Sri Lanka

However, now the beautiful game in the 'nation of the smiling people' has another reason to be optimistic: the election of Ranjith Rodrigo as President of the Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) last month. Formerly an aspiring footballer, Rodrigo ...

Rs 500 million received from FIFA to develop football grounds in Sri Lanka after the tsunami catastrophe has been misused and wasted, sources said. The funds had been obtained by the Galle Development Project Office, which operated as a separate unit ...

ZURICH - FIFA executive commitee member Vernon Manilal Fernando was banned from football for eight years Tuesday, though the governing body did not specify which ethics rules he broke. Fernando had been a close associate of Mohamed bin Hammam ...

The Sri Lanka Army football team will tour to Cambodia to rake part in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President's Cup today (4). This tournament which is played for the ninth consecutive year is organised by the AFC for emerging football clubs ...

FIFA President Joseph Sepp Blatter has assured a grant of US$ 1million to Sri Lanka for the development projects presented according to the media unit of Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL). According to the FFSL, Blatter had made assurance to the ...

The opening match of the tournament will between two of the most followed clubs in Sri Lanka -- Ratnam and Saunders which will be played at the City Football Complex in Colombo on May 4. According to a new development revealed by the Football ...

The ride starts on Saturday morning and ends on the bank holiday Monday after taking in 20 Kent football clubs, including Faversham, Whitstable and Herne Bay, and covering 200 miles. Nicky, 57, said: "I am really looking forward to seeing my old ...

With South Asia's top football event scheduled for September, Pakistan's preparations suffered a blow when a proposed tri-series involving fellow regional rivals India and Bangladesh in London was scrapped earlier this month after the organisers faced ...

They had in their ranks at least 4 players who were over 50 years and this former Sri Lanka player S A Weerasinghe, K S Priyantha and M Jamaldeen who despite their age played well. Vice President of Football Federation of Sri Lanka and retired DIG ...

Matara City Club held the strong Air Force team to a goalless draw at the German Sri Lanka friendship football grounds in Matara last evening. Both teams missed out on relatively easy opportunities to score and it was an achievement for the hosts who ...