SAFA Owes Second Division $500K Cape Town Stadium Seeks Anchor Tenant NagaWorld To Kit Cambodian Athletes Africa Ball Manufacturer Scoring Big Kenya Seeks World Cup Qualifier Funding Uganda Disbands Rival Football Leagues Cape Town's Liverpool Friendly Canceled Globacom To Sponsor Nigerian League Football Notes South Africa's 2014 Qualifer Moved
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South African FA Owes Second Division Clubs More Than $500K For Last Season05 / 22 / 13The South African FA "allegedly owes second division clubs" close to R5M ($524,000) for the '12-13 season, according to Sello Rabothata of SOWETAN LIVE. Though it "has been at pains to tell all and sundry that it is in a healthy financial position," the association owes all 144 second division clubs... |
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Cape Town Stadium Seeks Anchor Tenant
Cape Town Councilor Grant Pascoe said that the city is "hoping to attract sport teams and nightclubs to the rarely used, loss-making stadium it built" for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, according to Chris Spillane of BLOOMBERG. Spillane: “We are looking at an anchor tenant, which will be one of ...
Tags: Facilities, Africa
NagaWorld To Kit Cambodian Athletes
Entertainment and gaming sector firm NagaWorld "will sponsor off-the-field apparel for the entire Cambodian contingent" during the forthcoming 27th Southeast Asian Games in Myanmar beginning Dec. 11, according to H.S. Manjunath of the PHNOM PENH POST. The sponsorship this year "will include out ...
Tags: Marketing and Sponsorship, Africa
Africa Ball Manufacturer Scoring Big
In "football-obsessed" Kenya, like much of Africa, the game "is more than just a sport for the laborers inside this brightly lit workshop on the outskirts of Nairobi, football is also serious business," according to Teo Kermeliotis of CNN. Surrounded by Arsenal and Liverpool team posters on either ...
Tags: Africa
Kenya Seeks World Cup Qualifier Funding
Football Kenya Federation has made an appeal for at least 200M shillings ($2.39M) "to support the Harambee Stars (national team) and enable them to fulfil this year's fixtures, including World Cup qualifiers," according to Mark Baber of INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL. The Harambee Stars are due to play Ghana ...
Tags: International Football, Africa
Uganda Disbands Rival Football Leagues
The Ugandan Cabinet on Wednesday "resolved to step into the dispute between the Federation of Uganda FA (FUFA) and the Uganda Super League Ltd. and disband the two national leagues (FSL and USL) in favour of a new Uganda Premier League," which will kick off at the start of the '13-14 season, accordi ...
Tags: International Football, Africa
Cape Town's Liverpool Friendly Canceled
South Africa's Premier Soccer League has stopped one of its clubs from playing a prestige friendly against Liverpool this month because "it would take publicity away from the country's cup final," according to Mark Gleeson of REUTERS. Ajax Cape Town has "been refused permission by the league to play ...
Globacom To Sponsor Nigerian League
Telecom company Globacom has agreed to a 1.9B naira ($12M) sponsorship deal with the Nigeria Premier League, according to SUN NEWS ONLINE. The deal, announced at the Mike Adenuga Towers in Lagos, will run "for the next three years." In the breakdown of the package, the league would receive the ...
Tags: Marketing and Sponsorship, Africa
Football Notes
Real Madrid footballer Michael Essien "has invited the whole Real Madrid team" and its coach José Mourinho to a charity game June 8 in Accra, Ghana, Essien's home country. Essien is behind the Game of Hope and Inspiration, "in which African players will play against the rest of the world." So ...
Tags: Africa, International Football
South Africa's 2014 Qualifer Moved
South Africa's 2014 World Cup qualifier against Central African Republic "has been moved to a neutral venue in the Cameroonian capital, Yaounde" on June 9, according to the BBC. The South African FA had asked FIFA and the Confederation of African Football for the move "due to the ongoing ...
Tags: Events and Attractions, Africa
Monaco Plans Legal Action
Ligue 2 club Monaco plans to "take legal action against a French football league edict" that it must move its headquarters to France, ending tax exemption for the club's players, according to Julien Prerot of REUTERS. In a statement on Sunday, Monaco "accused French football authoriti ...
Tags: International Football, Europe, Africa
