History will be created today when Holy Trinity High School host their first ISSA Digicel Manning Cup game on the school ground when they welcome neighbours St George’s College for a Zone G encounter at 3:30 pm.

Holy Trinity, which resides on George Headley Drive and shares that road with Sabina Park, is also a stone’s throw away from St George’s College to its west and its back wall overlooks Kingston College to the south on North Street.

Holy Trinity, formed in 1953 entered the Manning Cup competition in 1997. Ever since, they have been playing their home games at the Alpha Institute on South Camp Road, Breezy Castle down by the seaside, Santos in Rollington Town and even as far as Barbican.

“The Sports Management Committee is excited to announce that the school have received the ISSA approval to host football games today,” said a statement from the school.

“Hence, we will be hosting our first Manning Cup match on our school’s playing field, Saturday, October 5, 2024, playing St George’s College,” it continued. “This is a historic moment for our school, and we have worked hard to prepare the playing field to meet ISSA standards.”

Holy Trinity sit third in Zone G on four points from five games and they play a red-hot St George’s team that have won five of their six games to be on 16 points. St Catherine High are second on 13 points.

Holy Trinity has been in transition this season under new coach Delano Campbell but they did make an impression years ago, reaching the inaugural 2014 All-Island Lime Super Cup final, now known as the Champion Cup, losing 0-2 to Jamaica College and again reaching the quarterfinal in 2018. In 2016, Holy Trinity also reached the semi-final of the Manning Cup for the first time in their history and again in 2017.