150 teams to take part as Kaduna 5-a-side league kicks off Aug 8

Kaduna state government says the female segment of its proposed “Croc City 5-a-side Football For Peace League” will kick off on August 8.

Idris Nyam, the state’s commissioner of sports development, in a statement, said the 11-day tournament is billed to end on August 19.

Nyam also said the registration for the male category of the competition will be open until August 18.

The commissioner added that the qualifiers for zone one will start on August 26 and end on September 5, while the zone three qualifiers will be from September 12 to September 23.

According to him, the zone two qualifiers will begin on September 28 and end on October 12.

The event’s draws will hold on October 17, but the competition will start on October 24 and end on November 13.

“Our team went Zaria to inspect the Dogarawa stadium in Sabon Gari Local Government Area. Thereafter, they met with all the football coaches in Zone one and further intimated about the coming League,” Nyam said.

“They also visited the new Kafanchan stadium on July 19 to see the facilities, after which they visited the Chairman of Jema’a Local Government Area and the Administrator of Kafanchan Municipal Authority, both of whom promised to support the competition.”

The upcoming event will be the 2nd edition of the competition.

The first edition was held between October 4 to November 14, 2021, at the Ahmed Musa Neighbourhood Centre, Kaduna.

The commissioner said the league was held with 32 teams, 320 players participating, five referees, 64 match officials, an estimated 2,500 spectators and cash prizes worth N2,000,000 won.

In June, at the launching of the local organising committee for the 2022 event, Nyam had said this year’s edition “is designed on a larger scale to include 150 participating teams across the three senatorial districts.”