The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) on Friday revealed that season two of the Stag Elite League will kick off on Sunday November 13 following ‘thorough consultations.’
GFF President Wayne Forde
This edition will see the number of teams increased from eight to 10 but was objected to with the GFF saying that the “Executive Committee has the authority to modify the Competition Regulations and would be entitled to add additional clubs with a purely sporting objective,” noting that it is their opinion that there was no contract.
The GFF also claims to have the issue of game day management being outsourced to the clubs that are venue owners with GFF justifying it by pointing out that “most venue-owning clubs have indicated a willingness to execute this activity; one is reviewing the proposal. The objective of this proposal is to allow clubs the opportunity to earn and reinvest the money in their growth and in other development programmes.”
According to a release from the GFF, the process used to determine the inclusion of the two additional clubs into the League was questioned and it was then explained that the selection had to be made from the three clubs that had already acquired their 2015/2016 club Licenses, and that demographics then guided the choice of a Linden club and an East ECD club. The two (2) additional clubs will therefore be retained for League 2016/2017.
President of the GFF, Wayne Forde indicated that the issue of having 25 players registered for the increased number of games was not an issue since the number of rounds was reduced.
It was asked how the GFF planned to execute the random drug testing of players.
It was also disclosed from the release that “a comprehensive Elite League Plan was then distributed to all of the Elite League Clubs on Friday September 2 for their perusal prior to a meeting being called to discuss same followed by an Elite League Planning Committee meeting which was then called and hosted by the GFF on Friday September 9 to discuss the draft Elite League Plan with all of the Elite League Clubs and the two proposed additional Clubs represented at this meeting.
