History of South London Schools
FA Briggs and Magazine Cup
BRIGGs CUP
Lambeth & Southwark Primary Schools Football are pleased to announce that our Hon. President, Arthur Williams has agreed to provide a trophy for our new girls cup competition. This will be known as the Briggs Parr Cup named after two historic, great players of women's football, Joan Briggs and Lily Parr. They both played with distinction during the FA ban on women’s football and before the current era of professional women's football.
Lily Parr played during the early years of the twentieth century from the First World War to 1951 and when in 1920 over 50,000 attended a women’s match at Everton’s Goodison Park. Shortly after this the FA effectively banned women from the professional game.
Joan Briggs played for England in the 1950s and 60s when women’s football was still outlawed by the FA. Both Lily and Joan were outstanding players and role models for women’s football of their time and L&SPSF is proud to name our new girls competition after such iconic figures.
MAGAZINE CUP
The South London Schools FA (SLSFA) was founded in 1885 making it one of the oldest schools football associations in the world. L&SPSF is pleased to be affiliated to such an historic institution.
The SLSFA runs representative schools teams from under 11 which is the L&SPSF age group up to under 19s. In recent seasons at under 11 SLSFA has had success winning the Finch (3 times) and Kay Trophies (twice) and an international 7 a side competition in France (4 times) with the bulk of the team provided by L&SPSF schools.
The Magazine Cup was inaugurated in 1925 by the SLSFA and was so named because the silver cup awarded to the winners was provided by a local sports magazine. The original silver trophy is still awarded to the winning school and is now held by Rosendale Primary of Herne Hill who beat Paxton Primary of Gipsy Hill in the 2023/24 final.
The 2019/20 competition was cut short by the Covid 19 Pandemic which halted all play in schools football until September 2021. There was therefore no cup competition that season.
