FA Cup to start on February 10th

Male', MALDIVES -
Next season’s Football Association (FA) Cup is scheduled to kick off on 10th February and the deadline to participate is 23rd of January, says Football Association of Maldives (FAM).

FA Cup is open for all the clubs/associations registered under FAM and the tournament is regarded as the biggest in the season other than Dhivehi League. One major reason for clubs targeting FA Cup is the winner will get the chance to represent Maldives in the AFC Cup.

Second division champions All Youth Linkage (AYL) is already focusing on the FA Cup and last season’s best club Vyansa is also set their eye on the title New Radiant has won most of the time. New Radiant, the current title holder, has won FA Cup 10 times in its 20 year history and they won it three years in a row for two occasions.

VB Sports and Maziya who didn’t get the chance to appear in this year’s Cup Winner’s Cup will start the season from FA Cup.

Victory's B team resume practice

Male', MALDIVES - Victory’s B Team’s practice has been started today morning according to their Assistant Coach Ali Suzeyn. However, Ali Suzeyn also elaborated that the management is yet to decide on a date to resume the A team’s practices.

In a previous interview to maldivesoccer.com Suzeyn said that their practices would resume on the 10th of this month. Victory has so far managed to capture big names in to the club which is very different from their previous strategies is yet to finalise some of the agreements. Captian Imran Mohamed, Ismail Anil, Faisal (Katey), and Ibrahim Shiyam (Dhona)’s agreement is yet to be finalized.

Victory’s B team’s practices would resume under the instruction of Assistant coach Mufeed.