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Garvey Maceo kick off daCosta Cup against Foga Road
Maldon High’s Jaquan Dixon (left) plays the ball away from Green Pond High’s Garth-Dane Bromwell in their ISSA daCosta Cup Zone A, first-round game played at Green Pond last season. Green Pond won the game 2-1. Paul Reid
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BY PAUL A REID Observer writer reidp@jamaicaobserver.com  
September 6, 2025

Garvey Maceo kick off daCosta Cup against Foga Road

GARVEY Maceo High will start their quest for a first-ever, back-to-back ISSA daCosta Cup title when they take on Foga Road High in a Zone I game at Stadium East complex today at 2:30 pm.

The game will mark the official opening of the schoolboy football season, set to run through to the middle of December, and Garvey Maceo High who beat McGrath High on penalty kicks will be hoping for a fourth title after winning previously in 2007 and 2021.

Seventy-nine schools will contest the daCosta Cup competition, separated into 13 zones for the first round with at least three schools returning to the competition — Lewisville High, Petersfield High, and Bustamante High.

Another 27 games are set to be played today across the competition, with six former champions all kicking off their campaigns.

Cornwall College will host Green Pond High, in what has become a tricky fixture, and will be hoping to avenge the only loss they had in the first round last season.

Cornwall College topped Zone A and advanced as far as the third round, while Green Pond high were edged out for second place by Maldon High, on goal-difference, and will be hoping to get out of the first round for the first time since the 2019 season when they were a best-third-place team.

Herbert Morrison is in an extended rebuilding phase and will host Irwin High, also in Zone A, while Frome Technical visits Anchovy High in Zone B.

Rusea’s High, who last won the title in 2017, are away to Knockalva Technical against whom they scored five times in each game between the two teams last season.

Munro College promised much last year but came up short and will start their season away to BB Coke High, who they beat both times they met last season.

Also Maldon High, who are hoping to build on last season’s historic feat of advancing past the first round, start away to St James High who they beat two times last year.

Manning’s School, who have dominated Zone C the last three years, will be hoping for a fast start when they host Little London in Savanna La Mar, while Cedric Titus against Spot Valley could be a close contest.

 

Today’s games (3:30 pm start

 

Garvey Maceo High vs Foga Road High – 2:30 pm

Herbert Morrison vs Irwin High

St James High vs Maldon High

Cornwall College vs Green Pond High

Anchovy High vs Frome Tech

Knockalva Tech vs Rusea’s High

Green Island vs Cambridge High

Manning’s School vs Little London High

Black River High vs Lewisville High

Cedric Titus vs Spot Valley

Troy High vs Muschett High

Newell High vs Maggotty High

Lacovia High vs Sydney Pagon STEM

BB Coke High vs Munro College

Manchester High vs Belair High

deCarteret College vs May Day High

Alphansus Davis High vs Porus High

Holmwood Technical vs Christiana High

Knox College vs Mile Gully High – Kirkvine 3:30 pm

Alston High vs Bellefield High – Kirkvine 1:30 pm

McGrath High vs Charlemont High

Old Harbour High vs Tacius Golding High

York Castle High vs Discovery Bay High

Ocho Rios High vs Ferncourt High

Browns Town High vs Marcus Garvey Tech

St Mary High vs St Mary Technical

Port Antonio High vs Titchfield High

Iona High vs Horace Clarke High

Cornwall College’s Demarco Finnikin (second left) and Irwin High’s Nathaniel Foster (second right) battle for the ball during the Montego Bay United Invitational semi-final match at Montego Bay Sports Complex in St James on August 16, 2025. Cornwall won 2-1. File

Cornwall College’s Demarco Finnikin (second left) and Irwin High’s Nathaniel Foster (second right) battle for the ball during the Montego Bay United Invitational semi-final match at Montego Bay Sports Complex in St James on August 16, 2025. Cornwall won 2-1.  

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