A three day club licensing training targeting the top tier men and women football clubs and national super league sides is ongoing in Nairobi.
The workshop being conducted by the Confederation of Africa Football ,Caf.
The training focuses on the CAF Club Licensing Online Platform (CLOP),.The attendees get comprehensive training on platform usage.
Presentations on the CAF Club Licensing regulatory framework (edition 2022) for both men’s and women’s categories, including explanations of the mandatory criteria for domestic and continental competitions also featured at the workshop.
After the conclusion of the premier league clubs’training ,24 representatives from FKF Women Premier League clubs and 32 representatives from FKF Women National Super League clubs will follow.
The training is being conducted by CAF CLOP Instructor Emmanuel Dasoberi, CAF CLOP Officer Hamza Sorouri, and CAF CLOP Expert Miguel Revera.
The CAF Club Licensing Online Platform (CLOP) is an electronic tool system designed to manage the licensing process and stadium inspections for continental and domestic competitions.
The Member Associations as licensors will use the CAF Club Licensing Online Platform to operate their licensing system every season. The system is extended to all the CAF national associations in order to be used for continental and domestic license type.
As part of its features, the CAF Club Licensing Online Platform:
Allows the Licensors to implement a fully automated and electronic club licensing process for continental and domestic competitions;
Facilitates smooth gathering and real-time visualization of the documents submitted by the licence applicants (clubs);
Enables CAF to monitor the licensing procedure not only for CAF Interclubs competitions but also for the national competitions;
Allows CAF to gather data (Benchmarking) about clubs in Africa;
Enables the running of stadium inspections missions for CAF and domestic competitions.
