SCC Announces 2024 Football Schedule; League Teams will play 51 games in the CTHS Football Alliance

The Southern Connecticut Conference announced its 2024 football schedule (pdf) on Feb. 14.

The SCC is also part of the Connecticut High School Football Alliance along with five others leagues in the state (CCC, CTC, ECC, FCIAC and SWC). The Alliance also released its 2024 schedule. See Feb. 14 press release below.

101 teams representing six Connecticut high school football leagues will participate in the Connecticut High School Football Alliance, scheduling a total of 101 games for the upcoming 2024 season.

30 teams from the Central Connecticut Conference, 21 from the Southern Connecticut Conference, 16 from the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference, 14 from the Eastern Connecticut Conference, 12 from the South-West Conference, six from the Connecticut Technical Conference, along with one independent (Hartford Public) and one school from Rhode Island (Bishop Hendricken) will participate in Alliance games during the fall of 2024.

Representatives from each league participated in a scheduling meeting to develop the 2024 schedules.  All of the match ups consist of inter-conference contests, and will occur in weeks one (Sept. 13, 37 games) and three (Sept. 27, 43 games).   

There are also additional matchups in other weeks (2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 11) due to openings caused by league membership imbalances (odd number of teams, or openings caused by pre-existing Thanksgiving week matchups) or a need to find more competitive match-ups for teams that their individual leagues could not accommodate through their respective league schedules.

Teams that participate in Alliance games have reaped the benefits of competitive regular-season scheduling.   In 2023, all six state champions played at least one Alliance game during the regular season.   In fact, the top 16 teams in the final state high school polls were Alliance schools.

Since 2019, 34 Alliance teams (out of 40 total) have appeared in state championship games and have won 18 titles (won by 15 different schools representing the CCC, ECC, FCIAC, SCC and SWC) in those 20 contests.

History of the CT HS FB Alliance

  • This is the seventh year the Connecticut High School Football Alliance has scheduled football games.  Since 2017, the Alliance has scheduled 432 games.  
  • In the 2017 and 2018 seasons, the SCC, SWC and ECC scheduled a total of 80 games. In 2019, 99 games were scheduled with teams from the ECC, SCC, SWC, FCIAC and CCC.
  • After the cancellation of the 2020 football season, the Alliance returned in 2021 with 93 games played. The FCIAC (16-13, 552) had the best record among the leagues with the SCC (37-33, .539) and SWC (22-21, .512) following close behind. 
  • In 2022, the Alliance scheduled 89 games with the five leagues and five additional teams from the Connecticut Technical Conference joining.   
  • In 2023, the Alliance scheduled 88 games with six leagues.   The SWC had the best record (18-10), followed by the FCIAC (17-16), CTC (6-5), SCC (19-21), ECC (13-14), CCC (15-22). 
  • Since 2017, the SCC has played the most Alliance games (279; 153-126 record), followed by the SWC (191; 95-96 record). 

Connecticut High School Football Alliance 2024 Schedule

Week #1 – Sept. 13 (37 games)

Ledyard at Thames River co-op

Quinebaug Valley co-op at Plainfield

Sheehan at Griswold

Notre Dame-Fairfield at Windham

East Catholic at Bacon Academy

Northwest Catholic at Weston

Lewis Mills at Montville

Waterford at Foran

ATI co-op at New Fairfield

Bassick at Woodstock Academy

New London at Daniel Hand

Bullard Havens co-op at Bethel

Stratford at Northwest United co-op

Berlin at Branford

East Lyme at Joel Barlow

Brookfield at Jonathan Law

St. Joseph at North Haven

Platt Tech at Hillhouse

Cheshire at Darien

Bunnell at Xavier

Guilford at Fitch

Conard at Pomperaug

Fairfield Warde at Harding

Wilton at Masuk

Westhill at Wilbur Cross

NFA at Fairfield Ludlowe

Ridgefield at Hall

Danbury at Manchester

Newtown at Stamford

Trumbull at Notre Dame-West Haven

New Milford at Norwalk

Enfield at Bridgeport Central

Brien McMahon at New Britain

Hamden at Staples

New Canaan at Maloney

Southington at Fairfield Prep

Greenwich at West Haven

Week #2 – Sept. 20 (5 games)

Fitch at Cheshire

Guilford at Pomperaug

Hillhouse at Stratford

Bunnell at NFA

Masuk at Enfield

Week #3 – Sept. 27 (43 games)

Thames River co-op at New London

Stonington at Quinebaug Valley co-op

Wethersfield at Stratford

Glastonbury at Norwalk

Westhill at Farmington

Newington at Danbury

New Britain at Hamden

Maloney at Staples

Stamford at South Windsor

Harding at Brien McMahon

Notre Dame-West Haven at Fairfield Ludlowe

Fairfield Warde at NFA

Masuk at New Canaan

Darien at Windsor

Bassick at Bridgeport Central

Fairfield Prep at Trumbull

Newtown at Southington

Hall at West Haven

Enfield at Wilbur Cross

Bloomfield at St. Joseph

Sheehan at Killingly

Northwest United at Lewis Mills

Weston at Plainville

Tolland at Notre Dame-Fairfield

Joel Barlow at East Catholic

New Fairfield at Rocky Hill

Northwest Catholic at Foran

Bethel at E.O. Smith

Branford at East Lyme

Middletown at Bunnell

Daniel Hand at Berlin

Avon at ATI co-op

Jonathan Law at RHAM

North Haven at Platt

Conard at Hillhouse

Brookfield at Bullard Havens co-op

Fitch at Simsbury

Bristol Central at New Milford

Xavier at Manchester

Pomperaug at Bristol Eastern

Shelton at East Hartford

Hartford Public at Platt Tech

Bishop Hendricken (RI) at Greenwich

Week #4 – Oct. 4 (1 game)

Bassick at Hartford Public

Week #5 – Oct. 11 (3 games)

West Haven at NFA

Killingly at Guilford

Lyman Hall at New London

Week #6 – Oct. 18 (3 games)

North Haven at East Hartford

Plainfield at East Haven

Shelton at Newtown

Week #7 – Oct. 25 (2 games)

Bishop Hendricken (RI) at Fairfield Prep

Hartford Public at Branford

Week #8 – Nov. 1 (5 games)

Jonathan Law at New Fairfield

Foran at Weston

Bassick at Bethel

Joel Barlow at Killingly

East Lyme at Brookfield

Week #10 – Nov. 15 (1 game)

Hartford Public at Amity Regional

Week #11 – Nov. 22 (1 game)

Wilton at Xavier

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