{"id":10919,"date":"2025-07-21T13:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/10919\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:07:10","slug":"football-festival-teams-blown-away-by-welcome-organisers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/10919\/","title":{"rendered":"Football festival teams ‘blown away’ by welcome, organisers say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fans and teams who travelled to the Isle of Man for a summer festival of football were “blown away” by the welcome they received, organisers have said.<\/p>\n

The event<\/a> saw four clubs from across the English football pyramid, including hosts FC Isle of Man, face off at the island’s national stadium, The Bowl, in Douglas.<\/p>\n

League Two side Fleetwood Town won the trophy after a penalty shootout victory over Radcli\ufb00e Borough, while the home side finished fourth after losing 3-1 to Altrincham FC in the third place play off.<\/p>\n

In its second year, Lee Dixon from FC Isle of Man said more than 2,000 spectators watched the four “incredibly competitive” matches played across the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans and teams who travelled to the Isle of Man for a summer festival of football were “blown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-10919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}