Darren O’Connor

Head of sport for Stafford international school in Colombo, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

[Darren O’Connor @Coach_DarrenOC]

U16 ALL ISLAND DIVISION 2 CHAMPIONS! 🏆🇱🇰

Through heavy rain, wild winds, and immense pressure, our U16 boys delivered a performance worthy of bringing another All Island title back to Stafford!

Stafford International School — U16 All Island Division 2 Champions. 🏆

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What an unbelievable experience taking the Stafford U14 team to Malaysia to compete in the KL Cup 2025!

With over 271 teams from 11 countries participating in the tournament, the competition was intense — and our boys from Sri Lanka secured an incredible bronze medal!

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2025 Big Match Winners ⚽️🏆

Stafford 3-0 CIS!

An amazing and dominant display from our boys to secure the championship

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U14 All Island Runner’s Up!

What an outstanding achievement from our boys team finishing 2nd out of 492 schools in All Island finals! Sadly losing out on penalties but what a journey!

Girls team also became Colombo district winners!

Stafford football is flying!!

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U14 GIRLS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS CHAMPIONS!!!!

Wow! An already unbelievable week has now somehow got even better!

Stafford’s first ever International Schools Championship Victory!

These kids are so special!

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3 more trophies with our u12 boys and girls securing the wins as well as our u10 girls!

Amazing save from the goalkeeper to win it for the U12 Boys!

The trophies keep coming!

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What a weekend!

U14’s Champions of the Victory Carnival!

What a group of boys these are!

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U12 Champions!

U7 Champions!

Girls Champions!

What a day for Stafford football!

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A great start to a busy weekend!

U14’s dominating the tournament with 5 great wins and total score across the games of 13-1!

More trophies to add the cabinet! ⚽️🏆

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What a group of boys! Runners up of u20 international schools football tournament. Couldn’t be more proud of these guys!

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What a team! The progress has been phenomenal! From a group stage exit 2 years ago to finalists now!

Amazing fight from our boys scoring both winners in the QF and SF in the dying minutes of the matches!

Finals here we come!!!

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Hosting a football tournament ✅

Stafford Girls with another amazing result- Under 18 Inter International Schools runners up.

A very tough final only narrowly losing out 1-0 in the final 5 minutes. A match to be very proud of and an amazing tournament overall.

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Amazing 3rd place finish by this young squad! Most can play the same tournament next year as they’re 2014 born.

An absolute pleasure coaching them and scoring 4 out of 4 penalties at their age was a massive achievement! GK with some great saves to win it also!

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U12 Girls TISSL:

Stafford 1-1 Moir:
Shanelle ⚽
Sonja 🅰️

Stafford 2-0 Overseas:
Shanelle ⚽🅰️
Sonja ⚽🅰️

Stafford 4-1 Lyceum Panadura:
Sonja ⚽️⚽️🅰️
Shanelle ⚽️🅰️🅰️🅰️
Layla ⚽️

Stafford qualify top of the group in our first ever U12 Girls tournament!

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Back to some fun PE with the nursery-year 2 classes! Full of fun and ready to show their sporting skills!

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Busy summer of football!

Tutory u15 Boys champions
Tutory u23 Girls champions
U15 SLSFA Qualified from group
TSA carnival U14 Girls, U14 Boys and U16 Boys champions

The progress doesn’t stop yet!

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Summer holidays calls for one thing, beach practice!

Time to get the boys back in shape for the upcoming school year.

A few of them may have thrown up but it’s all part of the learning experience!

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U16 Sri Lankan Schools Football Association off to a flying start 🔥⚽️

Playing against local schools is a new experience for the boys but they’ve been phenomenal lately and already qualified from the group stage with 1 game to go!

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Some fun matches during the summer for our U14, U16 Girls and U12, U14 boys. 4 great results and the teams keep improving!

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Stafford u12’s secured 3 impressive victories to win the futsal tournament hosted by Alliance Francaise.

The match results

1st match-Stafford won 10-0

2nd match-Stafford won 10-0

Final-Stafford won 11-0

All 7 players scored throughout the 3 matches!