BPL moves towards curbing financial rot

Friday, November 30, 2018

Botswana hopes La Liga will offer the solution PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

The Botswana Premier League (BPL) has taken a giant step in its efforts to curb the dire financial environment in the league. In April, the BPL turned to La Liga in search of a strategy that would help keep struggling clubs afloat.

The BPL then sent a delegation to the Spanish capital, Madrid to meet the La Liga bosses on a four-day benchmarking trip. Following the trip, the two entities singed a Memorandum of Understanding that mulled the introduction of financial control measures in order to curb local football’s financial challenges.

This week, the 16 BPL clubs were drilled on the proposed economic control system by a team from the Spanish La Liga. The workshop targeted educating the local football bosses on topics such as marketing, sports projects and financial control.

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BPL moves towards curbing financial rot

The Botswana Premier League (BPL) has taken a giant step in its efforts to curb the dire financial environment in the league. In April, the BPL turned to La Liga in search of a strategy that would help keep struggling clubs afloat.