The Plate Group would see 3 teams playing for the Plate Title by winning the group. The team finishing in 2nd place would earn Plate runners-up medals. Each team would play each other twice i.e. ‘home' and ‘away' and so have four games to prove they were the rightful and worthy winners of the 2009 Valencia Fives Plate champions.

The first game would see the opening CSF derby not just in this tournament but in overall eurofootballfives.com competition. In six previous tournaments from the Algarve to Prague with stops in between in Amsterdam , Barcelona and Krakow (twice) they had managed to avoid each other – not anymore!

CSF Kiwis were entered as the ‘A' team and results so far would suggest that was the case. They were firm favourites and made no mistake in ramming home this advantage against their friends and colleagues as they opened up a 5-0 lead by half-time. The second half saw CSF Oz earn some credibility narrowly losing 3-2 troubling the scorers twice through Ryan Moore and Michael Ofori. The overall result was an 8-2 win for CSF Kiwi. Alex Thomas scored his first goals of the tournament by helping himself to a hat-trick, James Nott scored twice along with goals from Tom Mottram, Graeme McGregor and Oz Zamora.

The goal from Zamora meant he had scored in 7 different eurofootballfives' tournaments – a record. This tournament was also his last before emigrating to Australia . He has already vowed to return next year making the journey from down under. Fantastic commitment and we take our hats off!

CSF Oz were back in action versus Art Hosteleria who had Spain 's hopes of Plate victory on their shoulders. CSF Oz, having lost to their sister squad, were hoping to do their colleagues a favour by taking points from their hosts. Linden Hutchinson sent the watching CSF gallery wild as he put CSF Oz ahead for the first time in the tournament. They were playing some good football and Art Hosteleria were struggling to get into the game. The CSF almost preserved their lead until half-time but fell just short when Carlos Gutierrez Cuallado sent the Art Hosteleria supporters crackers with the equaliser. In the 2 nd half the Spanish went ahead and never looked back. They pulled away from the CSF team as they earned a 4-1 victory to go level at the top with CSF Kiwi.

This game was also important as it marked the first game in eurofootballfives.com history to be refereed by former Premier League referee Graham Barber. Referee Barber has officiated in the Premier League, Champions League and an FA Cup Final but surely the Valencia Fives has to be top of the lot???? Ok, the jury is still out on that one!