Wednesday, February 12, 2025

2025 Lakoseljac Cup and State-wide Cup draws, and cup final referees

The draw for the opening Round of 32 and Round of 16 the 2025 Lakoseljac Cup was conducted by Football Tasmania today.

The preliminary round (Knock-out Round)), involving just three games, will be played on the weekend of 7-10 March 2025.

The three games are (home team first):

Hobart United v Taroona

New Town White Eagles v Somerset Sharks

Burnie United v Olympia Warriors

Byes have been awarded in this round to Barnstoneworth United, Metro, Hobart City and University.

The Round of 16 draw, to be played on the weekend of 28-30 March, is:

Metro v Clarence Zebras

New Town White Eagles or Somerset Sharks v Hobart United or Taroona

South Hobart v Barnstoneworth United

Launceston United v Kingborough Lions United

Glenorchy Knights v Devonport Strikers

University v Launceston City

South East United v Hobart City

Riverside Olympic v Burnie United or Olympia Warriors

 

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The draw for the Women’s State-wide Cup to be played on the weekend of 28-30 March is:

Launceston United v Kingborough Lions United

Ulverstone v South Hobart

Olympia Warriors v Devonport Strikers

Riverside Olympic v Taroona

Burnie United v Glenorchy Knights

Byes have been awarded to University, New Town White Eagles and Launceston City.

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The Men’s Under-21 Statewide Cup has just one game in the preliminary round and that is between Riverside Olympic and South East United.

Launceston United, Launceston City, Kingborough Lions United, Devonport Strikers, Glenorchy Knights, Clarence Zebras and South Hobart all have byes.

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This is the 25th year of the Lakosejac Cup.

Football Tasmania asked me to look through my records and notebooks and see if I could find out who refereed the finals from 2000 to 2015 as they already had the referees’ names for the finals from 2016 to 2024.

This is what I came up with:

2000     Michael Sprod

2001     Paul Jones

2002     Kim Barker

2003     Owen Laing

2004     Craig Phillips

2005     Michael Sprod

2006     Kim Barker

2007     ?

2008     Kim Barker

2009     Kim Barker

2010     Kim Barker

2011     Kim Barker

2012     Kim Barker

2013     Brenton Kopra

2014     Brenton Kopra

2015     Kim Barker

If anyone can fill in the three gaps, I would be very grateful.

 

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is it just me or do less and less clubs nominate for these cups every year? No Rangers or Ulvie… very concerning

Anonymous said...

2013 - Brenton Kopra

Source - https://youtu.be/z7k0oeOXOWo?si=0e9Jd0MVDFNuXtds

Walter said...

Thanks so much. Really appreciate it.
One of the two missing finals was between Devonport and Launceston City. I suspect that final was played in the north and may have had northern referee. Only guessing, though. Can anyone clarify?

Walter said...

Chris McKenna has provided me with the 2002 Cup Final referee: Kim Barker
Chris should know as he scored in Devonport's 4-3 win over Launceston City.
Thanks so much, Chris. I greatly appreciate your input.

Anonymous said...

Kim Barker in 2007 for Somerset Sharks vs Launceston City @ Valley Road

Have game footage from Stefano which isn’t up on YouTube yet but will have to post someday when time permits!