CC Meet drops Qualifying Rounds
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, May 26 2015 :
Qualifying Rounds of Churachand Singh Memorial Football Tournament (CC Meet) will be scraped from the ensuing 59th CC Meet 2015.The decision was taken in an Executive Council meeting of All Manipur Football Association (AMFA) held on Tuesday.
To improve the quality of CC Meet and reduce other inconveniences to the participating teams the EC meeting also decided to reduce the number of participating teams thereby the duration of tournament.
In addition, clubs relegated from Manipur State League (MSL) will no more be part of the prestigious tournament and only one top team of each of the Top Division Leagues of District Sports Associations (DSA)/District Football Associations (DFA) will be invited.
According to AMFA Top Division refers to the Super Division/1st Division of the District (where there is no Super Division) .
Other important decisions that will have an impact on the functioning of District Associations is that No State Clubs will be part of the Meet if the District Associations have failed to hold or complete the Top Division League of the year concerned.
Further, the meeting also decided not to entertained participation of teams in the name of District Teams.