KATHMANDU, JAN 16 - Cities across the country are all prepared to topple each other on the field of football to become the winner of the biggest prize money tournament – the Birendra Memorial Inter-Municipality Football Tournament 2060 scheduled to start on February 1.
Forty-nine among 58 municipalities are participating in the two-leg tournament, All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) announced here today at a press conference. The municipalities will first play in regional qualifiers and then advance to the finale round to be held in Kathmandu.
The winner will pocket Rs 500,000 cash, more than double of the previous highest prize money tourney while the runners-up will walk away with Rs. 200,000. The third and fourth team will get Rs. 125,000 and Rs. 75,000 respectively; and the best player and highest scorer each pocketing Rs. 50,000. Kathmandu Metropolitan City, the co-organiser, will sponsor the prize-money, informed ANFA spokesperson Lalit Krishna Shrestha.
Butwal, Pokhara and Waling from Western Region have already qualified standing first, second and third respectively among 11 teams in the preliminary tournament played in Pokhara, said Shrestha. Five teams from Central Region, four from Eastern and 2 from Mid-Western and Far Western combined will enter the second round. The preliminary rounds in the remaining region will start on January 17.
At the press conference to announce the tournament, ANFA acting general secretary Kumar Jung Thapa and KMC’s Mani Kunwar were present.Posted on: 2004-01-17 03:48

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