As per the competitions regulations of the Africa Schools Football Championship (223-2024) season, it is mandatory to register all players that participated in the National Phase registered on FIFA Connect. Only those players will be eligible to take part in the Zonal playoffs. This user guide summarizes all necessaries steps to be taken, which includes the following:


MANDATORY:


1) Registration of all schools taking part in the National phase in FIFA Connect Platform (FCP)

2) Registration of all players of those schools taking part in the National phase in FCP


3) Setting up the National phase as a tournament in FIFA Connect Competition Management System (FCMS)

4) Creating school teams of the participating schools and assigning them to the tournament in FCMS

5) Assigning the participating players to the player list of the school team for that tournament


OPTIONAL:


6) Enter match results for all games of the National Phase 

More details, including how to create a user account for FCP and FCMS, can be found in the description of the steps below.


FIFA Connect Platform (FCP)

  • How to create an Account
  • How to apply for Admin Roles
  • How to approve Admin Roles
  • How to Add a Club (for schools)
  • How to Register Recreational Players
  • How to Request Person Details if person exists in FIFA Connect already
  • How to View and Approve Players
  • How to create Reports
  • How to View Saved Report


FIFA Connect Competition Management System (FCMS)


  • How to create an Account
  • How to apply for Admin Roles
  • How to approve Admin Roles
  • Setup before Competition Creation
  • How to create a Competition
  • How to Enter Results




As some Member Associations are live with FIFA Connect and/or FCMS and using Recreational Football as a Registration type, therefore some of the steps will be familiar to you. The purpose of this step by step user guide is to assist all Member Associations based on the level of experience with either platform



1. How to create an Account for FIFA Connect


  • User Guide on this process can be found here



2. How to apply for Admin Roles for FIFA Connect


  • User guide on this process can be found here



3. How to approve Admin Roles for FIFA Connect


  • User Guide on this process can be found here



4. How to Register a Club in FIFA Connect


  • User Guide on this process can be found here



5. How to Register Recreational Players in FIFA Connect


  • User Guide on this process can be found here



6. How to Request Person Details in FIFA Connect


  • User Guide on this process can be found here, this is required if a player from a School already exists in the FIFA Connect environment (as an Amatuer Football Player for another Club for example) 
  • If the player has never been registered in the FIFA Connect Environment before, you can follow guide in Step 5 above


7. How to Approve Registrations in FIFA Connect


  • User Guide on how to approve Registrations at MA level can be found here



8. How to Create Reports in FIFA Connect


  • User guide on how to create your own report can be found here
  • This is how you can track progress on registrations for Recreational Football Players



9. How to create an Account in FCMS

  • User guide on how to create an account can be found here 


10. How to apply for Roles in FCMS


  • User guide on how to apply for Roles can be found here 


11. How to approve Admin Roles in FCMS


  • User guide on how to approve Admin roles for FCMS can be found here


12. Setup Required before Creating Competitions


  • User guide on steps required before creating Schools Competition can be found here


13. How to create a Competition


Below is list of user guides on how to create a competition based on your requirements

It is also possible to create multi-stage competitions (Group Competition followed by Knock Out Competition for example)

  • User guide on how to create Round Robin Competition - here
  • User Guide on how to create Knock Out Competition - here
  • User Guide on how to create Group Competition - here



14. How to create Teams to a Competition


  • User guide on this process can be found here


15. How to enter results in FCMS


  • User guide on how to enter results can be found here if required