NFF educate club managers on CAF’s regulatory framework

The Nigeria Soccer Federation has organized a seminar for Basic Managers and Membership Licensing Managers of groups within the Nigeria Premier Soccer League and the Nigeria Girls Soccer League,with Nigeriasoccernet.com
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The seminar is geared toward briefing adequately the membership managers on the Confederation of African Soccer’s new regulatory framework for the Membership Licensing System and Stadium Laws.

The laws embody a recent version of the CAF Males’s Membership Licensing Laws, first-ever version of the CAF Girls’s Membership Licensing Laws, a recent CAF Membership Licensing High quality Customary, a devoted CAF Membership Licensing Catalogue of Sanctions and a recent CAF Stadium Laws.

Contained in the Convention Room of the NFF/FIFA Purpose Mission facility of the Moshood Abiola Nationwide Stadium, the Membership Licensing Unit of the NFF took contributors by means of the frameworks, laws and necessities that strengthen the Membership Licensing System for women and men’s soccer for continental and home competitions, outline the minimal requirements that Member Associations or affiliated Leagues (as Licensors) should adjust to so as to function the Membership Licensing System, set up a categorization of stadium technical necessities per kind of CAF Competitors and set out sanctions to be utilized for lack of correct implementation by Member Associations.

The modifications embody: 1) CAF has moved away from the A, B and C sorts of standards. Beneath the CAF Males’s Membership Licensing Laws (version 2022), two sorts of standards are launched: continental and home standards. ‘Continental’ applies to Golf equipment collaborating in CAF Interclubs competitions and the ‘Home’ should be outlined by every MA for his or her males’s prime tier competitors, respecting the minimal standards and necessities established within the CAF laws.

2) Licensors should now embody as a criterion, at a minimal of their prime tier males’s nationwide membership competitors, articles 26, 26, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 39, 40, 41, 42, 47, 48, 53, 54, 55, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 and 63 from the CAF Males’s Membership Licensing laws into their Nationwide Males’s Membership Licensing Laws, whereas adjusting the necessities in every criterion to the home competitors laws.

3) Enhancements have been made to areas akin to baby safety and welfare, medical care of gamers, ladies’s soccer groups, membership administrative positions and {qualifications}, and tighter deadlines for overdue payables.

4) There’s now a requirement for girls’s soccer groups, which signifies that golf equipment meaning to take part within the CAF Interclubs competitions will need to have a minimal one ladies’s first staff collaborating in a contest sanctioned by the Member Affiliation.

5) The aim of the CAF Stadium Laws is to outline the technical necessities to be met by stadiums to be used in soccer competitions beneath the auspices of CAF, with a view to offering the most effective situations for soccer follow, security, performance and luxury for gamers, followers and officers. The laws govern the minimal structural standards to be fulfilled by a stadium for it to be categorized (in ascending order) as CAF class 1, 2, 3 or 4 based mostly on the differing types, grades and classes of matches and championships.