THE Guyana Football Federation (GFF) president, Wayne Forde, on Thursday presented a cheque totalling twelve million and four hundred thousand dollars ($12.4M) to the GFF’s nine Regional Associations (RAs) for the staging of the 2023 Senior Men’s Leagues across Guyana.

Over the next few weeks, each RA will organise and kick off their Senior Men’s League, which is funded under the GFF’s Member Financial Assistance Programme (M-FAP), with a total of 104 football clubs across Guyana benefitting from this investment.

In a release to the media, the GFF noted that Mr Forde has been working closely with the RAs over the past four months to support their readiness for the 2023 season and build on the success of last year’s historic post COVID-19 return to play league commencement.

It added that, “M-FAP is important to the entire football fraternity. We have already seen the impact M-FAP has had on football in Guyana over the last three years. We recognised during the course of last year’s Regional Associations League that additional resources and funding were required, so this year we have answered that call by allocating more funds to each RA.”

Also present at the simple handing-over ceremony, which was held at the GFF Georgetown Secretariat, was Senior Men’s National Team Head Coach, Jamaal Shabazz, and GFF General Secretary, Ian Alves.