One win away from se­cur­ing the Dig­i­cel Pro League 2015/16 cham­pi­onship and fresh from their Caribbean Foot­bal Union Club Cham­pi­onship 2016 crown­ing–re­peats from last sea­son–Cen­tral FC wants to com­plete the sea­son by suc­cess­ful­ly de­fend­ing the TT$100,000 "Win­ner take all" Dig­i­cel Pro Bowl.

Cen­tral, who de­feat­ed Mor­vant Cale­do­nia Unit­ed 4-1 in last sea­son's fi­nal, will be­gin their Pro Bowl de­fence against North East Stars af­ter the quar­ter­fi­nal draw was made at the VIP Lounge, Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, yes­ter­day.

Cen­tral (52 points) are sev­en points clear at the top of the league stand­ings, and a win on Sun­day over the same Stars at Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um, Mara­bel­la will hand coach Dale Saun­ders' men the DPL 2015/16 crown with two games to spare ahead of their Pro Bowl en­counter two days lat­er at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va from 8pm.

"We want to fill our tro­phy cab­i­net like oth­er teams," said Cen­tral FC goal­keep­er Jan-Michael Williams. "Yes, we would like to top off the sea­son with the Pro Bowl. Win­ning the Caribbean Club Cham­pi­onship showed us that we can ac­tu­al­ly de­fend ti­tles. I be­lieve we have un­der­achieved this sea­son af­ter win­ning sev­en ti­tles (four of them ma­jor ones) last sea­son. Now we want to se­cure the league ti­tle by Sun­day and then move on to the Pro Bowl."

In oth­er match­es on Tues­day, four-time cham­pi­ons W Con­nec­tion face Po­lice FC from 6pm at Cou­va while in a dou­ble-head­er at Mu­cu­rapo, St Ann's Rangers will meet two-time (2005& 2006) cham­pi­ons San Juan Jabloteh from 7pm be­fore 2012 cham­pi­ons De­fence Force take on re­cent­ly crowned Lu­cozade Sport Goal Shield cham­pi­ons Mor­vant Cale­do­nia Unit­ed from 9pm. Cale­do­nia won the Pro Bowl in 2008.

The se­mi-fi­nal round and fi­nal are sched­uled for May 13 and 20, re­spec­tive­ly.

North East Stars cap­tain and util­i­ty play­er An­tho­ny Wolfe is­sued a warn­ing to Cen­tral FC dur­ing Tues­day's launch, when he said, "some­times the hand that once served you comes back to bite you as well", in re­la­tion to the "Cou­va Sharks"' sack­ing of coach Ross Rus­sell last De­cem­ber.

Rus­sell has since then joined North East Stars who are cur­rent­ly on a sev­en-match win­ning streak in the DPL, and are one of five teams vy­ing to oc­cu­py the two CON­CA­CAF Cham­pi­ons League qual­i­fy­ing spots by fin­ish­ing in the top two in the league.

Wolfe, a for­mer Cen­tral cap­tain and for­ward, added, "Cen­tral have to wait a bit longer [to cel­e­brat­ing the league ti­tle]. By stop­ping them on Sun­day (in the league) it will make it a bit eas­i­er for us on Tues­day (in the Pro Bowl quar­ter-fi­nals)."

Wolfe said fin­ish­ing sec­ond in the league and win­ning the Pro Bowl is the fo­cus of North East Stars, a team he con­sid­ers ea­ger to achieve.

Speak­ing dur­ing the launch of the Dig­i­cel Pro Bowl–the fi­nal tour­na­ment on the Pro League cal­en­dar–TT Pro League chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer Dex­ter Skeene re­mind­ed all that with the right mind-set and at­ti­tude the sky is the lim­it at the League.

Pro Bowl fix­tures:

Quar­ter­fi­nal Round

Tues­day

Venue: Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va

W Con­nec­tion vs Po­lice FC (D) 6 pm

Cen­tral FC vs North East Stars (A) 8 pm

Venue: Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo

St Ann's Rangers vs San Juan Jabloteh (C) 7 pm

De­fence Force vs Mor­vant Cale­do­nia Unit­ed (B) 9 pm

Dig­i­cel Pro Bowl 2016 Se­mi-Fi­nals

May 13: Ato Boldon Sta­di­um

A vs D

B vs C

Fi­nal

May 20: Ato Boldon Sta­di­um