Times Of Swaziland: EFA TO GET OVER E1M  IN TV RIGHTS FROM CAF

EFA TO GET OVER E1M  IN TV RIGHTS FROM CAF
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Sabelo Ndzinisa on 24/03/2021 08:07:00


MBABANE – The Eswatini Football Association (EFA) stands to benefit over E1
million (US$100 000) in television rights from the 2022 AFCON Qualifying
matches.
This has become standard payment procedure for most of the Confederation of
African Football (CAF) member associations participating in such tournaments.
The senior national football squad Sihlangu is involved in the qualifying
matches for this tournament even though they no longer stand a mathematical
chance of qualifying for the main tournament to be hosted in Cameroon in 2022.
The good news though for the EFA is that CAF members enjoy a constitutional
entitlement of US$100 000 at the end of the qualifying matches, whether
broadcast live or not with the exception of some countries like South Africa,
who enjoy different payment rates.
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This means the non-broadcast of Sihlangu CAF matches in recent times will not
have any bearing on the television rights the EFA will be entitled to get at the
end of the games. “Television rights for CAF have been centralised such that
the member associations except for the likes of South Africa, Egypt and Tunisia,
get the same payment at the end of those tournaments. So, at the end of the day,
the EFA will benefit from CAF in terms of television rights at the end of the
tournament,” an EFA insider confided yesterday. EFA’s Marketing and
Communications Officer Muzi Radebe said television rights issues were best
handled by CAF.
“I am aware that the issue of television rights was decentralised but as for
the payment aspect, only CAF can answer that because it is handled at executive
level and administrative. We do not have the authority to discuss it as member
associations,” Radebe said. It has been gathered that Sihlangu’s AFCON
Qualifier against Guinea Bissau billed for Friday at the Mavuso Sports Centre
will not be shown live on television but indications are that the next game
against Senegal will be televised.