Coddington Primary School are Nottinghamshire county champions as their under-11 team win football tournament

Excitement has gripped a primary school after its under-11 team won a county football championship.

Coddington CofE Primary School and Nursery beat the eight winning teams from the various districts of Nottinghamshire to become champions of the county.

The team will now go on to represent Nottinghamshire in the Midland Regional Finals on Wednesday, March 13.

Eight winning teams were initially divided into two groups of four to play in a round-robin format with the top four teams going on to play in semi-finals and for those two winning teams — a final.

Coddington began their day strong with a 2-0 win over Abbey (Mansfield representatives) in a back-and-forth match that saw some fierce competition.

Great team work and perseverance drove the team through and they continued this run of form with another 2-0 win over Middleton (Notts representatives) in another hard fought match.

The final match of the group stages saw Coddington once again winning 2-0 against Tollerton.

Coddington finished the group stages as the only team to remain unbeaten from either group, conceding no goals and scoring six.

Coddington and Abbey progressed through Group A and Greasly Beauvale and Prospect Hill progressed from Group B.

Coddington then met Prospect Hill in the semi-finals.

Coddington against Prospect Hill was a challenging game for both teams but eventually, Coddington pushed through to the final as 3-1 winners.

In the final, disaster struck early, right at the start of the match, an own goal put Coddington 1-0 down.

Rather than let this get them down, the team showed outstanding resilience and supported each other to fight for victory.

This strategy paid off as they finished the match 3-1 winners against Greasly Beauvale and were crowned Nottinghamshire under-11 school champions.

The tournament marks the crowning achievement of this school team who will now go on to compete in the Midlands Regional tournament alongside the other championship teams.