Entries by Garreth Breen

DDSL Season 2024 – 2025 Expression of Interest

Phase 1 Expression of Interest for season 2024 – 2025 The PHASE 1 ONLINE EXPRESSION OF INTEREST PROCESS will remain live until 5PM on Friday May 10th. Any Club who has not completed in this window will be placed on a waiting list by the League. Any matter relating to the process or inability to […]

FAI Pathways Plan Meeting

Dear Club Chairperson /Secretary, In relation to the FAI Pathways Plan the DDSL has recently engaged with the FAI to ensure that all clubs and stakeholders in the DDSL are consulted and given the opportunity to provide their views as sought by the FAI. We support any plan that improves our game and the needs […]

Football for All World Cup

Thank you to all who attended a hugely successful day Guests on the day: Mayor Alan Edge SDCC Minister Jack Chambers MEP Barry Andrews Brilliant support from our clubs Special mention to St James Swift who travelled from Belfast Up to 180 players had a terrific day …cold weather but Soup/Sandwiches warmed them up after […]

Childline Partnership Launch

Kicking off a winning collaboration between Childline, DDSL and the beautiful game How Childline and DDSL are teaming up to help ensure there’s always someone to listen when a child needs to talk. Childline by ISPCC and the Dublin District Soccer League (DDSL) are two organisations, united by a common cause – our wish to […]

Dublin’s Q102 Announces Partnership with Dublin & District Schoolboys/girls League

Introducing Feel Good Football Dublin entertainment & audio brand, Q102, home of Ryan Tubridy, announced an exciting & exclusive partnership called Feel Good Football today with the leading youth football development league in Dublin, the DDSL. This collaboration marks a significant partnership within the grassroots football community, as two iconic Dublin brands join forces to […]

Referee Courses

Referee Course ⚽️ Please see below the new upcoming ‘Referee Courses’ to be run by the FAI. As you are aware, we are still very short of Referees & it would be great if you can forward to as many people/coaches/players as possible to ensure we have more Refs to call on. Please forward the […]

Easter Weekend Update

Please note the following fixtures are due to be played:   St Patrick’s Weekend: There will be NO SSG Fixtures i.e. u7’s to u11’s Boys/Girls for either Sat/Sun 16th/17th March There will be fixtures for u12’s to u18’s Boys/Girls for both Sat/Sun 16th/17thMarch Any teams who wish to apply for their fixture to be off […]

Football Pathways – FAI

As part of the FAI’s four year strategy from 2022-2025, Nurturing Football Pathways for All is one of our key strategic pillars and to this end, we embarked on a consultation process from May 2023 to January 2024, with the goal of developing a new Football Pathways Plan for the whole game of football in […]

Respect Our Game

The DDSL Supports the FAI for the Respect our Game initiative for this weekend 2nd – 4th of February. We ask that you share this post around in order to promote this amongst family and friends for this weekend.🤝 The FAI are planning a big weekend of action for the Respect our Game initiative which […]

Seminar Reminder 18th Jan

U7/U8/U9 Boys/Girls Seminar: As you are aware, we organise an update session for the above Boys/Girls Divisions early in the 2nd half of the season. This is to allow the new u7’s Divisions/managers/coaches & u8/9 managers/coaches to attend a session covering the ‘Rules/Guidelines for the 5v5; the Different Divisions; Code of Conduct for Manager/coaches/parents & […]