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Waamo Football Stadium, in the key port city of Kismayo, some 500 kilometres south of the capital Mogadishu, which is being reconstructed under the FIFA Forward Project is expected to be completed before the end of the year, according to Somali Football Federation.

Somali Premier League is due to resume on Thursday 18 June 2020, after the country's most high profile sporting event was stopped on 18 March due to COVID-19 pandemic which caused enforced restrictions on all sport both in Somalia and elsewhere in the world.

Somali minister for youth and sports, Hon. Khadija Mohamed Diriye, SFF president Abdiqani Said Arab and his deputies, Ali Abdi Mohamed and Abdullahi Sheik Nor Ahmed, have sent a joint condolence message to Ocean Stars member Liban Abdiaziz on the death of his beloved father, Abdiaziz Abdullahi.

It is with great sadness that Somali Football Federation announces the death of former Ocean Stars goalie, instructor and current goalkeeping coach for Ocean Stars youth team, Abdiwali Olad Kanyare, who was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the town of Afgoye, 30 kilometres south of Mogadishu on Thursday…

Chairman of Elman Football Club, Abdirizak Farah Omar (Goroje) has today stepped aside as the club's boss after two years in office.

Somali Football Federation (SFF) is planning to organize an enormous prayer session for three football legends who died recently, SFF communications officer, announced.

Somalia has lost its most high profile football legend, Said Mohamed Duale, who passed away after a long illness. The late Duale who even after his death still holds the record as Somalia's best footballer in history, died in the city of Aden south Yemen on the 1st of April, 2020.

Members of Somalia's senior national football squad the Ocean Stars, have joined the FIFA-led global awareness initiatives to fight the spread of the killer disease COVID-19.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino, has written to the president of Somali Football Federation, Abdiqani Said Arab, to convey a message of condolence to the country, after the recent passing of football legend Abdulkadir Mohamed Farah.

FIFA has launched awareness-building initiatives to fight Covid-19 in collaboration with the World Health Organization, as the world football's ruling body is using its member associations to spread a five-step awareness messages throughout the world.

Somali Football Family has suffered from the first loss of life to Covid 19, as football legend, Abdulkadir Mohamed Farah, died of Corona virus, Somali Football Federation confirmed.

Somali Football Federation has closed down the training camp of Ocean Stars Youngsters to avoid Corona Virus risk. The U-16 Somali national squad, has been training at the National Technical Centre since late February in preparations for CECAFA U-16 championship scheduled to take place in Djibouti.

Mogadishu, March 19, 2020 - Somali Football Federation vice president for regional development, Abdullahi Sheik Nor Ahmed, accompanied by SFF executive committee member and the head of the technical committee, Abdisamad Sheik Qasim visited Somali U 16 squad at their training base in the National Technical…

Mogadishu, March 18, 2020 - Somalia will halt all sporting competitions in the country from Thursday, March 19, 2020, the minister for youth and sports, Honourable Khadija Mohamed Diriye, announced at a news conference.

Dar Es Salaam, March 11, 2020 - Auka Gecheo has been appointed as the new Executive director for the Council of East and Central Africa football Associations (CECAFA) after the long-serving General Secretary Nicholas Musonye has stepped aside.

Somali Football Federation has announced the date for this year's football development courses allocated for the Hir-Shabelle State.

On the occasion of the celebration of the International Women's Day, the president of Djibouti Football Federation (FDF) and CAF executive committee member, Souleiman Hassan Waberi, said he seeks equality in football announcing that equal opportunity for men and women in football is something he…

Nouakchott, March 5,2020 - The president of Djibouti football Federation, Souleiman Hassan Waberi and his Mauritanian counterpart Ahmed Yahya, both CAF Exco members on Thursday March 5, 2020, signed a partnership agreement aimed at boosting cooperation between both federations, after a meeting in Nouakchott.

Somali Football Federation has on Thursday concluded a two-day first aid in football workshop held for doctors of the national level football clubs in the country.

Somali Football Federation (SFF) held a two-day sports medicine workshop on 22-23 January at the SFF headquarters in Mogadishu.