The Guernsey Football Association can add a 47th win to the island’s list of Muratti Vase victories, following a barn storming first half for the Sarnian men which led them to a 3-1 win over Jersey.
That came after Guernsey had already retained the women’s trophy, with a 2 – 1 victory over Jersey earlier on Saturday.
The Sarnian women’s victory means that Guernsey and Jersey have both won the ladies’ Muratti twice since it was relaunched in 2022 following the disbanding of the Guernsey team in 2017.
How the games unfolded
962 fans turned up for the earlier kick off at Victoria Park, to witness a hard-fought match between Guernsey and Jersey’s women.
The visitors took the lead through Sam Silva (24′), but Guernsey showed incredible resilience with Calleigh Hedley equalising in the 58th minute.
Hedley swiftly added her second goal just two minutes later.
Despite a disallowed Jersey goal late on, Guernsey held strong to claim an historic 2-1 win for the first inter-insular match played at the island’s new home of football.
Hedley was named Player of the Match for her part in the win.
The men’s Muratti Vase final kicked off in the afternoon before a 3,090 strong crowd.
Guernsey captain Ross Allen opened the scoring early, (7′), and later bagged himself a second (34′).
Charlton Gauvain added another fantastic goal for the Green Lions just two minutes after Allen’s opener. Jersey managed a reply through Hinds (25′), but it wasn’t enough to stop the dominant Guernsey side on the day.
Allen was named Player of the Match as Guernsey ended Jersey’s five-Muratti winning streak.
History made at Guernsey’s new ‘home of football’
The potential headlines and attention grabbing factoids were free flowing for this years Muratti games.
First, the women’s side retained the trophy which hasn’t happened since the Sarnian’s super successful period in the late 1990s when the women’s inter insular was founded.
Since then victories have come, but the women’s Muratti trophy has never stayed in Guernsey for two years in a row.
Jersey have won the ladies’ Muratti 16 times out of the total 24 times the trophy has been contested.
Much like the ladies’ side, the history books ‘do’ look more favourably on Jersey in the Muratti Vase competition too.
This is more evident in recent years considering that since this weekend was the first time Guernsey’s men had won the competition since 2017.
In total Jersey have held the Muratti Vase on 59 occasions with Guernsey now winning it 48 times.