Saudi Arabia launches first women’s soccer league
Riyadh – Saudi soccer officers on Saturday mentioned they’ll launch the primary version of a girls’s league later this month.
Girls’s sports activities have lengthy frowned upon in conservative Saudi Arabia.
However the Nov. 22 launch is a part of a program arrange by the Saudi Arabian Soccer Federation in 2017 to help girls’s soccer.
Based on the federation, the brand new girls’s league will likely be taking part in in two phases throughout the regional league.
Sixteen groups will participate within the first section with video games performed in three cities — the capital Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam.
Six groups from every area will play within the matches, excluding Dammam the place solely 4 groups will play.
Those that qualify will be capable to play in a knockout competitors on the Kingdom Last Championship as a result of be held early subsequent yr within the Purple Sea metropolis of Jeddah.
Federation chairman Yasser Almisehal mentioned the creation of a girls’s league was “an necessary second” for the federation.
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Saudi Arabia, girls’s soccer