A record number of teams will contest this year's annual York Cup and Kim Small Shield at Tamworth.
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Fifty teams will take part in the girls and boys event for under-11 teams, now in its 17th year, after 49 competed last year.
The action gets under way at the Dome on Friday morning, with it concluding outdoors on Saturday.
Graeme McKenzie, the event's convener, said the scope of the tournaments was limited by the available facilities.
But that would change, he said, with the upcoming construction of a third outdoor field.
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The project will be officially unveiled at a press conference on Saturday.
McKenzie described the pending project as "absolutely fantastic".
Teams from NSW and the ACT will compete this year, but McKenzie is hopeful to expand the event beyond those areas in the future.
"That [the new field] will allow us to grow it even further now," he said.