Leisure Leagues – Europe's largest organisers of small-sided football, are to launch a brand new six-a-side league in South Edinburgh.
The league will take place at the Gracemount Leisure Centre in Edinburgh, and as the organisers are celebrating their 30th anniversary in 2008, they are waiving the usual £25 joining fee, and all new teams will even receive a free team kit.

Matches will be played on Sunday each week between 2.30pm and 5.30pm, and both the winners and runners up will receive gold or silver trophies for each individual player. In addition to this, there will be awards for Player of The Season as well as a magnum of champagne for the winning team.

Leisure Leagues general manager Chris Rowntree commented:

"We run leagues right across the country and although most of the teams come from local amateur clubs, the majority of our teams are simply made up of work colleagues, pub teams, or groups of friends. This means that the standard can be very varied but we will be providing different divisions for different standards so everybody is given the opportunity to play a competitive game of football once a week with the chance of winning prizes.

"There has been a lot of interest already for the new league and I would urge any teams that are thinking about entering to do so as soon as possible as places will be very limited."

Chris added. "We already run successful leagues throughout the UK and are certain that the league in Edinburgh will be just as popular as the others that are already running."

As well as the free entry and kit, all matches are refereed by a UKIFF qualified official and all equipment will be provided.

Chris said: "We take care of everything. All people need to do is turn up and pay the match fee."

The only cost for teams is the match fee per team per week.

Anyone who wants to register a team for Edinburgh – or wants more information on any other leagues – can call 0845 230 2340 or register online at www.leisureleagues.net