NFF Lectures Clubs On New CAF Club Licensing System And Stadium Regulations

The Nigeria Soccer Federation. NFF on Tuesday organized a seminar for Basic Managers and Membership Licensing Managers of groups within the Nigeria Premier Soccer League and the Nigeria Ladies Soccer League, with a view to briefing them adequately on the Confederation of African Soccer’s new regulatory framework for the Membership Licensing System and Stadium Rules.

The laws embrace a recent version of the CAF Males’s Membership Licensing Rules, first-ever version of the CAF Ladies’s Membership Licensing Rules, a recent CAF Membership Licensing High quality Commonplace, a devoted CAF Membership Licensing Catalogue of Sanctions and a recent CAF Stadium Rules.

Contained in the Convention Room of the NFF/FIFA Objective Undertaking facility of the Moshood Abiola Nationwide Stadium, the Membership Licensing Unit of the NFF took contributors by 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 with a purpose 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 adjustments embrace: 1) CAF has moved away from the A, B and C sorts of standards. Beneath the CAF Males’s Membership Licensing Rules (version 2022), two sorts of standards are launched: continental and home standards. ‘Continental’ applies to Golf equipment taking part in CAF Interclubs competitions and the ‘Home’ have to 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 embrace 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 Rules, whereas adjusting the necessities in every criterion to the home competitors laws.

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

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

5) The aim of the CAF Stadium Rules is to outline the technical necessities to be met by stadiums to be used in soccer competitions underneath the auspices of CAF, with a view to offering one of the best 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 different sorts, grades and classes of matches and championships.

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