Pupils have paid tribute to a football-mad teacher by playing a memorial tournament in his honour.

Geoff Schofield, 57, died at his home in Low Moor earlier this year after more than 30 years' service to Bradford as a PE and IT teacher.

During his career he helped coach hundreds of young footballers from the city through the Bradford Schools Football Association.

Over the last 20 years he coached youngsters from under-11s to under-15s as well as working as a teacher at the former Pollard Park Middle School and most recently Challenge College in North Avenue.

Now his colleagues and former pupils at Challenge College have staged a five-a-side football tournament in his memory.

Pupils from St Bede's Catholic Grammar, Salts Grammar, Beckfoot, Thornton Grammar, Grange Technology College and Laisterdyke High School visited Challenge to compete for the Geoff Schofield Memorial Competition shield.

But fittingly the tournament was won by a team from Challenge College made up of boys from Mr Schofield's last-ever form group before he retired last year.

The event was organised by one of Mr Schofield's former colleagues, Geoff Mitchell, a learning mentor at Challenge College.

Mr Mitchell said: "This has been a fantastic opportunity for the students involved to show their respect and appreciation for all the work and time that Geoff put into football during his long career.

"It has been incredibly moving to think how Geoff would have enjoyed this tournament. We are so pleased that all the students demonstrated such enthusiasm, dedication and sportsmanship. Geoff would have been immensely proud to see it.

"He was a single man who had two passions in his life - golf and football.

"We thought a five-a-side tournament would be a great way to remember him and it is such a coincidence that a team from his last year group before he retired actually won it."

Malcolm Collins, chairman of the Bradford Schools Football Association, said Mr Schofield would be remembered by generations of footballers he helped to coach both for the schools FA and at the schools where he taught PE.

He said: "Geoff worked at an inner-city school and provided the chance to play sport after school where it hadn't existed before. Pupils were appreciative of someone who gave up their own time after school to allow them to play football."