A big league for Ethiopian soccer

A new soccer league season comprising 27 sides kicks-off today at Addis Ababa stadium.

Following the National Football Federation national assembly’s over throwing off former EFF president Dr Asheber, the newly elected executive body announced that a new league including both the runaway teams and those that have been competing this season has been launched. All are now under one big umbrella that brings together twenty seven clubs and ready for a one round league season fixture that takes from eight to ten weeks.
EFF vice president Ato Teka Asfaw stated that it took a lengthy discussion with concerned clubs to reach to the ground breaking agreement which culminated in a win- win situation for all partners.

According to the new format the already nine fixtures old 14 clubs tournament resumes as of today adding the thirteen run away clubs to the total of twenty seven. Those already in action are to play seventeen matches each while the run away clubs play twenty six matches apiece. At the end of the tournament the first fourteen clubs plus two others promoted from the national league form a sixteen clubs’ 2001 Ethiopian premier league season. The remaining thirteen clubs go down to join the national league for the new season.

Source: The Capital Newspaper
http://www.capitalethiopia.com/archive/2008/february/sport.htm