With successive football activities taking place in the small horn of Africa country, the Djibouti University Football club has secured its position in the country's top level league next year after knocking down Haji DiDie FC by 2-0 in the last match of the 2013 division B league over the weekend.

Horizon Djibouti FC has finished in the second place and both the University team and Horizon Djibouti will play in the country’s division A league next year. Djibouti University FC accumulated 40 points, while Horizon Djibouti FC left with 34 points from 18 matches played during the months-long competition.

 

A trophy plus 25 gold medals were presented to the players of Djibouti University for winning the trophy, while the second place team received a trophy and 25 silver medals for securing the second place and promoting to the division A league.

 

According to the past history of football in Djibouti, it was the first time that Djibouti FA organized the division A, Division B and Division C championships plus women’s tournament, youth competition and professional beach soccer championship in the same period.

 

Implementing such hard tasks throughout the country was part of the promises made by the current president Mr. Souleiman Hassan Waberi in his first post election address on the 10^th of November last year.

 

Meanwhile, the 3^rd division league and the women’s football tournament are still under way and are expected to complete by the end of the month. Also youth tournaments and schools competition are underway.

 

This is for the first time in history that Djibouti is holding such number of football competitions across the country. The competitions made the country the busiest ever as where ever you go in the country you can see competitions taking place. Both youths and elderly people including women are also talking about the different competitions at bars, on busses and elsewhere in the country. You can see this is something new to them.

 

Somali Football Federation Media Department