The Liberia Football Association (LFA) has scrapped the 2019/2020 Orange national league due to the coronavirus pandemic. Also getting the chop is the Petro Trade Cup. The decision follows an emergency executive committee meeting on Monday 4 May, 2020.
The
executive committee’s consulted with all the clubs on the decisions made at the
Antoinette Tubman Stadium (ATS) on 5 May.
The
LFA decided that there will be no promotion and relegation of clubs at all
levels, including the third division and community leagues in all the 15
counties.
However,
playoffs will be used to decide the top four teams in the event of CAF
requesting for a representative in the CAF Champions League.
The
same format will also be used for the quarter-finalists in the Petro Trade Cup
when football activities were suspended on 17 March to determine Liberia’s
representative for the Caf Confederation Cup.
Contracts
for players and coaches that are still running with the respective clubs and
were due at the end of the 2019/20 season will have to start afresh. Clubs were
also mandated to produce financial reports from January to December 2019 and
January to December 2020.
LFA
President Mustapha Raji, Vice President Sekou Konneh, executive committee
members Beatrice Mamie Kpoto and Pawala Janyan; secretary-general Isaac
Montgomery, deputy secretary-general John Bonah, technical director Henry
Browne, legal and competitions director Benedict Yarsiah and women’s football
director Francis Tamba attended the meetings with the clubs.
First
division defending champions LPRC Oilers, LISCR FC, Mighty Barrolle, Freeport
FC, Monrovia Club Breweries, Small Town, Nimba FC, Bea Mountain, Watanga FC;
second division defending champions Barrack Young Controllers (BYC-II), Tony
FC, Muscat FC, Mighty Blue Angels, Gardnersville FC, Jubilee FC, Sandi FC,
Stages FC, Heaven Eleven and female division defending champions Earth Angels,
Blanco FC, Determine Girls, Senior Professionals, World Girls, Island Queens,
Professionals Sisters, Ambassador FC and Hippo FC attended the meetings.
