Guinea Bissau clubs get financial support

The Football Federation of Guinea Bissau has decided to give each of the thirty eight clubs in the top-flight and second-tier leagues approximately $3,190 amid the corona virus pandemic.  There are fourteen clubs in the top division and twenty four clubs in the second-tier.

The financial aid is to help clubs in this crucial moment as the country battles the Covid-19 pandemic with Federation President Manuel Nascimiento Lopes and the executive committee trying to hard to help the clubs.

The Campeonato Nacional da Guiné-Bissau has been struggling with financial difficulties and the league was abandoned in round seven of the 2016 season after clubs complained of a lack of cash to play their games. The federation could not help the clubs then. The league has no sponsorship.

No club from Guinea Bissau has ever qualified for either the CAF Champions League or Confederations Cup.

In 2017 the senior national team qualified for the African Cup of Nations, its first major tournament but failed to make a meaningful impact there.

Mustapha Hadji