BFL seeks P5.2M sponsorship
remunerations and prize monies are likely to increase.
Although the league will resume without a title sponsor, the BFL, thanks to a certain resolution in their constitution, have at least amassed P14 million to run the league. “Currently, our focus is on the grants; we want to ensure that our teams are able to prepare and attend matches without fail.
For prize monies, our budget is P5.2 million which will be covering individual awards end of the season; but at the moment we don’t have it and we are looking for a sponsor or even a pool of sponsors for that subject.
I am confident that by the end of the season we would have found partners or sponsors for the prize money,” BFL CEO, Solomon Ramochotlhwane revealed.
In 2018, the Botswana Premier League ( BPL) management led by Thabo Ntshinogang ( CEO), introduced a new ticketing dispensation which allowed teams to source and sell tickets for their own home matches.
The new ticketing privilege was adopted after some teams complained that the companies that were contracted to sell tickets were failing to deliver.
The BFL, according Ramochotlhwane, have taken a decision to maintain the same approach ahead of the new season and further confirmed that spectators will be allowed back into the stadiums. “Clubs have been given the responsibility to sell their tickets, they have been entrusted to communicate with their fans on where they can find the tickets.
Spectators are allowed back into the stadiums and Botswana National Sports Commission ( BNSC) have allowed us to accommodate 50percent capacity of the stadium, for the stadiums without stands, we can only accommodate 20percent,” he said. The league will start on Saturday, featuring a block- buster encounter between two clubs with an impressive following, Extension Gunners hosts Township Rollers at the national stadium at night. But before the clash of the titans, Kweneng derby will see newly promoted sides, Mogoditshane Fighters and Masitaoka battle it out for the bragging rights.