Sizzling year-end season anticipated as Super 16 Draw completed

The best of the Elite League and the Regional Member Association teams will soon converge on the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) National Training Centre (NTC) at Providence, East Bank Demerara (EBD), for what will be an epic year-end tournament.

The GFF seized the opportunity to conduct the highly anticipated draw for this year’s Super 16 Cup competition at the recently concluded Ordinary Congress 2025.
The split, round-robin format saw this year’s top four Elite League Season Seven finishers, namely Slingerz Football Club (FC), Guyana Police Force FC, Guyana Defence Force FC and Western Tigers FC, being seeded to the quarterfinal round.
The draw commenced by placing those four teams in their respective groups, with Elite League Champions Slingerz FC drawn to Group A, Police FC to Group C, GDF FC to Group D and Western Tigers to Group B.
Thereafter, teams placing 5-8 in the recently concluded league were drawn from a separate pot into their individual groups. The draw resulted in Monedderlust FC proceeding to Group A, Den Amstel to Group B, Santos FC to Group C, and Ann’s Grove to Group D.
Ninth place finisher from the League, Fruta Conquerors FC were grouped with the other seven teams hailing from the Regional Member Associations in the third pot of last Saturday’s draw. Those teams were then drawn to complete the three-team groups who will be battling for the chance to take on the corresponding Elite League top-four teams in the quarter-finals.
As such, the Rupununi Football Association (FA)’s Strikers FC and the East Coast Demerara FA’s Buxton Stars were drawn to Group A. Georgetown FA’s Beacon FC and West Demerara FA’s Zeelugt Defenders FC found themselves in Group B. Group C was completed by Georgetown FA’s Camptown FC and the Elite League’s Fruta Conquerors, while East Coast Demerara FA’s Mahaica Determinators and WDFA’s Uitvlugt Warriors FC put a cap on Group D.
Prior to the draw, it was determined that the winners of Group A will take on the winner of Group C at the semi-final round, while the winners of Groups B and D will do battle.
The Super 16 action will kick off this Saturday, December 6, at the NTC, which will stand as hosts for the entire tournament. The competition will conclude in what is expected to be a highly exhilarating final on the iconic date of January 1.
The teams will be vying for a $2,000,000 grand prize, while the second-place finishers will have to settle for $1,000,000. Third and fourth place will pocket $750,000 and $500,000, respectively.
Fixtures for this year’s Super 16 Cup tournament are set to be made available on Thursday, December 4, ahead of Saturday’s anticipated kick-off.