George Best Community Cup - Dedicated to One of The Legends of Football

Travel

Any team travelling to Belfast by boat or plane, we advise the following destinations as as ideal points of arrival:

George Best Belfast City Airport

Belfast International Airport

Belfast Harbour

We will arrange travel from these points to your accommodation and from there to the tournament at required times.

Any team travelling from Southern Ireland by train will be picked up at Belfast Central Station..

We would appreciate if all other teams arrange their own travel to and from the tournament but please don’t hesitate to contact us if you require any special arrangements.

We plan to run a range of practical workshops during the times when the young people are not on the pitch. The themes of the workshops will be about developing the young people at a personal level, developing their respect and understanding of each other, and also develop there ability to work with differences. Examples of the workshops will include race relations, drugs awareness, anti sectarianism, music, art workshops. We would expect the young people to be participating in these workshops with the same enthusiasm as the football matches.

Accomodation

Queens University Accommodation

Queen's has recently invested almost £45 million in providing excellent facilities at the Elms Student Village. Not only is Queen's accommodation amongst the best and most modern in the UK and Ireland, it is also very competitively priced!
Queen's has over 2,000 rooms available.  All rooms are self-catered, single study bedrooms.  Students share kitchen facilities and make their own meals.  There are standard rooms (with shared bathroom facilities) or ensuite rooms (which have a private shower room). Many of the residences are networked for internet access. The Student Centre at Elms Village has a bistro, bar, convenience store and launderette.

Elms Village

Queens university provides a perfect base for discovering Northern Ireland set in a leafy residential area this modern village style residence is located 15 minutes walk from Belfast City Centre and 15 minutes drive to all pitches. The Elms Village also has a centre offering a restaurant, launderette, shop and ATM cash machines. Rooms are in a low rise accommodation blocks of 3 floors and a common room with kitchen and television on each floor. Each block holds 18 people. Elms Village has 1,126 guest rooms featuring simple modern decor with internet connections, desks and private bathroom with shower.

Security

Elms Village is a completely secure location rangeing from security gates at front of location to each block having its own key card not stopping ther your key card and only access you to the floor your are on in your block.  In parternship with East Belfast Titanic Festival we will also have are own security firm on site at all times.