The South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) has decided to hold the first-ever Club Championship two months before staging the SAFF Championship next year.
The regional body, however, has decided to hold the Championship, the first of its kind, in September and the SAFF Championship in December.
The decision was taken at a meeting on the sidelines of the FIFA seminar on Member Associations’ Professionalism in Dubai on October 17 and 18, informed BFF general secretary Al Musabbir Sadi. All presidents of the SAFF members except the All Indian Football Federation president attended the seminar and were present at the SAFF meeting chaired by its president Kazi Salahuddin.
Though the meeting could not decide on the venue for the club tournament, it confirmed that the SAFF Championship would take place in between December 1 to 15 in India.
