Yesterday, the School Football League for Girls started in various provinces and cities of the Kingdom, as well as the General Championship of Schools of Public Education, which is held by the Ministry of Sports in cooperation with the Ministry of Education as part of the School League project.
There are 48,324 women’s school league competitions, representing 4,768 teams from 1,906 schools.
The general championship competition will last until October 25, followed by the regional championships on the 26th of the same month, which will last until November 7 next year, and then the Kingdom Elite Championship will be held from the 4th to the 15th. next December.
Ali Al-Shaylan, member of the High Committee of the School League, President of the Saudi Arabian School Sports Federation, said: “We were delighted to launch the first edition of the School League for Girls under the School League project implemented by the Ministry of Sports and Education following the success of the last three editions of the School League for boys. This success motivates everyone from education departments and schools to put in more effort and work to make the school league for girls a success.
Al-Shuaylan stressed that the joint school league project between the ministries of sports and education has made a great contribution to the development of school sports in public schools, noting that all teams working in this national sports project draw strength, determination and challenge from the directive and follow-up His Royal Highness Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Faisal, Minister of Sports From His Excellency Minister of Education Yousef bin Abdullah Al Bunyan to develop sports talent in schools and promote sports competition in line with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, which celebrates the significant development of schools in aspects of the qualification of female teachers in the training and refereeing of football teams, as well as in the administrative organization of matches, after the Saudi Arabian Federation conducted qualification courses for school sports with several bodies in various regions for female teachers.