Futsal League: Round of 16 tonight

Manama : Hamad Town, Jurdab, Safra and South Sehla Youth Centre teams qualified for the Round of 16 after the completion of their third round preliminary Group 5 and Group 6 matches in the Fourth Khalid bin Hamad Youth Centres Futsal League and the First for People with Disabilities at the Riffa Sports Club Hall.

In Group 5 action, Hamad Town crushed Muharraq 8-0 with two goals apiece from Abdulrahman Adel, Ghanem Jamil Alhamad and Ebrahim Mohamed, with one each from Khalid Yasir and Mohammed Ali Juma, while Muharraq team were eliminated.

In the second match, Jurdab finished beat East Riffa 6-1 with goals from Saed Fardan (2), Kameel Abdulnabi (2), Mahmoud Madan and Aqeel Abdul Hussain with the lone goal for East Riffa by Ahmed Al Jalahama as the latter bow out of the league. 

Group 6 action saw Safra defeat South Sehla 7-3 with goals from Nawaz Abdulsatar (3), Ahmed Saleh (2) goals, Abdullah Saleh, Abdullah Mohammed and for South Sehla a hat-trick from Alawi Sayed Moosa.

Despite South Sehla’s defeat they advanced to the knockout stage with Safra.

In the other match, Naim-Sulta beat Jidhafs 5-4 thanks to goals by Ahmed Al Nauimi (3), Bader Al Mulla and Mohammed Al Nauimi and for Jidhafs by Sayed Hassan Al Qassab (2), Sadiq Al Ashoori and Mohammed Al Hadad.

The Round of 16 knockout gets underway tonight and concludes on Saturday, followed by the quarter finals on August 28 and 29, the semi-finals August 31 and the third place and final match on September 3.

Meanwhile, the League gets underway today with three Group 1 matches featuring Harakia Society against The Friendship Society For the Blind at 5pm followed by The Friendship Society For the Blind against Bahrain Deaf Society at 6pm and Harakia Society against Bahrain Deaf Society at 7pm.

Group 2 is played tomorrow with the Deaf, Special Education and the Hearing Impaired teams’ in the fray. After the preliminaries, the top two in each group qualify for the semi finals.