Barony Youth Football Festival

As the dust settles on another incredible Barony Football Festival, we wanted to take a moment to say a sincere and heartfelt thank you to everyone who played a part in making this year’s football festival such a fantastic success 💙

This year saw us host our biggest event to date since starting just four years ago! We welcomed close to 3 thousand kids playing football with their respective clubs, hosted 625 games of football across Fun 4s to 11-asides - insane numbers when you see it written down.

To every team that travelled near and far to take part – thank you. Your commitment, sportsmanship, passion, and enthusiasm are what make this festival so special. Every player, coach, and supporter helped create an unforgettable atmosphere, and we hope you enjoyed the weekend as much as we did 🎉

A huge thank you goes to all of our stallholders, food vendors, inflatables and local businesses. A mention to Stewart & the team at Donsport, who provided all of our medals & trophies. All of the support added so much to the festival experience, providing great food, refreshments, entertainment and services that everyone could enjoy throughout the event. Thank you also to our referees, to our young referees in our 9-aside event who did an amazing job in what is not an easy task.

A massive thanks for all the help from Synergy and Jamie Campbell for helping us move goals, and to Bret and New Cumnock for allowing us to use their ride-on lawnmowers, making an incredibly challenging job just that wee bit easier. Also to our first aid teams, photographers, sponsors, campus staff, and everyone who worked tirelessly behind the scenes. So much effort goes into planning an event of this size, and every single contribution played an important role in making the festival run as smoothly as it did. We are incredibly grateful to you all for being a part of our festival 🙏🏼

To our amazing volunteers – quite simply, this event would not happen without you. Your dedication and hard work are what have shaped our event into what it has become in such a short period of time.

To the parents, families, friends, and supporters, encouraging the players and creating such a positive atmosphere throughout the three weekends, thank you for your support. Grassroots football thrives because of communities like ours, and your encouragement means everything to the young people taking part 🥰

Most importantly, thank you to every child who stepped onto the pitch. Your smiles, determination, teamwork, and love of the game are exactly what the Barony Football Festival is all about. Watching so many young players enjoying football in the right spirit is what makes all the months of planning worthwhile ⚽️🥅

A massive thank you to every single person who donated towards our Ayrshire East Foodbank, or who donated toys and books for our Night Before Christmas Campaign. Your kindness, generosity and support will make a real difference. Because of your donations, children and families who may otherwise have gone without will have food on the table and, most importantly, some special gifts to open on Christmas morning 🎁

We’d also like to give a special mention to the other charities and organisations that we are proud to support in whatever way we can:

❤️ Memories Are Better Than Dreams
💙 Cumnock Juniors Community Enterprise
💚 Release
💛 Netherthird Community Trust

These organisations mean so much to us and are very close to our hearts. The work they do within our communities is incredible, and we are proud to be able to support them whenever we can. From everyone involved, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Your generosity helps us make a difference where it matters most. Together, we can make a difference!!!

From everyone involved in organising the Barony Football Festival, one last massive thank you for helping create another memorable year full of football, friendship, community spirit, and lasting memories. We are incredibly proud of what we’ve achieved together and look forward to future events where we hope to keep on creating memorable days of football for all of the kids & their teams ⚽️

As you will have read we are more than just a football festival. ⚽️

We support many charities during our events and donate any small surpluses back into the community.

This week we donated to Netherthird Community Development Group to help support their summer program. These funds helped fund a DJ today. All the kids were having a great time in the sunshine. 🕺💃

🏆 Last but certainly not least… 🏆

A massive well done to all of our 2015s who brought the Barony Football Festival to a fantastic close on Sunday afternoon! ⚽👏

It was great to see so many young players enjoying their football, making new memories and representing their clubs with pride. Thank you to everyone who played their part in another fantastic day.

A special congratulations to our award winners:

🧤 Goalkeeper Award
🏅 Finley Pinnel – Crosshouse
🏅 George – Whitletts

⭐ Player of the Festival
🏅 Rory Waddle – Irvine Meadow
🏅 Leo Fulton – Shortlees

🤝 Fair Play Award
🏅 Ardeer Thistle

Congratulations to all of our winners, and well done to every team that took part. We hope to see you all again next year! ⚽

📸 If you have any additional photos of your team or players from the festival, we’d love to see them! Feel free to share them in the comments below so everyone can enjoy the memories. 💙

🌟 Barony Football Festival – U10 & U12 Girls Festival 🌟

A massive well done to every single girl who took part in yesterday’s festival! 👏⚽

It is always a pleasure to host the girls, and what a fantastic turnout it was with 270 girls enjoying a brilliant day of football. The standard of play, teamwork, sportsmanship and smiles on display made for another memorable festival.

