The best of urban and rural schoolboy football will collide when the ISSA Champions Cup returns after a one-year hiatus, with eight teams set to battle for national supremacy in the knockout competition.

The tournament, which brings together the leading teams from the urban Walker Cup and rural Ben Francis Cup competitions, resumes this month with an intriguing quarter-final line-up that promises to deliver some compelling match-ups on Saturday, November 21 with three games.

Walker Cup champions Kingston College, Mona High, Jamaica College and the winner of the Wolmer’s Boys/Kingtson Technical playoff will represent the Corporate Area while Ben Francis champion Glenmuir High, Clarendon College, Denbigh High and Dinthill Technical are the rural teams.

KC (2017, 2019), JC (2014, 2022) and Glenmuir (2023, 2024) are two-time winner of the tournament that was started in 2014. Other winners are St George’s College (2015), Wolmer’s boys (2016), Cornwall College (2018) and Clarendon College (2021).

There was no competition in 2020 and 2025 because of Covid and Hurricane Melissa respectively.

Wolmer’s Boys and Kingston Technical will playoff on Thursday, November 12 and the winner will travel to Clarendon College in the opening quarter-final on Friday, November 20 starting at 3:00 pm.

The other three quarter-final matches will be played on Saturday, November 21, at two venues.

Mona High will take on Dinthill Technical at Stadium East at 3:00 pm, while KC will face Denbigh High at the same venue at 5:30 pm.

Glenmuir will entertain JC at their home ground at 3:00 pm.

The draw has ensured that the seeded teams — Glenmuir, Clarendon College, KC and Mona — will not meet in the quarter-final round, setting up the possibility of some heavyweight clashes in the semi-finals.

The return of the Champions Cup provides another opportunity for the leading schools from both competitions to measure themselves against each other and establish which programme currently holds the upper hand in Jamaican schoolboy football.

The semi-finals are scheduled for Saturday, November 28 and the final set for the National Stadium on December 5.