30/08/2025
🚨PRESS RELEASE FROM MINSTRY OF YOUTH AND SPORTS OFFICE ____SOUTH SUDAN.
The National Ministry of Youth and Sports, State Coordinators and Sports Officials Resolved to Streamline Community Tournaments
29th August, 2025....The national Ministry of Youth and Sports, State and Administrative Areas Coordinators, and South Sudan Football Association held a meeting chaired by Hon. Minister Dr. Joseph Geng Akech to discuss challenges surrounding community tournaments in Juba.
The Ministry recognises the role sports plays in building peace, social cohesion, and unity. However, community tournaments in Juba have been marred with continuous violence among fans and sports officials in recent days.
In order to restore order and to follow standard sports regulations stipulated in the South Sudan Sports Development Policy 2024, the meeting resolved as follows:
1. Effective 2026, all community tournaments will be played in their respective States or Adminstrative Areas;
2. Governors or Chief Administrators shall make a request if they desire tournaments to be shifted from their States to national capital;
3. Organisers of community sports tournaments must register with and obtain prior approvals from the Ministry of Youth and Sports, who shall liaise with relevant sports federation and law enforcement agencies to ensure safe, peaceful and professional sports tournaments.