Entries by Garreth Breen

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 & […]

DDSL Education Update

UPCOMING REFEREE COURSES: 🔗Online Referee Beginners Course – 15th/16th January 2024 (7-10pm) – FULL 🔗Online Referee Beginners Course – 30th/31st January 2024 (7-10pm) –17PLACES LEFT 🔗Online Referee Beginners Course – 26th/27th February 2024 (7-10pm) – 28PLACES LEFT   U7/U8/U9 Boys/Girls Seminar: As you are aware, we organise an update session for the above Boys/Girls Divisions […]

Referee Courses

Please see below the new upcoming ‘Referee Courses’ to be run by the FAI. As you are aware, we are 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 ‘Links’ below & let […]

Happy New Year

All at the DDSL wish you all a Very Happy New Year We look forward to more brilliant football from all the teams coaches & players in 2024