AN exhibition to celebrate 100 years of the Jersey Football Association is to be staged in St Helier.

On the Ball will be presented by the Jersey Heritage Trust at the Jersey Archive in Clarence Road from next Tuesday.

It will cover all aspects of football life in Jersey, including the Muratti Vase competition, famous players the Island has produced and a history of clubs and club competitions.

It will include objects, memorabilia and photographs from the JFA, the Société Jersiaise, the Trust collections and the Jersey Evening Post.

On show will be information panels exploring the history of the Muratti Vase, competitions played for by domestic clubs and inter-insular club competitions such as the Upton Park Trophy.

It will also feature great Muratti players of the past and information on clubs that compete in Island football today.

A star object will be a cap awarded to a player in the first Muratti in 1905.

There will also be trophies from the collections of Jersey Heritage Trust, the JFA and one of the oldest and most successful club sides in Jersey football, Jersey Wanderers.

These include the Jackson Trophy, a league trophy that was awarded to Jersey Wanderers in 1931 after they had won it for the third time, an early Charity Cup, the Cutler Trophy and the Jersey Cot Trophy that used to be played for between Jersey and the Southampton Docks and Marine XI in the 1920s and 1930s.

Also on show will be a variety of medals and also memorabilia given to the JFA by visiting professional sides.

Said JFA county secretary Gill Morgan: ‘It’s the JFA centenary year and we’re delighted to have the chance to showcase the last 100 years of football in Jersey.

‘The history of football is quite fascinating, and to see how it has evolved and developed through the years should prove of great interest not only to the football connoisseur but also to those whose friends and relations have been involved in local football.

Football threads itself through many facets of Island life and we are grateful to the archivist Stuart Nicolle and his colleagues for putting this exhibition together.

We hope the public will respond by coming to visit’.

Nicolle added: ‘Football has played a major part in the local community and it is important that this aspect of social history is commemorated.’ On the Ball will be open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9 am to 5 pm until 29 December.