Press Release
LaLiga and Zanaco Football Club sign strategic partnership agreement
Lusaka, 17 August 2022
LaLiga and Zambian giants Zanaco Football Club today announced a partnership that will
see the Spanish professional league transfer its football expertise and knowledge to Zanaco Football Clubs coaches.
This is the third agreement between LaLiga and a major African club after similar strategic
consultancy and business partnerships with Tanzanian champions Yanga SC and Angolan
champions Petro Atletico de Luanda, and further showcases LaLigas continued commitment
to the growth and development of African football at all levels.
The sports consultancy partnership between LaLiga and Zanaco Football Club was signed in
Lusaka today and will see physical coaching sessions run twice a year at Zanaco Football
Club by LaLiga coaches, the first of which will be held in September this year.
These will be followed up with a series of digital monitoring sessions and a football and
business exchange between the parties, as LaLiga continues to demonstrate its international
leadership in football management.
Founded in 1978 as a social team by management trainees of the Zambia National
Commercial Bank Plc, Zanaco Football Club has become one of the most successful and decorated teams in Zambian football history.
Lusaka-based Zanaco Football Club, which retains strong ties with the Zambia National Commercial Bank Plc, has won seven Zambian Super League titles, four Charity Shields,one Coca Cola Cup, one Mosi Cup and three BP Cups in its history.
We are delighted to conclude this partnership agreement with Zanaco Football Club, which again affirms LaLigas ambition of contributing tangibly to the development of African football and to a strong and sustainable global sports industry.
Zanaco Football Club is an ambitious club with clear goals of producing players to play on the biggest stages in Africa and Europe.
We are confident this strategic partnership will continue to unlock international doors and
expertise for Zanaco Football Club and we look forward to working with the club to help it reach the lofty goals they have set for themselves, said LaLiga Southern Africa Managing Director, Marcos Pelegrin.
We are very delighted to have signed the sports development partnership agreement with LaLiga.
The signing of the agreement resonates well with our strategic focus of identifying and developing young talent into professional footballers for the benefit of Zambian football in particular and African football in general.
Laliga has the football expertise and knowledge that will be of great value to Zanaco Football Club in its quest to produce professional football players for the world market and improve technical skills of our
coaches.
Zanaco Football Club looks forward to the implementation of the agreement, said Zanaco Football Club Board Chairperson, David Musunga.
LaLigas latest commercial agreement in Africa is part of the internationalisation strategy the league began in 2016, which has seen it promote knowledge sharing between leagues, organisations and clubs on every continent. It is a unique initiative showing how clubs, leagues and partners can come together to support the growth of football around the world.
