Kenya is one of the countries attending the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Club Licensing Online Platform ‘’CLOP’’ workshop in Tanzania, the third regional event dedicated to English-speaking Member Associations of the continental body.The platform was launched in July last year during the CAF Club Licensing Seminar held in Cairo, Egypt, a system that the Member Associations will use to operate their licensing system every season.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.Apart from the host Tanzania and Kenya, the other countries who are attending the event that started on Monday are Ethiopia, Egypt, Libya, Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, South Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia, Uganda, Rwanda, and Zanzibar as a guest.##NAJAVA_MECA_7277163##Football Kenya Federation (FKF) head of Leagues and Competitions Doreen Nabwire is in Dar es Salaam for the event that runs throughout the week.While giving the welcome remarks on Monday, Tanzania Football Federation president Wallace Karia said that the platform will help professionalize the leagues faster starting at the club level.”CAF has launched the Club Licensing Online Platform, a system that allows CAF and the federations to manage the process of club licensing and stadium inspections fully online and electronically. This is a great step forward in the club licensing system in Africa, which allows us to achieve more quickly the professionalization of our competitions and clubs at all levels. Tanzania is honoured to be hosting the third CAF CLOP workshop for representatives of the English-speaking Federations and we hope that you will find the sessions very interesting,” Karia said as quoted by CAF.What the CAF Club Licensing Online Platform will doCAF fifth Vice-President Kanizat Ibrahim backed Karia’s sentiments, adding that they count on the member associations to improve the competitions not only at the club level but also at the continental level.”CAF is looking always for new ways to develop and professionalize football in Africa, and you all play a key role in the implementation of such strategy at the domestic level. We count on your expertise in the Club Licensing are to improve the level our CAF Interclub competitions but also the national leagues,” Ibrahim said.The CAF CLOP regional workshops are integrated as part of the activity to accelerate the implementation and use of the CLOP by the member associations and clubs, starting with the CAF Interclub competitions.
