The Confederation of African Football (CAF) launched a Club Licensing Online Platform (CLOP) last week during the CAF Club Licensing Seminar in Cairo, Egypt, a system that the Member Associations will use to operate their licensing system every season.The platform will take club licensing in Africa to a new dimension by modernizing and standardizing the Club Licensing system, streamlining all information submitted by the clubs to the licensor, allowing CAF and Licensors to access all club license applications in a timely and safe matte, run stadium Inspection procedure, and ultimately providing efficient access to benchmarking analysis.CLOP is an electronic tool system designed to manage the licensing process and stadium inspections for continental and domestic competitions and will be extended to all the CAF national associations in order to be used for continental and domestic license types.CAF has launched an electronic tool that manages stadium inspections and the licensing process for CAF-endorsed and domestic competitions called the CAF launches Club Licensing Online Platform (CLOP)#OAFNews pic.twitter.com/W7nIrWxujl— Our African Football (@ourAfricanFooty) July 29, 2022 As part of its features, the CAF Club Licensing Online Platform allows the Licensors to implement a fully automated and electronic club licensing process for continental and domestic competitions.CLOP will also facilitate smooth gathering and real-time visualization of the documents submitted by the licence applicants (clubs) and will enable CAF to monitor the licensing procedure not only for CAF Interclubs competitions but also for the national competitions.In general, it will allow CAF to gather data about clubs in the continent as well as enable the running of stadium inspection missions for CAF and domestic competitions.All systems go for CAF annual Club Licensing seminarThe member associations will have the option to insert on CLOP their own criteria and requirements for a given national competition and utilizing the platform will enable the club licensing process to be more efficient for the clubs and all stakeholders involved in the process.The CAF CLOP will be the centralized location for the licensing application process for CAF Interclubs competitions and at minimum the national men´s top tier competitions of all the CAF member associations.
