The second Golden Gate Invitational brought Bay Area first responders to Glens Stadium for a soccer fundraiser benefiting the San Francisco Firefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation, with one date discrepancy worth noting for anyone tracking a return next year.

The second Golden Gate Invitational put Bay Area first responders on the soccer field at Glens Stadium, 620 Ave I on Treasure Island, for a fundraiser benefiting the San Francisco Firefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation. The useful calendar note: a public event listing for the tournament↗ (external source, opens in a new tab) gives Saturday, Aug. 15, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., while a post-event SF Glens SC post↗ (external source, opens in a new tab) confirms the tournament at Glens Stadium supporting the foundation. If this returns next year, check the organizer post before you block the day.

The format was a 7v7 charity tournament, with the listing billing it as a first-responder event hosted by SF Glens at its Treasure Island stadium. Food, drinks, live music and a jump house were advertised around the soccer, which is about the right level of fuss for this kind of thing: enough for families to hang around, not so much that the games become background noise.

The beneficiary, the San Francisco Firefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation↗ (external source, opens in a new tab), says it works on firefighter cancer prevention, screening, research support and health navigation. That is the part that makes the tournament more than department bragging rights.

Confirmed logistics from the materials reviewed: Glens Stadium, 620 Ave I, San Francisco; Saturday, Aug. 15; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; fundraiser for SFFCPF. Admission price, age restriction, final dollar total and nearest transit guidance were not listed in the sources reviewed. If you only had two hours, the smart play would have been late morning: enough round-robin traffic to see several teams, early enough to leave Treasure Island before the exit line got annoying.