where everyone gets a participation medal.

* For those who are playing in competitive age groups, I've starred the more local tournaments we'd recommend if you're not one of the stronger teams (these have secondary, plate competitions which means more teams have a chance of qualifying usually).