Country Philippines Champions Negros Occidental | Dates March - May 2011 Runners-up Iloilo | |
The 2011 PFF National Men's Under-23 Championship (known as the PFF-Suzuki Under-23 Championship for sponsorship reasons) is a football tournament in the Philippines organized by the Philippine Football Federation (PFF) and Japanese automaker Suzuki. It is the first of its kind in the country.
Contents
The tournament was announced after the two bodies agreed on a P3.2 million sponsorship deal for the national tournament. It aims to get the finest under-23 players that would represent the country in the upcoming Under-23 Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) tournament late in 2011.
On 22 May 2011, Negros Occidental defeated Iloilo with a 12–1 aggregate scoreline to win the title.
The rules
The Under-23 Suzuki championship will adopt the rules and guidelines set by the ASEAN Football Federation.
The tournament will be divided into four clusters: National Capital Region, Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. The top two of each will advance to the national championship in June 2011. In the Finals, the remaining teams will follow a home-and-away format.
Schedule
The officials
Timeline
Mission
In addition, standout players in the tournament will be considered as part of the national team for the 26th South East Asian Games and the AFF U-23 tournament in July, which both events will happen in Indonesia this year.
Quarterfinals
Quarterfinals will divided into two groups and two venues, the Laguna group and the Bacolod group.
The University of the Philippines-Los Baños pitch will be the site for the Laguna group that includes host and Luzon second placer Laguna; Mindanao overall leader Davao; NCR Team A, and Visayas’ number two seed, Iloilo.
Panaad Stadium will be the venue for the group of Visayas’ top seed Bacolod, NCR Team B, Mindanao second placer Dipolog, and Luzon topnotcher, Masbate.
Laguna
Bacolod
Finals
NOFA won 12–1 on aggregate.
Awards
The following were the competition’s top individual awardees.