Holders Idle have been placed in Group Four of the Gordon Bowers Under-Nine Eight-A-Side Competition.

Their opponents are Pudsey St Lawrence, Thackley and Undercliffe.

Runners-up Pudsey Congs have been placed in Group Three with Drighlington, East Bierley and Gildersome.

Group games must be completed by July 18, with the first round of the cup phase to be finished by July 29.

Quarter-finals are due for completion by August 10 and the semi-finals by August 16. The final is scheduled for Undercliffe Cricket Club on Sunday, August 22 (10am).

Group One: Baildon, Crompark, Saltaire, Shipley Providence. Group Two: Barkisland, Copley, Lightcliffe, Rastrick. Group Three: Drighlington, East Bierley, Gildersome, Pudsey Congs. Group Four: Idle, Pudsey St Lawrence, Thackley, Undercliffe. Group Five: Cleckheaton, Mirfield Parish Cavaliers, Moorlands, Mount. Group Six: Buttershaw St Paul’s, Great Horton Church, Manningham Mills, Northowram Fields.

The competition, which is the brainchild of Tom Priestley, started 28 years ago but it only changed to an under-nine tournament from an under-12 event last year.