TTFA outlines steps for Super League compliance

Smith met members of TTS L’s interim Board of Management on Monday morning at the Ministry’s office, located at Tragarete Road in Woodbrook.

A wide-ranging and very cordial discussion revolved around the establishment of the new league, TTS L’s fundamental principle of being commercially viable and independent and how this could be achieved, the important work of TTS L member clubs with youth in the communities, the availability of community football venues with revenue-generating potential, and the role of the State as a main facilitator of sporting development.

The TT FA, in a media release yesterday, noted though that its Board “fully supports the initiative taken by the current clubs playing in the National Super League to appoint an interim committee to manage this competition. However at the time of its initial submission, the proposed TTS L’s interim committee prematurely applied for membership, since, the National Super League has been, and still is, a TT FA competition whose operations are outsourced.

“Moreover, pursuant to the TT FA’s constitution, the proposed TTS L must first become a duly constituted body governed by a constitution approved by the TT FA.” The TT FA stated that, in order for the TTS L to get that recognition, the recently-formed group “needs to submit correspondence to the General Secretariat of the TT FA, enclosing a hard copy of the its proposed constitution and requesting that the same be ratified by the TT FA.

“Should the General Secretariat of the TT FA receive the proposed TTS L’s constitution, a request will be made to include an application for membership as an Agenda item on the next permissible statutory Board meeting