2016–17 Sri Lanka FA Cup

2016–17 Sri Lanka FA Cup
Cargills Food City FA Cup
Country  Sri Lanka
Dates 24 November 2016 –
Teams 672

The 2016-17 is the 55th season of Sri Lanka FA Cup.The top tier knockout football tournament in Sri Lanka.It is sponsored by Cargills for the 4th consecutive year,and known as Cargills Food City FA Cup.[1] There are 672 clubs participating in 66 leagues around the country.[2] Tournament began on 24 November 2016 with the Preliminary Round.

The defending champions are Army.

Team Allocation

The preliminary rounds being conducted at league level (knockout basis).Accordingly, each league will hold knock out rounds for its clubs and the champions from each league will progress to the next round. A total of 60 (minus the 6 services) teams will progress and be added to the 31 teams who were among the final 32 team of the Cargills Food City FA Cup 2015.

Out of the qualified 60 teams 6 teams will receive byes and the remaining 54 teams will play a second round (knockout basis). The qualifying 27 teams will go into a draw with the remaining 37 teams. The final 64 teams will be drawn to play the 3rd stage of the Cargills Food City FA Cup 2016.

Prior to entering for the tournament, from the total of 91 teams 29 will receive the go to the next round based on their performance in the FA cup last year. A draw will be held to fix the matches for this round.

Teams

RoundClubs RemainingClubs involvedByes Received
Preliminary Round60641—
Second Round2754—
Third Round326437
Fourth Round1632—
Fifth Round816—
Quarter Finals48—
Semi Finals24—
Finals12—

Prize Fund

  • The winners will receive a cash award of Rs.700,000 .

Preliminary round

In the Preliminary round 641 clubs competed in their leagues.Then the league winners of each league will qualify for the Second round.The secound round will be consist of 61 league winners.

League winners

This 61 league winners qualified for the Second Round.[3]

Second round

61 clubs of league winners are contested in this round.The 30 winners will advance to the Third Round.[4]

Third round

17 March 2017

Uni of Moratuwa 0 – 7 New Youngs FC

22 March 2017

Java Lane 2 – 0 Prison SC

Municipal Council (Rathnapura) 0 – 9 Saunders SC

24 March 2017

Air Force SC 13 – 0 Reliance SC

Liverpool SC 3 – 4 St.Mary’s SC

27 March 2017

Nawagampura SC 1 — 3 Crystal Palace FC

28 March 2017

St.Nicholas SC 4 – 0 Al Hira SC

Singing Fish SC 3 – 0 Jupiters SC

Kurinjikumaran SC 1 – 2 Brilliant SC

30 March 2017

Colombo FC 2 – 0 SLTB SC

2 April 2017

Olympic SC 0 – 3 Super Sun SC

Navy SC 2 - 0 Cooray SC

Maya SC (Kegalle FL) 0 – 3 Army SC (walkover)

St.Xavier’s SC (Madhu Manthai FL) 0 – 3 Matara City Club (walkover)

Pelicans SC 3 – 0 Philip Gunawardena SC (Seethawaka FL) (walkover)

Jet Liners SC 3 – 0 Solaniya SC (walkover)

7 April 2017

Old Mazenodians SC 2 – 3 Civil Security SC

Up Country Lions 5 – 1 Gold Moon SC (Matale FL)

Old Bens SC 1 – 2 New Star SC

Negombo Youth 9 – 0 Green Light SC (Trincomalee FL)

Police SC 9 – 0 Liberty SC (Bandarawela FL)

Leo SC (Kurunegala FL) 2 – 0 Thihariya Youth SC

Sivanantha SC 0 – 3 Kirulapone Utd

Renown SC 3 – 0 Young Birds SC (Mulativu FL)

8 April 2017

Serendib SC 1 (4) – 1 (2) St.Joseph’s SC

Easwaran SC (Vavuniya FL) 3 – 0 Kalutara Park (walkover)

Wimbledon SC (Puttlam FL) 3 – 0 Hillary SC

Kurunduwatta SC (Galle FL) 0 – 1 Comrades SC

Young Birds SC (N’Eliya FL) 1 – 0 Solid SC

Renown SC (Hatton FL) 0 – 3 Blue Star SC

Red Star SC 10 – 1 National SC (Kanthankudy FL)

Date unknown

Golden Rise SC 3 – 0 Highlanders (awarded due to ineligible players)

Fourth round

9 April 2017

Super Sun SC 2 – 1 Serendib SC

Saunders SC 6 – 1 Up Country Lions SC

Blue Star SC 3 – 0 Leo SC

10 April 2017

Crystal Palace 1(3) – 1(2) New Youngs FC

11 April 2017

Negombo Youth 6 – 0 Jet Liners SC

Easwaran SC 0 – 20 Army SC

12 April 2017

Brilliant SC 2 – 1 Red Star SC

St.Mary’s SC 12 – 0 Wimbledon SC

St.Nicholas’ SC 0 – 1 Navy SC

21 April 2017

Civil Security 1(3) – 1(4) Air Force SC

24 April 2017

Golden Rise SC 1 – 4 Renown SC

Kirulapone United 1 – 5 Java Lane

Colombo FC 3 – 0 Young Birds SC (walkover)

Comrades SC 2(1) – 2(4) Pelican SC

25 April 2017

Police SC 0(1) – 0(4) Singing Fish SC

Date unknown

Matara City 3 – 1 New Star SC

Round of 16

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

SL Army 5–1 Java Lane

References

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