Football Federation of Sri Lanka

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Football Federation of Sri Lanka
Former association logo of the Football Federation of Sri Lanka (until 2015)
founding April 3, 1939
FIFA accession 1952
AFC accession 1954
president Anura De Silva (since 2015)
National teams Men : national team ,
U-23 , U-20 , U-17
Women : national team ,
U-20 , U-17
Competitions Premier League , FA Cup
Seat Colombo , Sri Lanka

The Football Federation of Sri Lanka (abbreviated FFSL ; German  Sri Lankan Football Association ) is the national football association of the island state of Sri Lanka .

history

The association, based in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo , was founded on April 3, 1939 at the founding meeting in the Galle Face Hotel as Ceylon Football Association (CFA) and in 1952 at the 30th FIFA Congress in Lisbon (1950 is also incorrectly stated ) accepted into the world football association . In 1954 he joined the Asian continental association AFC , in 1997 the Football Federation of Sri Lanka was one of six founding members of the South Asian regional association SAFF, along with Bangladesh , India , the Maldives , Nepal and Pakistan .

The association organizes, among other things, the Sri Lanka Football Premier League and the Sri Lanka FA Cup . The men's national team has so far not qualified for a World Cup or an Asian Cup; the greatest success is winning the South Asian Championship in 1995 and second place in the AFC Challenge Cup 2006 . The women's national team reached the semi-finals of the South Asian Cup in 2012 and 2014 as the greatest successes to date . The only FFSL team that has ever participated in a continental championship is the men's U-19 selection . Between 1959 and 1986 she took part in a total of ten Asian championships in her age group; greatest achievement was reaching the quarterfinals of the best eight teams in 1967 .

Senate member Sir John Tarbat oversaw the newly formed association since April 1939, under the direction of CW Mackie Jr .; After the work of the Ceylon Football Association had almost come to a standstill during the Second World War, Capt. WT Brindley elected Association President. In May 2015, Anura De Silva took over the office of FFSL President from predecessor Ranjith Rodrigo .

The most famous football players that Sri Lanka produced in its history include Channa Ediri Bandanage and Weerarathne Jayasuriya Kasun Nadika , Peter Ranasinghe , Muzammil Hassimdeen and Mahinda Aluwihara .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Chris Hunt: FOOTBALL WORLDWIDE. German edition, translated by Harald Kaiser. BrunoMedia Buchverlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-9809607-4-9 , p. 156.
  3. ^ FIFA's 208 Member Associations. In: fifa.com (October 17, 2007), accessed on November 1, 2017 (English).
  4. ^ The FIFA Congress from past to present. In: fifa.com , accessed on November 1, 2017 (English), p. 22.
  5. ↑ Hafiz Marikar: Charting The History Of Football Association in Sri Lanka ( Part 1 and Part 2 ). In: thesundayleader.lk (December 6th and 13th, 2009), accessed on November 1st, 2017.
  6. ↑ Hafiz Marikar: Sri Lankan football and its origin. In: dailynews.lk (July 24, 2013), accessed on November 1, 2017.
  7. ↑ Anura De Silva elected Sri Lanka Football President. In: thepapare.com (May 24, 2015), accessed November 1, 2017 (English).
  8. ↑ Subhani Hassimdeen: Great Footballers of the past. In: sundaytimes.lk (June 1, 2014), accessed on November 1, 2017 (English).
  9. ↑ Subhani Hassimdeen: Legends of Sri Lanka soccer. In: sundaytimes.lk (June 15, 2014), accessed on November 1, 2017 (English).