The Tesco & Celeb FC Charity Football Tournament

Written by Rocoja

June 7, 2017

The first of what we all hope will be an annual Charity Football Tournament with Tesco, took place on Sunday June 4th at Sutton United FC. A 7 aside, 10 team, charity football tournament.

The fabulous day included 6 teams from Tesco South East UK stores.

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Tesco Teams

Along with a team of Lookalikes including Mrs Brown, Pamela Anderson, Harry Hill, Simon Cowell, Rory McIroy, Jamie Vardy, The Wealdstone Raider & Gordon Strachan.

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Team Lookalikes

A team of Celebrity Chefs including Andi Walker -MasterChef Professionals finalist 2015,  Josh Donachie – MasterChef Professionals Finalist 2015, James Villiers – MasterChef Professionals 2016 Semi-Finalist, Mark Stinchcombe -MasterChef Professional Semi-Finalist, Wayne Sullivan – MasterChef Professionals 2016 Semi-Finalist  & Greg Lackey of MasterChef & Culinary Genius Finalist 2017.

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Team Celeb Chefs

2 Celeb FC teams including UK Garage music legends MC Kie & DJ Pied Piper, Big Brother Winner 2016 Jason Burrill & Big Brother 2014 Housemate Marlon Wallen, Rob Lamarr from Channel 5 SuperCasino, and TV presenters Michael KurnKiri Bloore .

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The Celeb FC Teammates

Everyone who took part was volunteering their time, not only to raise funds for the British Heart Foundation and Diabetes UK but also, to raise awareness of the work Celeb FC do around the UK and the great new Community Initiative from Tesco New Malden, supporting Surrey based small Charities.

The Tournament was split into 2 Groups;

Group 1 being 

New Malden Maulers, Blewisham, Beckys Bromley Boozers, Team Lookalikes & Celeb FC Gold Stars

Group 1 Fixtures Below

 

New Malden Maulers         2 – 3         Blewisham

Beckys Bromley Boozers   5 – 0        Team Lookalikes

New Malden Maulers         0 – 2        Celeb FC Gold Stars

Blewisham                            2 – 3        Beckys Bromley Boozers

Team Lookalikes                 0 – 4        Celeb FC Gold Stars

New Malden Maulers         1 – 3        Beckys Bromley Boozers

Blewisham                            5 – 1        Team Lookalikes

Celeb FC Gold Stars            1 – 1        Beckys Bromley Boozers

New Malden Maulers          4 – 0     Team Lookalikes

Blewisham                             0 – 1     Celeb FC Gold Stars

 

Group 2 was

The Misfits, Sutton Superstars, Woolwich Wanderers, Team Celeb Chefs & Celeb FC Allstars

Group 2 Fixtures Below

The Misfits                          3 – 1        Sutton Superstars

Woolwich Wanderers       2 – 1       Team Celeb Chefs

The Misfits                          0 – 3      Celeb FC Allstars

Sutton Superstars              0 – 3     Woolwich Wanderers

Team Celeb Chefs              0 – 2      Celeb FC Allstars

The Misfits                          0 – 2      Woolwich Wanderers

Sutton Superstars              5 – 0      Team Celeb Chefs

Celeb FC Allstars               1 – 0       Woolwich Wanderers

The Misfits                          1 – 7       Team Celeb Chefs

Sutton Superstars              0 – 1      Celeb FC Allstars

 

Which left the Knockouts between

Beckys Bromley Boozers v Celeb Chefs   3-0

Celeb FC All Stars v New Malden Maulers  2-0

Celeb FC Gold Stars v Sutton Superstars  2-1

Woolwich Wanderers v Blewisham  1-2

The last 2 Tesco stores in the knockout played valiantly, But just couldn’t hold off the Celeb FC teams and after a noble fight & penalties it came down to a Celeb FC final; Which was a very closely played match but the Celeb FC All Stars lifted the Winners Trophy.

 

 

Thanks go to the Sponsors of the event

HTC Van Rental – Team Lookalikes Kit

DGC Vehicle Rental – Team CelebChefs Kit

EV2 Sportswear – Celeb FC Gold Stars Kit

Creams – Celeb FC All Stars Kit

Tesco New Malden – Water

1v1 Footballs & Essex Driver TrainingCeleb FC branded Match Balls

Dan Eicke Photography – Official Event Sports Photographer

Rocoja Limited – All Media for the event including Social Media & Website

And thank you to the guys from Sutton United who officiated on the day..

Believe me it was not easy!

Special Thank you to Bev  at Tesco New Malden as without her vision & open mindedness to new ideas, Fundraising for the Community Initiative wouldn’t have taken this fun & exciting turn. Celeb FC are proud to be able to help.

If you would like to know more about Celeb FC, please email Teammum at     info@CelebFC.co.uk  or visit

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