The All Nepal Football Association (Anfa) on Wednesday decided to honour the 12th South Asian Games (Sag) gold medal winning Nepali football team with Rs 500,000 each.

Nepal had defeat hosts India 2-1 in the final of the SA Games held in Assam and Guwahati for their first gold in the regional meet in 23 years. Their last gold came during the 1993 edition held in Bangladesh. The executive committee meeting of Anfa on Wednesday also endorsed the decision to honour the Bangabandhu Gold Cup football tournament winners with Rs 500,000 each.

The women’s national team, meanwhile, will be feted with Rs 100,000 for claiming silver in the Games. The

women’s team had lost to India 4-0 in the final. The award ceremony will be held next month, informed the football governing body on Wednesday.

Likewise, the meeting also decided to organise annual U-16 Championship in the memory of Anfa’s Late Acting President Lalit Krishna Shrestha who had died on June 12 at his new house due to electrocution.

Anfa is also set to launch

a pilot project in Mid-Western and Far-Western Regions

by technically and financially helping the District FAs

and clubs to increase

football activities. It has also been decided to start the process of club licensing for

‘A’ Division clubs and potential ‘B’ Division clubs from this year.

The initiation comes after AFC made it mandatory for all the member countries of club licensing. To materialise the plan, AFC officials will be holding a seminar with Nepali clubs on April 18. Meanwhile, Wednesday’s meeting also approved the yearly calendar of the Anfa.