After three days of competition, the 2024 Yangzhou "Mayor's Cup" Youth Campus Football Competition (Middle School Group) ended successfully in Jiangdu District. As a result, the team from Baoying County, the famous "hometown of football" in Jiangsu Province, won the two championships of the women's team. The teams of the host Jiangdu District and Shizhi divided the two championships in the men's division. It is worth mentioning that the final of the "Mayor's Cup" was also broadcast live for the first time, attracting nearly 10,000 people to watch it online at the same time.
The 2024 Yangzhou "Mayor's Cup" Youth Campus Football Match is jointly sponsored by Yangzhou Municipal Education Bureau, Yangzhou Municipal Sports Bureau and Yangzhou Youth Campus Football Office. The competition is divided into two categories: primary school group and secondary school group. The competition of the municipal middle school group held in Jiangdu District was jointly organized by the Jiangdu District Education Bureau, the Jiangdu District Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau, and the Jiangdu District School Football Office.
The competition in the secondary school group is divided into five groups: junior high school boys' group, junior high school girls' group, high school boys' group, high school girls' group and vocational education men's group. As a result, in the junior high school women's group and the high school women's football group, the two women's football teams from Baoying County, the birthplace of Jiangsu women's football team and the famous "hometown of football" in our province, Baonan School team and Baoying County Anyi Senior High School team, both won 4 games and won the championship of these two groups. The team of Gaoyou Foreign Chinese School and Yangzhou Wenjin Middle School won the second and third places in the junior high school women's group, while the Yizheng No. 2 Middle School team and the Hanjiang Middle School team won the second and third places in the high school women's football group.
The junior high school boys' and high school boys' competitions are conducted in a round-robin group and then cross-elimination system. As a result, in the final of the junior high school men's football group, the team of Shao Bozhen Middle School in Jiangdu District, which undertook the task of preparing for the Yangzhou Provincial Games, defeated the team of Zhuziqing Middle School of the city 4-1 and successfully defended the title. In the final of the high school boys' group, the Xinhua Middle School team defeated the Hanjiang Middle School team 2-1 and won the championship.
In addition, in the competition of the vocational education group, Baoying Secondary Vocational School won the championship.
In this competition, the organizing committee of the competition for the first time broadcast the finals of the junior high school men's group through the WeChat video public account of "Yangzhou Education Online", and invited professional commentators to explain the competition, attracting nearly 10,000 viewers to watch online, and the number of likes exceeded 26,000. "It is an attempt to broadcast the finals of this competition, and we will also broadcast more Sunshine Sports League matches in the future. The relevant person in charge of the Sports and Health Art Department of the Yangzhou Municipal Education Bureau said.
Source: Yangzhou release