Brikama zonal team would be looking for their first zonal championship trophy in the history of the competition, when they would line up for the 2006 Zonal final on Sunday at the Serekunda East Min-stadium.

The western region boys put up formidable performances since the beginning of the 2006 championship by winning all their four matches. After humiliating Banjul 4-0 in their first group matches, Brikama recorded other successes on Gunjur and Sukuta 3-1 and 1-0 respectively and claimed the top position in the group A with 9 points.

They scored 9 goals and conceded only one in four outings with an average of 2.25 goals by match.
Brikama booked their tickets to the final on Wednesday after beating the three times winners Bakau 1-0 in a well attended and competed game played at the Box Bar Mini-stadium in Brikama. Bouba Darboe of Armed Forces scored the only goal of the game in the 52nd minute of the encounter.

Brikama is now set to face the winner between Serekunda East and Gunjur, in the grand final on Sunday December 10th 2006 at the Serekunda East Mini-stadium.

At press time yesterday Thursday Serekunda East was battling with Gunjur in the second semi-final at the Serekunda West Mini-stadium. Meanwhile the winners of this year’s Zonal championship would be awarded a trophy, twenty-five gold medals and a cash prize of D25,000, the runners up would receive twenty-five silver medals and a cash prize of D15,000 while the third place winners would go home with twenty-five bronze medals.

Consolation prizes of D6,000 will be given to the six other teams in the championship. It could be noted that Mr and Mrs. Norman sponsored the trophy, medals and cash of D40,000, used as preparatory cost for the eight teams at D4,000 per team while Barry and Jan Case also donated D40,000 for winning prizes.