Football Association of Maldives

Football Association of Maldives
AFC
Founded 1982
FIFA affiliation 1986
AFC affiliation 1984 (Associate member),[1] 1986
SAFF affiliation 1997
President Bassam Adeel Jaleel
Website fam.mv

The Football Association of Maldives (FAM) was founded in 1982 as the governing body of football in the Republic of Maldives. The association under the guidance of the Ministry of Youth & Sports is responsible for all regulatory aspects of the sport in the Maldives. In 1986, FAM became a member of AFC and FIFA[2] respectively.

For the full history, statistics and records of the senior team, see Maldives national football team.

Organization

The FAM has an Executive Committee of five members under the President, in addition to a Senior Vice President, Vice President and General Secretary. FAM is housed in FAM House in Malé, which was constructed with funding from FIFA "Goal" Project.

While FIFA and AFC required their members to constitute elected governance, FAM first had an appointed governance by the government of Maldives, which was reshuffled by the Ministry of Youth in the last quarter of 2006, in association with the political changes President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom brought about. FAM was audited by the Audit Office (during the same period, i.e. late 2006) of the Republic of Maldives and the association was accused with embezzlement of funds. However, the Chairman Mr. Abdul Shukoor was not dismissed and the General Secretary Mr. Ibrahim Ismail Ali was transferred to a post in the Olympic Committee of the Maldives.

In July 2008, elective governance was introduced to FAM and Mr. Ali Azim was elected President of the association. On 26 January 2013, FAM held its second election according to FIFA and AFC Statutes and Mr. Ilham Ahmed was elected as the President, and Mr. Mohamed Hanim as the General Secretary of FAM and subsequently appointed Mr. Hussain Jawaz as the General Secretary on 4 June 2014 upon Mr. Mohamed Hanim Resignation .[3] After a brief spell under the Normalization Committee appointed by FIFA on 2 December 2014 under the guidance of Mr. Mohamed Shaweed on May 2016 Mr. Ahmed Thariq was elected as the President and Mr. Bassam Adeel Jaleel was appointed as the General Secretary. However with the dismissal of the General Secretary Mr. Bassam Adeel Jaleel after three months of his term in office President Mr. Ahmed Thariq was forced out of the office due to resignation of five Executive Members followed by reinstatement of Mr. Bassam as the General Secretary from FIFA due to unlawful statutory dismissal resulting in call for election. Bassam contested with Thariq and was elected as the president on 20 November 2016. Hussain Jawaz was appointed as the General Secretary.

Role & events

FAM is the governing body for football in the Maldives. It organizes the zone tournaments and the Dhivehi League, FA cup Maldives, Cup Winners Cup. Maldivian football is divided by FAM into a 3 tier entity, in which the 1st Division consists of 6 clubs. The number of clubs in the 2nd and 3rd division has been quite inconsistent. So has been the method and relegation rules so far. FAM is directly responsible for the organization of the individual matches, in which the referees come directly under the association and is not a separate entity, but rather as a referee's committee. It has been noted even in the season of 2007, many officials directly involved with clubs have been appointed as match commissioners in certain divisions.

References

  1. ↑ "A wonder court at your service". The Straits Times. 11 April 1984.
  2. ↑ https://www.fifa.com/associations/association=mdv/news/index.html, FIFA.com home page for Republic of Maldives
  3. ↑ http://www.famaldives.com/exco.html
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