Minister of Youth and Sports Hadrammeh Sidibeh has told the country’s lawmakers the Gambia Football Federation is in talks with world football governing body FIFA for the construction of a new 60,000 capacity stadium for West Coast Region.
The Gambia currently has one stadium, the Independence Stadium. The rest are mini-stadiums or parks.
The Independence Stadium is in a bad state and the country’s lawmakers on Wednesday invited the sport minister for him to shed light on any plan to fix the dilapidated stadium.
“My ministry in consultation with the relevant ministries had developed and costed a plan to engage partners for construction and refurbishment of the said facility and the construction of news facilities… Gambia Football Federation is also in consultation with Fifa in financing a 60,000 seater capacity stadium in the West Coast Region,” Hadrammeh Sidibeh said on Wednesday.
