The much-anticipated Champions Cup will not be played this season, as the organiser InterSecondary School Sports Association, said after long and careful consideration, they decided to cancel the competition.

“We wish to inform you that, after careful consideration, the Inter Secondary Schools Association, along with its stakeholders have taken a decision to not stage this year’s Champions Cup competition. The decision was taken based on the complications of doing so at this time of the year,” said the ISSA statement on Sunday.

“We thank you for your support throughout the 2025 Schoolboy Football season. This was invaluable in helping us to successfully deliver our competitions under difficult circumstances while meeting our objective of fostering the wholesome development of our student athletes across the island,” said ISSA.

“We look forward to the staging of the 2026 staging of the ISSA Schoolboy Football Competitions, where together we will continue to provide an opportunity for excellence in school football, it added.

The Champions Cup is an all-island knockout tournament played amongst the top four teams from the urban schools and the top four from the rural schools.

The Champions Cup is the latest of the ISSA competitions, which was started in 2014 as the Flow Super Cup and was won by Jamaica College.
But over the years and change of sponsors, it was renamed ISSA Champions Cup. Jamaica College (2014, 2022), Kingston College (2017, 2019) and defending champions Glenmuir High (2023, 2024) are the most successful schools with two titles each.

Other winners are St George’s College (2015), Wolmer’s Boys (2016), the first rural winners, Cornwall College (2018) and Clarendon College (2021). There was no competition in 2020, and now in 2025.