Involving more than hundred school teams, a record in the history of Nepalese football, the All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) is organizing the Coca Cola Inter School Football Tournament from May 29- 14 June here in Kathmandu.
ANFA will organize the tournament in various football grounds. In a press meet organized by ANFA today, ANFA President Ganesh Thapa pointed out the participation is the highest ever and was pleased with the football vibes among the youths in the participating schools.
The top twelve teams after playing a knock-out-basis tournament will again play in a league-cum-knockout stage to vie for 200,000 winning purse. The runners-up will clinch 100,000 and the 3rd and 4th placed teams will get 50,000 and 25,000 each.
“Our main target are the school,” ANFA President Thapa said and added “We hope for more colts playing football in the country after this tournament”.
Bottlers Nepal is the main sponsor provides 0.8 million rupees alone.