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Futsal season is open!

News added: 10/19/2010 07:48

The first futsal tournament among amateur teams in the season started with Kalev Vesi victory.
Twelve teams took part on Saturday 16th October in the Premium Futsal Cup where the winning team gets 500 points.

In the initial stage, the teams were divided according to the ratings with 3 seeded teams Kalev Vesi, Ahtme Vagon and Zapadnaya Granica divided into groups A, B and C.

All seeded team finished first in the group games and qualified to the quarter final stage. Maxima, Orion and Inter Tallinn finished second in the groups and also qualified to quarterfinals. Additionally, two best teams Swedbank and C.A.V.Amigos on 3rd position in the group also qualified to QF.

Other four teams who were out from main play-off went into Small Cup play-off competition.

In the first QF Zapadnaya Granica lost to C.A.V. Amigos 0:1. As a matter of fact, teams played each other in the initial group stage were C.A.V. Amigos lost a less important as it appeared later match.
Ahtme Vagon and Orion are the teams that arrived to the tournament from Jõhvi played in second QF. The recent winners of Premium Football Cup – Ahtme Vagon beat Orion 3:0.
In the third QF match Kalev Vesi won over Swedbank 2:0 and advanced to the semifinal stage on the C.A.V. Amigos.
Fourth quarter-finals as well as the match for the 3rd place were the noisiest due to the fact that Maxima played who has most active supporters. Maxima win over Inter Tallinn and gets onto Ahteme Vagon in semi-finals.

The first match of Small Cup competition Bisboccioni won over SEM tournaments debutant M.N.P. (Monday Night Players) 3:1.

In the second Small Cup competition match Green Way defeated Netlead with a convincing score 4:0. Both teams took part in Amateur SEM tournaments first time, however Netlead team is finalist of the Grand Corporate Championship 2010.   

The semi-final matches were won  by Kalev Vesi and Ahtme Vagon who are to play the second consecutive Premium Cup Final.   
Maxima supported by fans managed to win over C.A.V. Amigos 2:0 and gained 3rd place in the tournament.

In the Small Cup Final  the debutant Green Way defeated Bisboccioni 3:1 and won the Small Cup trophy.

The Final of the Premium Futsal Cup was truly final and tense. Having 2:2 and equal chances for the victory, Aleksandr Novikov puts the winning point scoring a goal against Ahtme Vagon assisted by Rifkat Garajev.

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Amateur teams rating points as of 18 October 2010.