Group C began with L'Albiceleste of France taking on Littleborough FC of England. It was one of the most experienced teams in our tournaments against a team on debut. L'Albiceleste had an amazing group record in our events.

2012 Budapest Fives:   P5 W4 D1 L0 F8 A1 Points – 13 (1st)

2012 Valencia Fives:   P4 W2 D2 L0 F10 A7 Points – 8 (1st)

2013 Mallorca Fives:   P5 W4 D1 L0 F13 A3 Points – 13 (1st)

2014 Berlin Fives: P4 W4 D0 L0 F14 A2 Points – 12 (1st)

2016 Riga Tournament: P5 W4 D0 L1 F14 A6 Points – 12 (1st)

2017 Barcelona Fives: P7 W5 D2 L0 F18 A4 Points – 17 (2nd)

2018 Algarve Open: P7 W7 D0 L0 F12 A1 Points – 21 (1st)

2019 Alicante Tournament: P5 W3 D1 L1   F8 A2 Points – 10 (4th)

Group Record Total: P42 W33 D7 L2 F97 A26 Points 106

In our first glimpse of Littleborough FC they had acquitted themselves quite well. Against a team who had won 3 titles they were certainly well in the game. Ultimately it would just be the one goal to settle matters and separate the two sides. It was a familiar scorer for the French team with Cedric Castarde (golden boot winner in the past) claiming the goal that secured all 3 points for L'Albiceleste.

We finished the first round of games with Rapid B Pavas “home” to Norfolk N Chance.

Rapid B Pavas were the more experienced of the two teams with quite a history in this tournament:

November 2008: Winners.

June 2009: Won their group before losing on penalties in the Cup quarter-finals.

November 2009: Finished joint top of their group before going out in the Cup QF.

June 2010: Finished 2nd in their group before losing on penalties in the Cup Semi-Finals.

April 2011: Runners-Up.

November 2011: Finished 2nd in their group behind eventual winners Midshires FC. Then, went on and lost 3-0 in Cup Semi-Finals to Hungary's FC Miracle.

April 2012: Finished joint top of their group before losing to Hungary's Budapest Celtic Pumas via Golden Goal.

October 2013: Finished fourth in their group and knocked out in the Trophy Semi-Finals.

October 2014: Finished third in their group and knocked out in the Plate Quarter-Finals.

October 2015: Won Group E with 10 points out of 12. They were knocked out in the Cup Quarter-Final (4-0) by Elcombe Old Boys.

October 2016: 2 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats as they finished 6th of 8 teams in Group B. They qualified for the Trophy and went out on the Quarter-Finals (1-0) to Ealing Expendables.

Norfolk N Chance were on debut and made a flying start. Joe Sames scored his team's first goal in Europe before Josh Sullivan made it 2-0. Tom Connell made it 3-0 and the points looked in the bag. There was a bit of a late wobble though as Cecilio Garcia Leon and Faustino Lopez pulled it back to 3-2 but Norfolk N Chance had enough in the tank to see out the victory.