CAF to conduct Club Licensing training workshop in Dar 

06May 2023
Joseph Mchekadona
DAR ES SALAAM
Sport
The Guardian
CAF to conduct Club Licensing training workshop in Dar 

TANZANIA will, at the end of this month, host the first Club Licensing Online Platform (CLOP) training workshop in Dar es Salaam.

Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) Director of Legal, Media, and Marketing Boniface Wambura

Boniface Wambura, Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) Director of Legal, Media, and Marketing, said the three-day training workshop will take place from May 22-24. 

The training program aims to ensure that the Club Licensing process is on track at the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Member Associations (MAs) level ahead of the upcoming 2023/24 CAF inter-club events' season.

"We will host the training program for Club Licensing Online Platform (CLOP) at the end of this month in Dar es Salaam," Wambura stated in his short response.

The online platform tool system has been designed to manage the licensing process and stadium inspection for continental and domestic competitions.

After the Tunisia workshop, CAF will host the training workshop in Tanzania and the other two MAs as announced in Tunisia last Wednesday when the confederation held its first CLOP training program.

Other MAs that are expected to host the CLOP training workshop are Benin and Angola.

The main objectives of the workshops are training MAs on the use of CLOP, updating on the implementation of CAF Club Licensing regulations (2022) edition, and ensuring that the Club Licensing process is on track at the MAs level ahead of next season's inter-club competitions.

"The Member Associations as licensors will use the CAF Club Licensing Online Platform to operate their licensing system every season and the clubs will also be submitting the required information through the system," CAF revealed on its website. 

CAF said it will use the opportunity to engage and provide CLOP training to local clubs in the host nation.

The continental football governing body said this initiative is in line to accelerate the implementation and use of the CLOP in the African football landscape, starting with CAF inter-club competitions.

The confederation introduced CLOP in July last year and the project is regarded as a tool for developing professional football in Africa and raising the standard of clubs and competitions. 

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