Junooni FC and Glory Days qualifies for Leisure Leagues Karachi Intra-City Championship 2019
The 2019 Leisure Leagues Karachi Intra-City Championship will be held in April this year for which Junooni FC and Glory Days have now qualified to participate.
Junooni FC and Glory Days have qualified for Leisure Leagues Karachi Intra-City Championship after finishing first and second respectively in the eight-team Leisure Leagues Season 5 held at Karachi United Football Stadium.
Junooni FC and Glory Days each accumulated 10 points but Junooni FC topped the table on the basis of better goal difference of 15 as compared Glory Days’ 14. Joga Bonito also piled 10 points but it had to content with third position as its goal difference was seven. Each of the eight teams played seven matches in the small-sided football league.
North Muslim FC, North Youngs FC, G.A. Lal FC, Orangi Folks, Shah Faisal FC, Qaqdri Sports and United FC have already qualified for 2019 Leisure Leagues Karachi Intra-City Championship, which will be held in April this year. These teams have won other eight-team leagues held earlier at different venues.
The winning teams of Intra-City Championships, which will be held in different cities of the country, will qualify for the Leisure Leagues National Championship this year – tentatively to be held in July.
The winning team of Leisure Leagues National Championship will represent Pakistan in the second edition of Socca World Cup, which will be held in Greece in October later this year.
Leisure Leagues is endeavoring to hold its leagues in at least in 50 cities of the country in order to have impressive presence of teams from all over the country in the national finals. It will give opportunity to teams of remote areas as well to aim big – that is Socca World Cup in Greece. Leisure Leagues has so far reached 39 cities of the country and last year, Lahore’s ICAW represented Pakistan in Socca World in Portugal.
