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The draw for AFCON U20 and AFCON U17 qualifiers of the CECAFA zone has been carried out in Nairobi on Wednesday afternoon.

The Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations [CECAFA] is emerging from10 months of inactivity due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which badly affected the region's football like elsewhere in the world, with two youthful competitions to be held before the end of the year.

The world football's ruling body FIFA, has awarded a field certificate to Mogadishu Stadium, the home of Ocean Stars, which has been re-launched more than three months ago to end its 16-year long nightmare.

Somali Football Federation's official website, has taken Somali Country Top Level Domain, as all members and staff have been instructed to use official domain emails, the SFF executive committee approved during its meeting on September 28, 2020.

Somali Football Federation has on Thursday, September, 3, concluded a week-long CAF level D coaching course for 30 new coaches under the auspice of Africa football's governing body CAF

Following its reopening by the end of June this year, Somalia's national football facility, Stadium Mogadishu, has opened its doors to the first official football league in 16 years.

Somali Football Federation has today, 30 August, released the fixtures for the 2020 edition of the country's Domestic Youth Football League.

As Somalia is preparing for international friendlies to be hosted in the home of Ocean Stars for the first time in three decades, four more new professionals have been included into the current Ocean Stars team list.

Somali Football Federation has termed the return of Ocean Stars home, as a big "leap forward" in the development of the game in the horn of African country which is recovering from decades of civil unrest.

The recent re-launch of Somalia's national football facility Stadium Mogadishu, has opened a new chapter in the football history of Somalia which used Djibouti as its home in three decades.

On Tuesday 30 June 2020, Horseed Sports Club, made a remarkable history after winning the first match played at Stadium Mogadishu in 16 years, with the club's chairman, Colonel Ahmed Mohamed, saying that the 2-1 victory over Mogadishu City Club, was a milestone.

Somalia's national football facility Stadium Mogadishu, has made a comeback on Tuesday, as the president of the federal republic of Somalia, His Excellency Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, has re-inaugurated the home of Ocean Stars, which hosted its first match after 16 years of inactivity.

The dark times of Stadium Mogadishu have come to an end and the long-awaited dreams are set to become true when the national facility hosts its first football match in 16 years next Tuesday as planned.

Less than 48 hours prior to the reopening of Stadium Mogadishu, the country's minister of sport Hon. Khadija Mohamed Diriye together with Somali Football Federation president Abdiqani Said Arab and senior VP, Ali Abdi Mohamed, held hours-long meeting at the facility to discuss the protocol and the…

Waamo Football Stadium, in the key port city of Kismayo, some 500 kilometres south of the capital Mogadishu, which is being reconstructed under the FIFA Forward Project is expected to be completed before the end of the year, according to Somali Football Federation.

Somali Premier League is due to resume on Thursday 18 June 2020, after the country's most high profile sporting event was stopped on 18 March due to COVID-19 pandemic which caused enforced restrictions on all sport both in Somalia and elsewhere in the world.

Somali minister for youth and sports, Hon. Khadija Mohamed Diriye, SFF president Abdiqani Said Arab and his deputies, Ali Abdi Mohamed and Abdullahi Sheik Nor Ahmed, have sent a joint condolence message to Ocean Stars member Liban Abdiaziz on the death of his beloved father, Abdiaziz Abdullahi.

Chairman of Elman Football Club, Abdirizak Farah Omar (Goroje) has today stepped aside as the club's boss after two years in office.

Somali Football Federation (SFF) is planning to organize an enormous prayer session for three football legends who died recently, SFF communications officer, announced.

Members of Somalia's senior national football squad the Ocean Stars, have joined the FIFA-led global awareness initiatives to fight the spread of the killer disease COVID-19.