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Eight flawless teams will get the chance to prove their mettle when it counts most, as the Republic Bank National Youth Football League (RBNYFL) enters the knockout stage with quarterfinal action in the Boys’ Under-20, Under-17 and Under-14 divisions on the weekend after Easter.
The Girls Under-17 category will use a final four format to determine winners in the Trinidad and Tobago zones before a national final, while there will be straight finals between first and second place finishers in the Tobago Boys Under-14, Under-17 and Under-20 categories.
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Over the weekend, the last knockout qualifiers were decided in the Central Zone. In the Under-14 division, T&T Maestros defeated Cooper’s Coaching Academy 3-0 in a rescheduled fixture, which saw the former team edge FC Tigers for a quarterfinal place.
Emanuel Williams and Kairee Clement both scored inside of the first 10 minutes for Maestros before Jomani Serrette rounded off the score summary with a second half item against Cooper’s.
Maestros’ reward is a quarterfinal clash with South Zone champions Point Fortin Youth Football Academy on Saturday 26 April. The U-14 quarterfinal round will be hosted at El Dorado West Secondary.
The Trinidad Under-14 KO bracket, based on group form, is as follows:
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(1) Premier SC vs (8) Creek SCC; (4) Beatnix SC vs (6) City FC;
(2) Point Fortin YFA vs (7) T&T Maestros; (3) Pro Series vs (5) Cox Coaching School.
In fact, Cox Coaching School have a higher weighting than City FC and would have expected to face Beatnix Sports Club. But the matchups, done by tournament organisers TTGameplan, are calibrated to ensure that teams cannot play an opponent from the same zone at the quarterfinal stage.
As such, sixth seed City FC swapped places with Cox CS to avoid a quarterfinal clash against third seed Pro Series.
Premier Sports Club and Point Fortin YFA both have 100 percent records from the group stage in the Central and South zones respectively.
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In the Under-17 Division, East champs San Juan Jabloteh are the only Trinidad team with a 100 percent record. Jabloteh face Point Fortin YFA in their quarterfinal contest on Sunday 27 April at the St Augustine Secondary school ground, which will host the U-17 quarterfinal round.
The Trinidad U-17 bracket, based on group stage form, is:
(1) San Juan Jabloteh vs (8) Point Fortin YFA; (4) Cox Coaching School vs (5) FC Ginga;
(2) Cardinals FA vs (7) Maloney RFA; (3) Beatnix SC vs (6) Trendsetter Hawks.
Kamillionare FC are the last qualifier for the Trinidad U-20 quarterfinal round, after they defeated Crown Trace FC by default on Sunday to leapfrog the latter team into second place.
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Kamillionare now face North Zone winners Pro Series in the final eight.
Jabloteh are expected to be there as well, despite fielding an overaged player—Kadeem Maloney aka Kadeem Mendoza—in at least two matches that the club won.
In the absence of a protest by third place club FC Ginga, Wired868 understands that TTGameplan were sufficiently sympathetic to Jabloteh, who were deemed to be innocent of their player’s alleged deception.
Maloney played in the RBNYFL U-20 competition in 2023 for Eastern Jaguars, under the name of Kadeem Mendoza.
He was listed as 18 in 2025 and 19 in 2023–while a third document claims that he is 23.
Jabloteh finished as East Zone runners up and the sixth seed in the Under-20 rankings, which pitted them against East winners QPCC FC.
In keeping with tournament policy to avoid teams from the same zones facing each other in the quarterfinals, Jabloteh were swapped with fifth seed: City FC.
As a result, the Trinidad U-20 quarterfinal stage now features an intriguing clash between QPCC and City—the latter formerly operating as the QPCC Academy before deciding to go their own way in 2024.
Hadeed is one of several City players who have moved to QPCC FC for the 2025 season.
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Several current QPCC players, such as Micah Nelson, Seth Hadeed, and Yohance Atherton, lifted silverware with City last season.
The Trinidad U-20 quarterfinals will be held at the Arima Velodrome on Saturday 26 April and the bracket is as follows:
(1) Pro Series vs (8) Kamillionare FC; (4) Club Sando vs (6) San Juan Jabloteh;
(2) Premier SC vs (7) Police FC; (3) QPCC FC vs (5) City FC.
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The Pro Series and Premier Under-20 teams both won all seven of their outings so far this season.
The remaining teams with 100 percent records at the Pro Series Girls Under-17 Team and the Ball Blasters Youth Academy Under-14 and Under-17 teams.
The RBNYFL Tobago boys champions will be decided by a straight final between the first and second placed teams on a day to be determined in May.
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In the Tobago U-14 Division, Ball Blasters and St Clair Coaching School will battle for the title, while Ball Blasters and Georgia FC will contest the Tobago U-17 crown.
In the Tobago U-20 final, group winners Stokely Vale FC will try to hold off 2024 national finalists, Eagles FC, for zonal honours.
The Trinidad Girls U-17 final four will also be staged on a date to be determined in May. And there is a late change there too as the withdrawal of Crown Trace FC from the competition opened up a spot for fifth-placed AIA Eagles.
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Eagles will face Pro Series in the semifinals with second place Trendsetter Hawks also tackling third place Cox Coaching School for a spot in the Trinidad final.
In Tobago, group winners Tobago Chicas face fourth-placed Combined Ballerz and second place Jewels Sports Club are pitted against third place Black Panthers Women Sports Club in the semifinal round.
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