South African Football Association

South African Football Association South African Football Association
founding	December 8, 1991
FIFA accession	1992
president	Kirsten Nematandani
National teams	National soccer team (men) National soccer team (women)
Homepage	www.safa.net

The South African Football Association ( English : South African Football Association , briefly SAFA ) is the Football Association in the Republic of South Africa . It is based in Johannesburg .

organization

SAFA organizes the South African national football teams for men and women as well as in the youth sector, as well as the league operations from the third, the Vodacom Promotional League , which is divided into nine regional leagues , to the fifth grade. Professional football is organized by the National Soccer League , which is a special organization belonging to the SAFA. The NSL operates as the Premier Soccer League and is divided into a first division, the Premier Division , and a second division, the First Division .

history

A football association with the current name was founded as early as 1882; it was later called the Football Association of South Africa and represented the white population group. He was a founding member of the CAF in 1957 , but was expelled due to apartheid shortly after it was founded. The FASA was also an official association in FIFA , but was suspended from this in 1964 and formally excluded in the 1970s.

The South African Soccer Federation had existed since 1951 , under whose roof various organizations of colored South Africans gathered.

The new SAFA came into being after the end of apartheid in 1991 from the process of merging the four previously independent associations, the Football Association of South Africa , the South African Soccer Association , the South African Soccer Federation and the South African National Football Association . SANFA was initially involved in the unification process, then withdrew, but also joined SAFA two years later. At the FIFA Congress in June 1992, the SAFA was reassigned to the world governing body, and only a month later there was the first international match against Cameroon .

Web links

• Homepage (English)
• History of South African football on the FIFA website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Constitution of the NSL ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , PDF available on the PSL website ( memento of the original from June 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , viewed June 5, 2009