With $1M on the line for the winner, the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) will kick off their Banks DIH Vita Malta/Aqua Mist Knock-out tournament today at the Den Amstel Community Centre.

A gala opening ceremony is planned from 13:00hrs, following which, the opening game of the tournament will be contested with Wales Football Club facing Bagotville Football Club and Young Achievers coming up against Beavers Football Club.

According to the fixtures, West Demerara’s top club Slingerz Football Club will then face the winner between the Wales /Bagotsville contest on December 12.

President of the WDFA Nigel Garraway, at the launching said the top four teams from the tournament will then advance to play in the knock-out stages of this year’s Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Banks Beer Cup where they can contest for the G$3M winner’s purse.

The team finishing second will pocket $500,000, third place $300,000 and fourth $100,000. Incentives are up for grabs for the player adjudged the most Valuable (MVP), highest goal scorer and best goal keeper.

Ever since their birth two years ago, Slingerz Football has had a stronghold on football on the ‘West Side’, winning every tournament competed in and also is the reigning GFA Banks Beer Cup Champions.

The WDFA knockout tournament will give other clubs under its umbrella a chance to take down the ‘West Side Kings of football’.

(Rawle Toney)