The secretariat read to the AGM a detailed budgetary
statement and activity report for the 2017 which was unanimously approved by
the day-long Annual General meeting which took place at the Lido Sea Food village
in Lido beach resort of Mogadishu. The AGM also adopted the financial statement
plus activity plans for 2018. The AGM has also unanimously lauded for the introduction
of the first ever online financial management system together with a new external
auditor whose duties with the SFF will start from 2018.
New
Elite league Name.
The annual general meeting has approved the change of
name for the country’s top football league which will be called "SOMALI PREMIER
LEAGUE” with immediate effects as the AGM ends. Other key development schemes
approved by the AGM include:
·A new competition will be created for the top five sides of the Somali Premier League. The new competition is named Star League and the winner of the Star League will receive prize money of 5000 USD.
·Each of the Premier League Clubs must have its own youth team to be able to produce new young talents.
·The winners of the five regional football leagues in the country will be competing in the National Football League which is a new competition to be created in 2018.
·What is now known as the 2ndDivision League will take a new name as Division One football league.
·The
annual general meeting approved the creation of another new league which is
named Division Four League. This is part of SFF’s plans to create additional opportunities
for Somali youngsters.
Development
assistance for the nation’s football Clubs
The president of Somali Football Federation, Abdiqani
Said Arab, said that the SFF is intending to increase its development projects for
football clubs in the country in a bid to accelerate Somalia’s football
promotion. The development plans for the clubs include the increase of capacity
building administration workshops for the secretariat of all clubs” the
president said adding that the SFF will also fully equip the offices of the
country’s football clubs. The announcement has attracted a huge welcome from
club authorities and the entire football family of the country.
However, the annual general meeting also lauded for the announcement
by the Somali Football Federation president Abdiqani Said Arab that Somalia
will be able to invite foreign national teams to the country, as Mogadishu
prepares for hosting international matches for the first time since November
1990.
In the end of the annual general meeting, the chairmen of
all 25 National Football Clubs were awarded with certificates of honor for
their contribution to the development of the game.
Somali Football Federation Media Department
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