PRESIDENT of the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) Collis Gift has disclosed that his association will intensify plans for the staging of its year-end football tournament after they were given assurances by beverage giant Banks DIH of sponsorship commitment.

Speaking to Chronicle Sport, Gift said, “From the UDFA perspective we have our year-end tournament planned and it is scheduled to start November 29 and is expected to feature 16 teams from within the association.
It starts with the preliminaries where the teams will be divided into four groups and each team play each other on round robin basis and the top two teams in each group will advance to the knockout stage and the final is set for January 1, 2015.”
Speaking of the main sponsors Gift said, “We recently confirmed sponsorship from Banks DIH for the tournament. Later this week we expect to collect the documentation to formalise everything; but the verbal commitment was made by the Banks DIH officials because we did not only send them the year-end proposal, we sent them proposals for our league and another tournament following the league.”
He said based on the league format which will run for a period of time after starting in February, there will be a break, so that another tournament can be played, probably another knockout.
He said for now there will be full concentration on the year-end promotion.