Players and officials from the ten (10) football regions have arrived at the GFA's technical centre, Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence, ahead of the start of the 2024 KGL Foundation Inter-Regional U17 Colts Championship.
The delegations from Ashanti Region, Bono Ahafo Region, Western Region, Northern Region and Eastern Region were first to arrive on Thursday morning.
Later on Thursday July 25, 2024, delegations from Volta Region, Upper East Region, Greater Accra Region, Upper West Region and Central Region arrived to mark the commencement of activities for the 12-day juvenile football Championship.
The participants will undergo screening and orientation on Thursday July 25, ahead of the start of the Championship which kicks off on Friday, July 26, 2024.
Each participating team will receive fifty footballs, two sets of cones, two sets of bibs, and two sets of match jerseys by kind courtesy KGL Foundation.
In keeping with the policy of the Association to continuously encourage young talent, the Championships will be officiated by young referees selected from the GFA’s flagship “Catch Them Young” Refereeing policy. This initiative has nurtured hundreds of young, ambitious referees who have officiated at the second-tier level of Ghana football.
This is the Fourth Edition of the KGL Foundation Sponsored Inter-Regional U17 Colts Championship after previous events were held in Accra and Kumasi, and now back to the GFA Technical Centre at Prampram.
The KGL Foundation Inter-Regional U17 Colts Championship, launched in 2021, has been an avenue for talent discovery for clubs, particularly Premier and Division One League clubs, with several players being beneficiaries of the esteemed competition.
The ten Regional Football Associations have selected the best U17 players from their Colts competitions to represent their regions in this year's edition.
It would be recalled that the Ghana Football Association, in October 2021, announced the KGL Foundation as Colts (Juvenile) League sponsors in a landmark sponsorship valued at One million United States dollars covering a period of five (5) years.
GFA Communications