Tennent's Soccer Sixes to return with legends version in October

Tennent’s Soccer Sixes to return with legends version in October

All 12 Scottish Premiership clubs will enter teams into a legends version of cult indoor tournament the Tennent's Soccer Sixes later this...

All 12 Scottish Premiership clubs will field a team in a legends version of the Tennent's Soccer Sixes later this year.

The revived indoor tournament, backed by the SPFL, takes place at Braehead Arena on the weekend of 3 and 4 October and will be broadcast on Premier Sports.

Group stages run on Saturday, with the winner and runner-up from three regionalised groups of four teams advancing to the knockout stage, joined by the two best third-placed sides.

Every match will have a winner, with a bonus point awarded for a penalty shootout win if the game is drawn after normal time. The sin bin will also be in use.

The Tennent's Soccer Sixes was a fixture of Scottish football for nine years from 1984, with clubs fielding many of their top players.

Partick Thistle, who play in the Scottish Championship and so will not feature in this year's event, won the last tournament in 1993.

SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster said: "The Tennent's Sixes has a special place in the hearts and minds of a generation of football fans and we are absolutely thrilled to get the band back together again with the official endorsement of the SPFL."

Source: www.bbc.co.uk — Read the original article

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