Powerchair Football

Powerchair football is a competitive team sport for people with physical disabilities who use power wheelchairs. The game is played in a gymnasium on a regulation basketball court. Two teams of four players use powerchairs equipped with footguards to attack, defend, and spin-kick a 13-inch (330 mm) football in an attempt to score goals.

For more information on what exactly Powerchair Football is, please check out the following article, a player's perspective.
Ciarán Nesbitt's article

Powerchair Football
-Joeys Powerchair Football Teams 2010

The origins of the St Joeys teams began in March of 2009. A couple of the team members were attending a disability fair in Stillorgan Co Dublin when they were invited to come along to a ten week programme of Powerchair Football initiated by Dún Laoghaire Rathdown Sports Partnership in dlr Leisure Services Loughlinstown. They went along and within a few weeks word had spread amongst their near and wider circle of friends and a core of ten began to meet regularly on a Friday for training. In August of 2009 the group progressed further becoming affiliated with the well-known soccer club St Joseph's Boys/Girls AFC in Sallynoggin and now the club continues to go from strength to strength.

The national association, the Association of Irish Powerchair Football (AIPF), has recently registered interest for the Powerchair Football World Cup in Paris 2011 - who knows! Some of our local heroes could bring home the Cup!

Would you like to play Powerchair Football

This Powerchair Football Club currently trains in St Josephs Boys Football Club, Pearse Park, Sallynoggin on a Friday evening from 4.00pm til 6.00pm.

Date:  Fridays
Time: 4.00pm - 6.00pm

Location:
St Josephs Boys Football Club 
Pearse Park
Sallynoggin
Co. Dublin

Contact: Phena O'Connor SIDO
Tel: (01) 271 9506
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