Inter-Club Football from next month

ISLAMABAD: Around three thousand football clubs are to feature in the Inter-Club Championship that springs into action in every knock and corner of the country from April.

A Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) official Syed Sharafat Hussain Bokhari confirmed to The News that the ventures has been given final touches with the help and support of sponsors. “I am delighted to share this information with you that around three thousand clubs from all over the country would figures in the Inter-club Championship starting in April this year. We have almost scooped up eighty percent of sponsorship for the purpose and hopefully the event would be fully covered by sponsors. Our negotiations with other sponsors are under way.”

He said that it would be its kind of championship that would cost the federation around Rs 85 million. The News has also learnt that each of the districts affiliated with the PFF would be given a set amount to organize the inter district event. “We are in process of finalizing modalities of the Championship that is expected to set the base of future domestic football.”

The PFF has convened Congress meeting in Islamabad on March 26 to get approval of all the recent decisions taken by the Executive Committee.He however said that decision to hold inter-club competition has already been finalised.