Sun Div.1 U-19’s
Leixlip Utd. 1-0 Donacarney
Fantastic battle today to win the league! Delighted for the players and they fully deserved the win today.
Message from our ref today..
Hi Justin mick lynch here referee from today just want to say a massive congratulations on winning the league title. It was a pleasure to referee the game and congratulations to both teams today for the respect shown to each other and to the officials. Tell the lads they are a credit to yourself and all the football community in Leixlip. It made my job easier and I really enjoyed the game.
Nilfisk cup final
U16P1 side beat Stella Maris 3-0 in the Nilfix cup final today. Josh Flood scored 2 and Adam Rock scored 1. That completes a league and Cup double for us.
Under 18 Redmond Cup final
Ballymun 3 v 1 Leixlip.
Gutted! It wasn't meant to be today. Truth be told, we were poor in the 1st half. The lads were tentative and conceded a soft early goal. We grew into the game but conceded a second goal, with our keeper spilling a shot presenting a tab in for Ballymun. 2 down at HT. We played much better in the second half, had a perfectly good goal not given (the ball was a couple of feet over the line). Ballymun scored a 3rd against the run of play and Sean Slaterry responded for us to reduce the deficit. We pushed hard but could not reduce the arrears and in the end ran out of time. Still it was a good season, runners up in the league and Cup both to Ballymun who went the whole season undefeated. The lads can be proud of what they achieved and the good job they did in representing the club and community. This team was our 3rd Saturday team when formed, at under 8, they went on to become our only team, stuck together and played about 300 games over the last 11 years. You could see they were all gutted and drained and while it was disappointing to lose, the 11 year journey has been great and the lads got to make a lot of friends and learn a whole load about winning and losing, life skills in their own right. Thanks to Rodney Whelan for putting up with me in the very early years! While we won a few leagues at Under 12 and 13, the real success in schoolboy football is getting a team through from 8s to 18s. The journey and the memories will stay with the lads and I for a long time.
MGL U16 Shield QF - Leixlip 7 Skerries 0
Great performance from the girls today, in control from the off, with 2 goals from Jae Howard, 1 from Sophie O'Connor, a second half hat trick from Maryam Abdul and Isabelle Braescu on the scoresheet too. Team played really well throughout and sees us through to our first semi-final in the season-ending trophy.
LSL U20 league result:
Leixlip 6-0 Castleknock
A league game at last after 5 walkovers!
Dominated the game and could have scored a lot more.
Happy with the win.
A great weekend for the club with the 16s winning the Cup, the under 19s winning their league. Our former player Luke Kehir scored a cracker of a free kick for the Irish under 16s in their game against Sweden last week. Sean Mackey also played in the game.
