£119 per 5-a-side team
£149 per 7-a-side team
£169 per 9-a-side team
£199 per 11-a-side team

OR Club Registration Fee (unlimited teams) = £399

Friday: No football is played on the day of arrival, so teams can relax and get settled into accommodation and enjoy the evening’s entertainment. Check in for accommodation is from 4pm, but you can arrive on resort from 1pm. A briefing meeting for Group Leaders & Coaches will take place on Friday evening.

Saturday & Sunday: There’s an electric atmosphere around the pitches as the action starts and ESF kicks off. All teams will play group stage matches on both days. Where required, knock out matches will take place following the group stages. Teams should expect to play 5 – 8 games over the weekend, depending on the festival format and how for the team progress in the festival. The ESF celebrity presentation ceremonies will take place on the Sunday afternoon/evening.

Monday: No football is played on the Monday. Teams therefore have the option of travelling home on the Sunday evening or Monday. Check Out is 10am on Monday but you do not have to leave the resort until Midday.

You will be allocated one ESF 2023 wristband for each member of your party booked through ESF Events. Please be aware that people without a wristband will not be able to participate in the festival, attend the presentation ceremony or enter evening entertainment venues at the holiday centres.

A full final briefing email will be sent to the Group Leaders of all participating teams 7-10 days before the festival takes place. The final briefing will include fixtures, schedules and the festival rules, which have been sanctioned by the appropriate National Football Association. At this stage, the ESF App will also go live displaying all festival fixtures and schedules.

ESF is a festival for grassroots teams of all abilities. All teams must be affiliated to a County, Area or School Football Association. Centre of Excellence and Academy teams affiliated to professional clubs and ‘representative’ sides are not permitted to enter ESF 2023. Please contact ESF Events before registering if you have any questions regarding the eligibility of your team(s).

In accordance with FA rules, boys who are currently registered with an FA Premier League or Football League Academy are not permitted to participate in ESF 2023.

In accordance with FA rules, girls who are registered with a Regional Talent Club are permitted to participate in ESF 2023, providing they are currently a registered player for the team participating in ESF 2023, and they have approval from the RTC to participate in grassroots football. Please note, girls registered with a Regional Talent Club cannot participate in ESF 2023 as a ‘Guest Player’.

Please contact ESF Events if you have any questions regarding the eligibility of any of your players.

*In accordance with FA rules, once a player has turned 6 years of age they will be permitted to participate in the U7 age section at ESF 2022.

Teams are permitted to register a maximum of two ‘guest players’ for the festival. ‘Guest players’ are players who are not currently registered with your club. They must produce documentary evidence to your club secretary to prove that they are the correct age and they must bring these documents with them to the festival.

Every child who participates receives a high quality award as a memento of ESF. In addition, in each age section there are superb individual and team awards for the Winners, Runners-Up and Fair Play winners, as well as prestigious honours, including the ESF Fair Play Awards, the Magic Moment Awards and Player of the Tournament Awards.

Teams from the local area where the festivals are staged are permitted to apply for entry by returning the Team Registration Form. However, we cannot guarantee a place in the festival until the numbers of touring teams are finalised in each age group. At this stage, if additional teams are required in a given age group for the good of the festival, applications from local teams will be accepted on a first-come first-served basis.