The Likoni Community Football League is a community-based youth organization in Likoni, Mombasa. It is registered with the aim of providing a competition base that exposes young people to the sport of football while also hoping to create leaders within the community.
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The L.C.F.L. believes these leaders will develop by participating in future L.C.F.L. community related events like clean-ups and HIV/AIDS instruction, leadership seminars, peace and security seminars, career development seminars, etc.
Its activities cover many areas in Likoni with room for expansion. Currently the football league includes Under-12, Under-14, and Under-16 years old. The league is organized so that there are three seasons per year i:e from January to March, May to July and September to November with the champions league tournament running in April, August and December holidays. This past season the L.C.F.L hadover 600 members who participated in its activities.
During Season II, the L.C.F.L. expanded with a total of 52 teams: 24 teams in the Under-12 years old division, 12 teams in the Under-14 years old division, and 16 teams in the Under-16 year old division. The League has created four different zones across Likoni. Each zone has two large fields for Under-14 and Under-16 years old and one small field for the Under-12 division. The four zones are Shelley Beach Zone, Dimbwini Zone, Approved Zone, and Mtongwe zone. The League has also provided for nine sets of goal posts that are set up in each zone. The L.C.F.L. is still a work in progress and now has 23 teams for Season III : eight teams in the Under-12 years old division, eight teams in the Under-14 years old division, and seven teams in the Under-16 years old division. In the near future the L.C.F.L. hopes to continue to be successful and expand again.
Along with setting up goal posts and expanding the league, the L.C.F.L. is sponsoring any coach that is a part of the league to participate in a local Coaching Course. Also, the L.C.F.L. is sponsoring a Referee Instruction Course. The L.C.F.L. believes that to improve football at the grassroots level, coaching and officiating needs to improve and we hope to hold coaching and officiating courses once a year.
The future goals of the L.C.F.L. are endless. The League is partnering up with Hatua Likoni, a well respected organization based in Likoni. The L.C.F.L. hopes to create a strong endless relationship with Hatua and combine education with sports to get children off the streets. The League has created Bylaws and a Constitution that will strictly be followed. The L.C.F.L. hopes to be able to distribute balls, bibs, and cones to each club every year. The League hopes to create a Senior League and hopefully, one day, a Girls League as well. Last, the L.C.F.L. Board hopes to expand to allow thousands and thousands of kids throughout Likoni to participate in the Likoni Community Football League.
Although this is a football league, the League will make sure it strengthens the community not only through sport, but also by contributing to the community in different ways. The L.C.F.L. wants to be used as that channel, or gateway, for other organizations to use to get their point across to thousands of kids. As the L.C.F.L. grows we hope to create more and more partnerships that will make the League stronger while also supporting the community.
