The draw for this year’s Scottish Walking Football Festival has taken place live on twitter this afternoon.
Hearts will field two teams, Hearts 56 and Hearts 98 named after Scottish Cup winning teams and Midlothian will also take part.
The event will take place at Glasgow Green on Saturday 24th June after having been held at Ainslie Park for the past two years.
The first tournament which was organised by Age Scotland and Paths for All was won by Hibernian and last year’s event was won by Montrose.
32 teams will take part this year and the winners will represent Scotland in a Home International Tournament later this year.
Matt Ramsay, Football Participation Officer said: ” On behalf of Glasgow Sport, we are delighted to be hosting this year’s Scottish Walking Football Festival and it’s terrific to have a record amount of teams so widespread across the nation.
“We have been looking forward to this event for some time now and greatly thank ‘Paths for All’ for their support, not just to the Festival but Walking Football in Scotland as a whole.
“As previous, the winners of this Festival will represent Scotland at this year’s UK Walking Football Championships.
“Hopefully everyone will enjoy the festival and most importantly however, it’s not about the winning but more a celebration of the game we all love.”
The full draw is as follows:
John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
