National Soccer League

The decision was made after a meeting with the PNG Football Association Emergency Committee and the NSL interim committee.

The Emergency Committee had decided to defer the kick off date from 18 February to 29 April due to two reasons:

1)         Participation of Lae City Dwellers and Madang FC in the OFC Champions League.

2)         Participation of the PNG senior men’s national team in the FIFA World Cup qualifier.

The PNGFA Emergency Committee stated that Lae City Dwellers and Madang FC have confirmed their participation in the NSL this season.

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The Besta qualifiers is an annual tournament that is run in the Momase region to identify the top male and female member associations to represent Momase in the Besta PNG Football Association (PNGFA) Member Associations finals in Lae in November this year.

The qualifiers will be be held in Madang at Laiwaden oval from August, 10-14.

The Local Organising Committee (LOC) is putting together plans for the tournament with a fundraising drive to host the tournament. 

Twenty-five players have been called in for the camp in Port Moresby to prepare for the Oceania Football Confederation Nations Cup starting in May.

PNG coach Flemming Serritslev said all players are selected from the National Soccer League and he has seen very good players emerge from this competition.

The team will play two friendly matches in Solomon Islands followed by three matches in South Korea as part of their lead-up preparation.

The final training camp will be in Moresby a week before the event.

Competition manager, Simon Koima made this appeal today to all clubs saying he did not want a repeat of what happened last year.

In the Southern Conference, Hekari United FC will take on FC POM in the midday game at 12:30pm while Erema Gulf FC will go up against Gigira Laitepo Utd in the main game of the day at 3pm.

On Sunday, the only match will be between Huawei PS Utd FC and PKA Rapatona at 3pm.

All three games will be played at the Bisini Grounds.

For the Northern Conference games, the Sir Ignatius Kilage stadium in Lae will host two games.

The event was witnessed by franchise clubs, sponsors, PNG Football Association, Sports Federation officials and government officials.

When launching the season, NSL chairman Isaac Lupari thanked the participating clubs, franchise owners and Telikom PNG for the support.

Lupari said it had not been an easy journey for NSL in the last 12 years.

 "We hope that one day soccer will become the national sport in PNG as it is played throughout the country by all ages and gender," said Lupari.

MFC coach Bob Morris says the boys are doing well in training, and executing all the training patterns that were taught to them.

Morris says their first game is against his former  team Besta United and looking forward to giving them a run for their money.

He also says that the final line up for the game will be named tomorrow and the team will prepare to travel to Lae on Thursday to meet the Besta United on Saturday at Sir Ignatius Kilage Stadium.

2015 National Soccer League champions, Lae City Dwellers are making their debut at the OFC.

They are in Pool A with Auckland City FC from New Zealand, Amicale FC from Vanuatu, and the yet-to-be-determined Solomon Islands S-League winners.

Regulars at the OFC Champions League, Hekari are in Pool B with Team Wellington (New Zealand), Suva FA from Fiji and AS Lossi from New Caledonia.

In Pool C is Nadi FC from Fiji, AS Magenta from New Caledonia, AS Tefana from Tahiti and the OFC Champions League Preliminary winner.

TNSL board chairman Isaac Lupari confirmed that they will review that to make sure revenue that is generated is shared between the participating teams at the different venues.

Lupari said one of the reasons why they wanted to make sure that everybody went in free in past seasons is to get the people back to the game because soccer is a family game.

“We wanted the mums, dads and the kids get to get involved and support the sport,’’ he said.