Namibia FA announce free entry for Africa Women's Championship matches

The Namibia Football Association (NFA) has announced that entrance to all the African Women Championship matches will be free to the public as they want to boost support for the home side with Ghana in the competition. 

The Brave Gladiators go into battle with seven other African teams for the bragging rights of the women football on the continent.

Other teams taking part in the biennial competition are Algeria, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia.

Namibia is drawn in Group A up against Zambia, Nigeria and Cote d’Ivoire. While Group B - dubbed the group of death ? consists of Algeria, Ghana, Cameroon, and South Africa.

NFA Secretary-General, Barry Rukoro, earlier made the announcement while the football body presenting the CAF Women Championship Trophy to the main sponsor TN Mobile.

Mobile operator TN Mobile has partnered with CAF as the title sponsor of the African Women Championship, in an agreement worth around $600,000.

TN Mobile is one of two mobile operators in Namibia, and is the subsidiary of national telecommunications operator, Telecom Namibia.

Tickets can be collected at the NFA Football House in Windhoek or at Computicket outlets in Checkers and Shoprite retailers countrywide. There will be new tickets for every game, and the general public should get their tickets before each game, Rukoro said.

Rukoro had remarked that: “We are busy talking to school principals because we want them to engage the youth to come to the stadiums and support the teams. Some of the Brave Gladiators are working in the different Namibian forces (military and police), and it will be very nice to see a stadium packed by people from the law enforcement agencies supporting the colleagues.”

The CAF Women Championship is a biennial competition in women’s football for national teams on the continent, and has served as a qualifying tournament for the FIFA Women’s World Cup every other year since its inception in 1991.

The top three teams by the end of the competition are going to represent Africa at the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada.