Achievements

The council of East and Central Africa Football Associations [CECAFA] is very much pleased with the football progress in Somalia where the first live screened football match went on successfully today.

For the first time in Somalia's football history, the first football match in the country will be watched live this week.

The launch of the U-17 football tournament in Somalia is a very positive step taken towards the right direction and it is part of the Somali Football Federation's youth development program.

After his recent visit to the southern Juba land state of Somalia, the president of Somali Football Federation, Abdiqani Said Arab, has announced major regional football development programs.

After the long struggle by Somali Football Federation to get Stadium Mogadishu back into its hands, the president of the federal republic of Somalia, professor Hassan Sheik Mohamud, has now announced that AU troops will vacate the national facility, although he didn't mention which date.

Hundreds of Somali orphans at Turkey's Anatolia Boarding school have high hopes and expectations of becoming future national team members, as they marked the end of the first six months of formal football training sessions.

Somalia has put violence behind and there is a clear expectation in the country, where football is fully recovering from decades of conflicts and unrest.

The president of the Federal republic of Somalia, Professor Hassan Sheik Mohamud, has enthusiastically commended the world football's governing body [FIFA] for its role in the promotion of peace and football development in the country.

The Haringey-based Lordship Rec FC has shown a wonder at the London Children's football tournament after its U-12 Somali children won the Enfield council-organised football competition which gathered nearly hundred children's football teams from across London and surrounding areas, while Lordship…

There has been a colourful conclusion ceremony to the high level professional sports medicine workshop which has been under way at the Sahafi International Hotel in Mogadishu between 8-9 May 2013 with at least 45 medical volunteers including six women benefitting from the Somali Football Federation…

The Somali National U-20 football squad had spent some two historical weeks in the Eritrean capital Asmara in August 2010 during the CECAFA U-20 tourney for friendship and development held in Asmara August 14-28 2010.

The Somalia National U-17 Squad has defeated Qatar's Al-Shahania FC by two goals to nothing in a friendly match which took place at the club's own stadium in Doha on Monday evening

Somali Football Federation (SFF) has successfully concluded a ten-day long soccer competition for primary and intermediate Somali school children with Jaber Bin Hayan School Children winning the trophy on Monday afternoon.

The Somali National U 17 football squad has qualified for the second round of African youth qualifying match, after a hotly contested game between Kenyan-Somali youngsters ended in 0-0 draw on Saturday afternoon.

The Somali national U-17 squad has defeated its Kenyan counterpart by 3-1 in the first leg of CAF U-17 qualifying match at the Guled Stadium in Djibouti last Friday.