{"id":232696,"date":"2026-05-08T16:14:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nfa-launches-n7-5m-cup-amid-club-withdrawals\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:14:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:14:44","slug":"namibia-nfa-launches-n7-5m-cup-amid-club-withdrawals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nfa-launches-n7-5m-cup-amid-club-withdrawals\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: NFA Launches N$7.5m Cup Amid Club Withdrawals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\"><em>The Namibia Football Association (NFA) has officially unveiled the NFA Cup 2026, describing it as the biggest football competition in the country&#8217;s history, involving 66 leagues, 740 clubs, and more than 21 900 players across all 14 regions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Speaking at the launch in Windhoek, NFA acting general secretary Mabos Vries, together with the association spokesperson Casius Moeti, says the competition is aimed at expanding playing opportunities and improving competitiveness across all levels of Namibian&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605080316.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Namibia Football Association (NFA) has officially unveiled the NFA Cup 2026, describing it as the biggest football competition in the country&#8217;s history, involving 66 leagues, 740 clubs, and more than 21 900 players across all 14 regions. Speaking at the launch in Windhoek, NFA acting general secretary Mabos Vries, together with the association spokesperson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":232697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7400,6674,5957,54354,4706,724,257,9079,254,33170],"class_list":["post-232696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-club","tag-cup","tag-launches","tag-n7-5m","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-nfa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-withdrawals"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}