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Diabugu Batapa Captures EU Access to Justice Trophy

Diabugu Batapa village in the Sandu District of Upper River Region were on Sunday crowned champions of the European Union sponsored Access to Justice Noran football tournament. The competition was...

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Caf Alters Format of Champions League and Confederation Cup

  The Champions League and Confederation Cup group stages will each double to 16 teams in 2017, the Confederation of African Football has revealed. In each competition, 16 clubs will be divided into...

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Further Suspension for Red Scorpions’ Officials

  The Gambia Football Federation (GFF) has suspended Red Scorpions coach, Chorro Mbenga and her assistant, Dodou Faye, for the 2016/17 season for their involvement in a violence marred Cup match last...

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80% Reduction in Accommodation Cost for National Football Teams Seaview Group...

Seaview Group, owner of Seaview Garden and Bamboo Hotels, has given an 80% reduction in terms of accommodation for all categories of the Gambia’s national football teams. The offer, which also applies...

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May Day Sports Banquet Held in Grand Style

    The May Day Sports Gala Dinner and Award was on Saturday night held in grand style at a local hotel in Kololi where workers including the Minister of Youth and Sports converged to wine and dine....

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U-20 Goes to Camp Ahead of Morocco Qualifier

    The Gambia U-20 side yesterday (Monday) went to camp at the Seaview Gardens Hotel Kololi in preparation for the first leg of the second round African Youth Championship qualifiers at home to...

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Gambia Organises Mass Volleyball at Dream Project Centres

  The Africa Dream Project has continued to shine in The Gambia since the implementation of the project in December 2014. An initiative of the International Volleyball Federation President, Dr Ary S....

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Africell Sponsors Euro 2016 on GRTS

    GSM service provider, Africell has reached an agreement with The Gambia Radio and Television Services to broadcast all 51 games of the Euro 2016 on the national broadcaster. A contract was signed...

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Kekuta Manneh Best to His Best

  Gambian striker Kekuta Manneh is getting back to his devastating best with a man of the match performance at the weekend. The past week proved to be a big one for his Vancouver Whitecaps thanks to...

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D30 Million LRR Artificial Football Pitch Ready for Use

  The construction of an artificial football pitch worth more than D30 million in the Lower River Region has been completed with the field ready for use. The project, a FIFA sponsored project under The...

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Volleyball Players Call on GNOC Boss

    The Gambia volleyball team that participated in the final round of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Qualifiers for Africa held in Nigeria and Tunisia on Wednesday paid a courtesy call on the officials of...

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Cricket Association Reaches Out to the Regions

    The Gambia Cricket Association recently embarked on a three-day cricket coaching clinics for students and a two-day introductory umpiring and scoring course for teachers in schools in the Central...

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U-20 Coach on Technical Preparations Ahead of Morocco Qualifier

  Omar Sise, head coach of The Gambia U-20 has said technical preparations for the African Youth Championship qualifier at home to Morocco on Saturday are going on normal, noting that the goal for his...

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Introducing Aziz: Gambia’s Fitness Model

by Bai Ebrahim Cham Gambian male fitness model, Aziz Ceesay, has stated that all he wants is to inspire people around the world about getting a good and healthy lifestyle. A rare trend to most African...

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Hits and Misses: Samger’s Dramatic League Failure

  It happened just eight years ago but today few people can remember what could be described as the most dramatic and interesting league in recent domestic Gambian football history. Samger was promoted...

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Real de Banjul Set for Golden Jubilee Celebrations

    Officials of Real de Banjul Football Club on Thursday held a press briefing as the team prepares to celebrate 50 years of existence. Speaking at the event, Willy Abraham, Club President disclosed...

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South Africa Names Squad to Face Gambia

  Bafana Bafana coach Ephraim ‘Shakes’ Mashaba has named a 23-man squad that will play Gambia in the penultimate Orange CAF Africa Cup of Nations Gabon 2017 qualifiers. This qualifier will also see the...

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Knife Attack Referee: Jama Njie Gets Police Bail

    One of the country’s best female referees Jama Njie has been granted police bail by the Bundung Police Station after she was arrested for allegedly attacking some under-fire Red Scorpions players...

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AYC 2017: DOMINANT GAMBIA SPANKS MOROCCO IN FIRST LEG

    It was a dominant performance from start to finish and was described by many as the best performance of any Gambian football team at any level for a very long time. Though the intensity dropped a...

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GPA Crowned 2016 League Champions!!

  With a game to go, Alhagie Sarr and charges are the champions of the GFF 2015/2016 first division domestic league season after a 2-2 draw with Serrekunda United at the Father Gough Sports Complex on...

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