A pos­si­ble re­pay­ment plan could be on of­fer for teams fac­ing fi­nan­cial chal­lenges but are de­sirous of en­ter­ing this year’s Women’s Foot­ball League (WoLF) which is set to kick off ten­ta­tive­ly in June.

New pres­i­dent Ver­net­ta Flan­ders said at­tempts will be made to reach all clubs.

The league cur­rent­ly has nine ac­tive clubs and wants to in­crease that num­ber to at least 12 where it can hold a two-group tour­na­ment as they have done in the past. WoLF’s new Pub­lic Re­la­tions Of­fi­cer Mo­han Per­sad said some clubs have been fac­ing fi­nan­cial prob­lems and will not be par­tic­i­pat­ing, while oth­ers have tak­en a sim­i­lar po­si­tion to not play be­cause of fear of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

“We have been at­tempt­ing to al­lay those fears but there is not much we can re­al­ly do, so we will reach out to the teams to find out what we can help them with. We have not yet agreed on any­thing as a League, but some of the pro­pos­als in­clude of­fer­ing a pos­si­ble pay­ment plan for clubs to cov­er their reg­is­tra­tion and oth­er af­fil­i­a­tion fees,” Per­sad said.

WoLF is set to reap spon­sor­ship of up to $200,000 from the As­cen­sion Foot­ball League for its 2022 sea­son. And from that amount, a prize struc­ture will be set aside, as well as oth­er ex­pens­es in­clu­sive of ref­er­ees’ fees, equip­ment and oth­er ex­pens­es for clubs trav­el­ling to To­ba­go for match­es.

Ac­cord­ing to Per­sad, they have al­so been talk­ing to the teams about the need for the com­pe­ti­tion to restart and their in­ten­tion to ad­here to the COVID-19 pro­to­cols. The last time the league was held back in 2018, Club San­do won. It fea­tured teams such as Queen’s Park, Diego Mar­tin FC, To­ba­go Chi­cas, St Au­gus­tine FC, Le­gions, North Coast Sweaters, Re­al Di­men­sions, Cen­tral Women and Petrotrin which was de­stroyed by the shut­down of Petrotrin.

To date Le­gions, North Coast Sweaters, Re­al Di­men­sions and Cen­tral Women have pulled out due to help need­ed.