Clubs told to embrace CAF's Licensing System

Apr 28, 2016

Africa is the biggest confederation in the world but is still regarded as the step-child of world football

CAF instructor Raymond Hack has called on Ugandan football administrators to embrace the Club Licensing System to help the game advance professionally.

Hack was addressing participants and journalists during the opening session of the two-day CAF Club Licensing seminar at Imperial Royale Hotel where he emphasized that the system was created to help African football develop.

"Africa is the biggest confederation in the world but is still regarded as the step-child of world football but the majority of players that are gracing world football in England, Germany, France, Belgium and all those European countries come from Africa,"

"CAF wants to ensure that we are able to take our place as the leaders of world football," Hack stated.

He said the licensing system has been put in place to improve the quality of football and to ensure the game is run as a business with each of the club officials assigned a role to play.

"We are also trying to ensure that clubs have proper infrastructure, proper knowledge and education in management and to have all this you got to have one important thing; good corporate governance based on procedures that have been adapted over a period of time and will work for everybody,"

 FUFA CEO Edgar Watson (sitted 2nd left), CAF instructors Nicholas Musonye, CAF's Raymond Hack, FUFA Second Vice President Darious Mugoya and Patrick Ogwel (2nd right) pose with some of the participants

He said the seminar will be carried out in three phases covering how to have and maintain infrastructure, the sporting criteria and the administration par which will cover areas like the legal framework, finance and corporate governance among others.

FUFA CEO Edgar Watson who is a moderator at the seminar said the CAF instructors were in the country to show clubs what they have to implement in order for them to be licensed not only locally but also in CAF competitions.

"The Club Licensing System is one tool that FIFA and CAF started to cover a world wide scope, mainly to improve on the integrity of competitions and also club development," Watson said.

He said Uganda started implementing the system in 2012 by including it in FUFA statutes but that there is need to learn more in order to achieve better results.

FUFA Second Vice President Darious Mugoye noted that despite the negative attitude of some club officials they had made strides regarding club licensing and urged participants to pass on the knowledge they pick from the seminar.

Sunday Kayun (Tanzania) and Nicholas Musonye (Kenya) are the other CAF instructors facilitating the course.

Participants at the two day seminar include Club Chief Executive Officers (CEO's), FSL Board members, Ministry of Education and Sports officials (National Council of Sports), Security operatives, stadium managers and FUFA Licensing Committee.

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