Football Sri Lanka announced the initial squad for the SAFF Championship earlier this week. The SAFF Championship is all scheduled to be held in Maldives from 01st to 13th October.

initially 6 Colombo FC players namely Charitha Rathnayake, Chalana Chameera, Chamod Dilshan, Mohamed Aakib, Afeel Mohamed and Abdul Basith were called up. However Abdul Basith was later replaced due to technical reasons.

The squad has been training under a bio bubble and has been carefully monitored.

Club coach Mr. M.H.Roomy was also called up by the FSL for this tour as a technical coach.

The Squad is scheduled to fly to Qatar for a 14 day training prior to their departure to Maldives.

We would like to congratulate the team on behalf of the Club.