Bengaluru, January 10th, 2024: The first edition of SFA Championships in Bengaluru is set to unfold, promising a first-ever exposure to multi-sports for athletes across the city. With more than 12000 athletes from over 450 schools having confirmed their participation, the SFA Championships aims to discover "number one school in sports" in the city. The SFA Championships is an endeavour by Sports For All (SFA), India's largest tech-enabled multi-sports school competition platform.
Padukone Dravid Centre for Excellence, Sri Jayaprakash Narayan National Youth Training Centre and Force 1 Skating Rink, Bengaluru’s state-of-the-art infrastructure will be the hosting venues for school athletes from January 16th to January 25th. In the inaugural edition of the Bengaluru Championships, school athletes will get on the playground for team and individual sports such as racquet sports, athletics, combat sports, indigenous sports like kabaddi and kho kho, as well as football, basketball, throwball and volleyball, amongst many others.
With 69% participation from male athletes and 31% female athletes, the top preferred sports registered for include football, athletics, badminton, basketball, kabaddi, highlight the diverse talent pool among the youth. The top sports for female athletes in Bengaluru include athletics, badminton, basketball, football, skating, while football, athletics, badminton, chess and kabaddi are the top sports opted for by male athletes.
SFA Championships are India’s largest multi-sport school competitions, enabling an opportunity for youth to unleash their fullest potential through joyful and inspiring sporting experiences. These Championships are revolutionising the way school sports are experienced in India, aiming to host 150 Championships in 50 cities over the next five years. SFA envisions creating a unified platform, accessible with a simple click, to discover talent across various sports. Within the last two months, the SFA Championships have served as a catalyst for over 80,000 athletes hailing from more than 3,000 schools, across 6 cities, for the calendar year 2023-2024.
To deliver an unparalleled sporting experience, the SFA Championships will provide young athletes with top-notch infrastructure, certified match officials, and referees. The infrastructure includes comprehensive medical stations with on-site physiotherapists, clinics, and workshops. Through a digitally integrated system, athletes gain access to detailed statistics, performance analysis, and match videography. The website's digital record empowers athletes to review and compare performances with peers across states, fostering a healthy competitive environment. Envision this as a multisport platform akin to the Olympics, enabling every school to send their athlete contingent for spirited sports competition.
Contributing to strengthen the sporting ecosystem of the country, Sports For All (SFA) and Viacom18 have joined forces to SFA Championships for millions of sports enthusiasts nationwide. Viacom18 will showcase the highlights of the SFA Championships 2023-2024 on JioCinema, Sports18-2, and Sports18 Khel channels.
On Day 1 of the SFA Championship in Bengaluru, school athletes will be showcasing their skills at Padukone Dravid Centre in athletics. The daily schedule, detailed results of each sport's competition, will be available on – www.sfaplay.com. For real-time updates, highlights, and exclusive behind-the-scenes moments, follow our social media channels – Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.
SFA Championships is poised to make sports accessible for young athletes across the country, thereby empowering today’s talent to become the Champions of tomorrow.
About Sports For All (SFA)
Sports For All (SFA) is India's largest tech-enabled multi-sport grassroots competition platform. The vision is to make youth fall in love with sports through inspiring and joyful sporting experiences. Founders Rishikesh Joshi and Vishwas Choksi, since the inception of SFA in 2015, have determinedly focused on transforming and mobilising school sporting championships in the country, by providing an inclusive, diverse, safe, and best-in-class platform for the youth to realise their fullest potential through sports.
SFA Championships, SFA’s flagship IP, brings forth the potential of large-scale multi-sporting competitions propelled by tech and data analytics. Being phygital in nature, the SFA Championships have today become the backbone of identifying sporting potential at the grassroots level. In 2023, SFA has pledged to encourage 2 lakh athletes to participate at 10 SFA Championships. This city-based model has been held across Indore, Dehradun, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, and will continue in Bangalore, Delhi and Ahmedabad, to discover the “number one school in sports”, in each city.
With a technology-led approach at its core, SFA enables the entire grassroots sport ecosystem via SFAPLAY.COM, a platform designed to empower and connect all stakeholders via statistics, data, analytics, match videos, content, performance management, and competition management systems.
SFA is the leading sports entrepreneurial venture empanelled with the Sports Authority of India (SAI), the “official partner” of the Indian Olympic Association, enabling support for Indian contingent to the Tokyo Olympics, 2020; Birmingham Commonwealth Games, 2022; Asian Games, 2022; and ‘official sponsors’ for Khelo India Youth Games (for the next five years). The 36th National Games, Gujarat, 2022, the 37th National Games, Goa, 2023 and editions of Khelo India Youth Games in Haryana, Pune, Guwahati, and Panchkula, were powered by SFA’s Tech IP ‘Games Management System’ (GMS).
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