{"id":637828,"date":"2026-04-29T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/637828\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T06:00:16","slug":"2026-state-futsal-championships-lives-up-to-the-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/637828\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 State Futsal Championships lives up to the hype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"standfirst\">There was no shortage of excitement at the Darebin Community Sports Stadium as the annual State Futsal Championships were played out last week.<\/p>\n<p>Five men\u2019s sides, four women\u2019s and one mixed were crowned champions at the tournament which was open for all futsal clubs across Victoria to enter.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our 2026 State Futsal Champions:U8 Mixed \u2013 West Vic WarriorsU9 Boys \u2013 Broxham FCU10 Boys \u2013 West Vic WarriorsU12 Boys \u2013 Melbourne AKU FCU14 Boys \u2013 Melbourne City FCYouth Men \u2013 Hume FCU11 Girls \u2013 Fitzroy Tigers FCU13 Girls \u2013 Fitzroy Tigers FCU15 Girls \u2013 Wanderers FCOpen Women \u2013 Fitzroy Tigers FC<\/p>\n<p>              <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ht_16042026_003.jpg\" alt=\"futsal\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And congratualtions to all of the individual award winners from the tournament:\u00a0U8B \u2013 Golden Boot \u2013 Anik Sharma \u2013 7 Goals \u2013 West Vic Warriors FCU9B \u2013 Golden Boot &#8211; Ryandeep Singh \u2013 18 Goals \u2013 Broxham FCU10B \u2013 Golden Boot \u2013 Oskar Olszewski \u2013 12 Goals \u2013 West Vic Warriors FCU11G \u2013 Golden Boot \u2013 Christina Tsangas \u2013 28 Goals \u2013 Fitzroy Tigers FCU12B \u2013 Golden Boot \u2013 Michael Sayed \u2013 18 Goals \u2013 Melbourne City FCU13G \u2013 Golden Boot \u2013 Frankie Di Vito \u2013 5 Goals \u2013 Fitzroy Tigers FC\u00a0U14B \u2013 Golden Boot \u2013 Kyenne Colomiere \u2013 7 Goals \u2013 Fitzroy Tigers FCU15G \u2013 Golden Boot \u2013 Annika Kordanovski \u2013 6 Goals \u2013 Wanderers FCYouth Men \u2013 Armaan Dawood \u2013 6 Goals \u2013 Hume FCOpen Women \u2013 Laila Abdullatif \u2013 7 Goals \u2013 Fitzroy Tigers FCU8B \u2013 MVP \u2013 Anika Sharma \u2013 West Vic Warriors FCU9B \u2013 MVP \u2013 Liam Messaritis \u2013 Broxam FCU10B \u2013 MVP \u2013 Howard Narruitt \u2013 West Vic Warriors FCU11G \u2013 MVP \u2013 Christina Tsangas \u2013 Fitzroy Tigers FC\u00a0U12B \u2013 MVP \u2013 Arthur Yudishitira \u2013 Melbourne AKU FCU13G \u2013 MVP \u2013 Savannah Micallef \u2013 Fitzroy Tigers FC\u00a0U14B \u2013 MVP \u2013 Marco Lee \u2013 Melbourne City FCU15G \u2013 MVP \u2013 Eva Guan \u2013 Wanderers FCYouth Men \u2013 MVP \u2013 Abdullahi Awal \u2013 Hume FCOpen Women \u2013 MVP \u2013 Laila Abdullatif \u2013 Fitzroy Tigers FC\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Football Victoria Futsal Program Coordinator Jimmy Soufis was thrilled with the quality on display throughout the week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The level of futsal being played in Victoria at the moment is incredibly high, and that was on full display at the State Champs last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Congratulations to all of our winning sides and our individual award winners are certainly in order, but I would also like to congratulate everyone who made the week a special one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would also like to say thank you to the team at the Darebin Community Sports Stadium for being such fantastic hosts of the 2026 State Futsal Championships and thank you to all the staff and volunteers who helped bring the tournament to life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To access the photos taken throughout the week, head <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/eP4pxCmMBWC5r1Ly9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>. All photography courtesy of Halftime Photography.<\/p>\n<p>And to watch all of the streamed matches from the 2026 Victorian State Futsal Championships, head <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@footballfedvic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was no shortage of excitement at the Darebin Community Sports Stadium as the annual State Futsal Championships&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,75148,293372,85],"class_list":["post-637828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-football-victoria-news","tag-futsal","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637828","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=637828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}