The 2010/11 Claro/Kingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) Jackie Bell Knockout competition kicks off tomorrow with seven play-off games.

The play-offs, which will see the winners advancing to the first round of the competition, see Police Nationals and Central Kingston in the feature match of the round. In two other games, Seaview Gardens host Pembroke Hall while New Kingston travel to Cling Cling Oval to face Olympic Gardens.

Then on Thursday, it's Island Special Constabulary Force versus Swallowfield at a venue to be announced; Shortwood United vs Allman/Woodford at Heroes Circle; Brown's Town hosting Stony Hill and Molynes United tackling Red Hills.

The KSAFA Jackie Bell competition was started in 1987 in honour of the late football coach Winthorpe 'Jackie' Bell, who died in a bus accident, along with fellow coach Dennis Zaidie, while attending the 1986 World Cup Finals in Mexico.

Bell was a former St George's College Manning Cup player, national player, coach of Santos Football Club and president of the club.

More than 30 KSAFA affiliate clubs from all divisions including the Premier League, Super League, Major League and Syd Bartlett League will compete for the Jackie Bell Trophy.

The winners of this year's championship will receive $350,000, with $200,000 going to the second-place team, $100,000 for third and $50,000 to the team finishing fourth. August Town are the defending champions and will start their defence on Saturday, September 4, against Real Mona at Butter Cup Park. Meadforest will also take on Greenwich Town and Rae Town play Maxfield Park.

KSAFA's big five - Harbour View, Waterhouse, Arnett Gardens, Tivoli Gardens and Boys' Town from the premier league - will enter the competition at the quarter-final stage.

Constant Spring won the inaugural competition in 1987. The competition was abandoned in 1988/89 following violence at a semi-final match.

Duhaney Park were the first non-Premier League club to win the title. Santos and Cavalier are the only two KSAFA clubs who have won premier league titles but have never lifted the Jackie Bell KO.

Arnett Gardens FC have registered the most wins, five, while both Harbour View and Waterhouse have four crowns each. Boys' Town have only one lien on the trophy. They won in 2005/06.

KSAFA sweep JFF Under 13 & 15 titles

The two KSAFA teams - Kingston and St Andrew, registered 2-0 and 2-1 wins respectively to crown themselves national junior champions in the Jamaica Football Federation's (JFF) National Under 13 & 15 Challenge Cup finals played at the Prison Oval last Saturday.

It was a supremely confident Westmoreland Under-13 aggregation that took the field in the opening match of the double-header against 2009 runners-up Kingston. The Westmoreland Co-op Credit Union-sponsored team were bolstered by the fact that they had already beaten the two KSAFA teams - Kingston 1-0 and St Andrew 2-0 - in the earlier rounds.

So confident were they of victory, they crowned themselves 'National Champions' prior to the game with a banner proudly displayed on the front of their team bus that rolled into the Prison Oval on Saturday. They threatened to 'lock up' the Locker Room-sponsored Team Kingston.

When the whistle sounded for the start, Westmoreland launched a spirited attack, but the experienced Kingston backline beat back their early forays. However, midway the first half the fortunes of the precocious first-time finalists began to change. The Kingston team started to gain the ascendancy with some nippy one-two passes and stinging shots led by Kingston College/Barbican's Wayne Campbell.

Thereafter the action swung from end to end and the goalkeepers from both teams were forced to bring off some brilliant saves. The first half ended 0-0.

At the start of the second half, Kingston seized the initiative. Their efforts were soon rewarded when Wayne Campbell latched on to a through pass to score in the 40th minute.

Norman Manley/Waterhouse FC's Dane Johnson put Kingston 2-0 up some ten minutes later when he rifled home from a brilliant solo run. When the final whistle sounded, coach Chris Burnett rushed on to the field to hug and congratulate his charges. This was the sixth consecutive time a KSAFA team was winning the JFF National Under-13 Challenge Cup.

The second match witnessed what has now become an almost perennial feature - two KSAFA teams against each other in the Under-15 final, Kingston vs St Andrew.

Raffick Bryan put the more composed St Andrew 1-0 up within two minutes of the start and completed his brace by slotting home from a corner in the sixth minute.

Kingston pulled a goal back when Junior Flemming scored in the 73rd minute, but St Andrew held on for a 2-1 victory.

Jackie Bell winners

Year Club

1987/88 Constant Spring

1988/89 abandoned

1989/90 Arnett Gardens

1990/91 Duhaney Park

1991/92 Arnett Gardens

1992/93 JDF

1993/94 Tivoli Gardens

1994/95 Arnett Gardens

1995/96 Harbour View

1996/97 Waterhouse

1997/98 Waterhouse

1998/99 Arnett Gardens

1999/2000 Constant Spring

2000/01 Harbour View

2001/02 Waterhouse

2002/03 Waterhouse

2003/04 Tivoli Gardens

2004/05 Arnett Gardens

2005/06 Boy's Town.

2006/07 Harbour View

2007/08 Harbour View

2008/09 Tivoli Gardens

2009/10 August Town