240 youth players from 3 provinces in the Vanuatu Football Federation Southern Region zone are arriving in Port Vila this week for the VFF National Youth League Championship at Teouma.
VFF has zoned the 82 islands and 6 provinces of Vanuatu into 8 Member Associations and 2 conferences – Northern and Southern Region, and the tournament regulates a total of 640 players participating in the competition.
The Group B of the Southern Region boys and girls are Malampa, Shefa, Port Vila and Tafea Football Associations, and will play the preliminary stage of the Youth League Championship at the VFF Academy field from 20-22 November.
Each Member Association has registered 20 male and 20 female players in the U15 and U17 category.
Epi High School is representing Shefa Football Association have arrived in Port Vila on Wednesday 13th, and Malampa FA youth team arrived yesterday afternoon, all by standard and well equipped inter-island Ferries.
Tafea Academy team is arriving on Monday 18th before the tournament will kick off with a parade around Freswota suburb where the new FIFA funded VFF stadium is to be erected.
Vanuatu Football Federation has engaged schools to accommodate all the 160 boys and 160 girls with a total of 8 officials with mostly C License certification coaches and are trained teachers, accompanying the youths.
In Port Vila, VFF has organised land transport, food and other logistics to ensure players are in form to compete in the tournament and is crucial for the National Team coaches to assess players and select the next intake of the National Football Academy.
The Northern Region preliminary stage will be played from 25-27 November at the Luganville Soccer City Stadium.
Tournament Region
Region: Southern conference
Participating MAs: Malampa FA, Shefa FA, Port Vila FA, Tafea FA
Field: Teouma Academy
Total Number of Players: 320
Total Number of Officials: 8
