2021 Manning Cup season

The 2021 Manning Cup (also currently known as the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/Gatorade/Digicel Manning Cup football competition for sponsorship reasons) is the 107th season of Secondary High School Under-19 boys' teams located in the Kingston & St Andrew and Saint Catherine parishes of Jamaica. This is the first Manning Cup following the COVID-19 pandemic, as a result the manning cup experienced a decrease from 45 - 22 teams.
Major Events
On November 22, 2021, ISSA announced that St. Mary's College will have no further participation for the remainder of the season. They stated that all of St. Mary's College previous fixtures including the 26-0 defeat to St. Catherine and 13-0 defeat to Wolmer's Boys will be null and void. Issa additionally announced that Kingston College would be awarded a 3-0 victory instead of a 2-0 victory against Mona High. KC were awarded a 3-0 victory due to Mona High fielding an ineligible player.
On December 7, 2021, ISSA announced that two teams, Camperdown High and Tivoli Gardens High schools have been booted from this year's ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup. Both teams played in the Manning Cup's Group B and had initially qualified for the quarterfinals but those results were later null and void. This ruling by ISSA gave Excelsior and STATHS the remaining spots in the quarterfinals.
Rules and Regulation
# All players must be under nineteen (19) years on August 31 preceding start of the school year.
# Duration of matches: Two halves of forty-five (45) minutes each, with an interval of ten to fifteen minutes.
# The Referee is required to provide a “Water Break” midway each half of each game.
# Substitution. SEVEN substitutes are allowed per team per match. However, ONLY a maximum of FOUR (4) substitutions may take place in either half. Additionally, EACH team will be allowed a maximum of FIVE (5) substitution breaks with no more than THREE breaks per half.
# In the Manning Cup, each team will play the other once in each of three preliminary round group. There will be NO Home & Away ties.
Qualification
# At the conclusion of the preliminary rounds, the first two in each group will advance to the next round. Should there be a tie for any place, goal difference, then most goals shall be used to break the tie. Should the tie remain for the second place, there will be a play-off to determine second place.
# In the Manning Cup the best 3rd place/next best 3rd place teams will be determined by the number of points earned divided by the number of matches played.
# The FIRST and SECOND place teams from each group along with the TWO BEST THIRD Place teams in the Manning Cup First Round will advance to the second round (Quarter Finals) of the Manning Cup.
# FIRST and SECOND place teams in the Quarter Finals of the Manning Cup will advance to the SEMI FINALS.
Regular Season
Group A
Results
Group B
Results
Group C
Results
Quarterfinals

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