Congratulations to our award winners:

🏆 U10 Girls
🥅 Best Goalkeeper: Lucy Conway – Ardeer Thistle
⭐ Top Player: Lucy McClure – Blantyre Soccer Academy
🤝 Fair Play Award: Morton

🏆 U12 Girls
🥅 Best Goalkeeper: Lilly McKenna – Stewarton Annick
⭐ Top Player: Nadine McTaggart – TASS
🤝 Fair Play Award: Drumchapel United

Days like these show exactly what grassroots football is all about—giving girls the opportunity to play, develop, make new friends and create lasting memories. Thank you to everyone who played their part in making the festival such a special occasion. We’re proud to be part of helping the girls’ game continue to grow. 💙⚽

🏆 2016s Festival Award Winners 🏆

Another fantastic age group wrapped up at the Barony Football Festival, with plenty of great football, teamwork and sportsmanship on show this morning. ⚽👏

A huge congratulations to our award winners:

💙Fair Play Award
🏅 Largs Colts

🧤 Goalkeepers of the Festival
⭐ Ethan Bird (Shortlees)
⭐ Henry Chalmers (Stewarton)

⚽️ Players of the Festival
⭐ Callum Bartley (Strathaven Dynamo)
⭐ Frankie Docherty (1st Touch)

Well done to all of our winners and to every player, coach, volunteer and supporter who helped make the day such a success. We hope everyone had a brilliant time and we look forward to welcoming you back to Barony Football Festival again soon! 💙⚽

⚽ MATCH BALL SPONSOR – Girls U12s⚽

👟LACE LIFT 👟

We would like to say a huge thank you to Lace lift for generously sponsoring a match ball for our Girls under 12s Football Festival.

Support from local businesses helps make events like this possible and creates fantastic opportunities for our young players to enjoy the game they love.

We are delighted to have Girls under 12s involved in this year’s festival and truly appreciate their contribution.

Thank you for your support, and we look forward to a great day of football! 👏⚽

⚽ MATCH BALL SPONSOR – 2015s ⚽

🏠SHIRE HOUSING ASSOCIATION 🏠

We would like to say a huge thank you to Shire Housing Association Limited for generously sponsoring a match ball for our 2015 Football Festival.

Support from local businesses helps make events like this possible and creates fantastic opportunities for our young players to enjoy the game they love.

We are delighted to have Shire Housing Association involved in this year’s festival and truly appreciate their contribution.

Thank you for your support, and we look forward to a great day of football! 👏⚽

⚽ MATCH BALL SPONSOR – Girls U10s ⚽

🩷TAMMYS TANS🩷

We would like to say a huge thank you to Tammys Tans for generously sponsoring a match ball for our girls under 10s Football Festival.

Support from local businesses helps make events like this possible and creates fantastic opportunities for our young players to enjoy the game they love.

We are delighted to have Tammys Tans involved in this year’s festival and truly appreciate their contribution.

Thank you for your support, and we look forward to a great day of football! 👏⚽

What an incredible afternoon yesterday at the Barony Football Festival for our 2017 age group! ⚽👏

Almost 330 young footballers took to the pitches in the afternoon, creating an amazing atmosphere from start to finish. It was fantastic to see so many players enjoying their football, with brilliant support from coaches, families and everyone who came along to cheer them on.

🏆 Fair Play Award – Strathaven Dynamo

⭐ Players of the Festival
• Brody Dennison (Dynamo Futsal)
• Noah Law (Troon Thistle)

🧤 Goalkeepers of the Festival
• Angus (EDFC)
• Tyler Aitken (KFA)

Congratulations to all of our award winners and well done to every single player who represented their club with enthusiasm, teamwork and great sportsmanship 🏅

Come along today and enjoy another fantastic day of football! It’s also your last chance to enjoy the inflatables, so don’t miss out. We can’t wait to see everyone there 😃!