Cameroon MTN Elite One club UMS de Loum forfeits the remainder of the season due to financial crisis amidst tensions with FECAFOOT

Nkwain Desmond February 10th, 2023, 10:01 pm

Cameroon Elite one club UMS de Loum forfeits their remainder of the 2022/2023 MTN Elite One campaign due to financial crisis as they claim to have not received the money promised by FECAFOOT to Elite One clubs.

The club released a statement today announcing their forfeit as they are unable to meet FECAFOOT demands especially the minimum wage bill of 100,000 FCFA for their players.

Cameroon Elite one championship is already in the second half of the season. UMS de Loum were having a brilliant league season, occupying the 3rd position in Group A of the Cameroon Elite one after Matchday 10 and just 3 points from first place Coton Sport.

The club also goes further to attack FECAFOOT for making players believe that tge club has been paid money which has led to indiscipline in the club because of unpaid salaries.

Below is the press release by the club

Cameroon MTN Elite One club UMS de Loum forfeits the remainder of the season due to financial crisis amidst tensions with FECAFOOT — UMS de Loum Currently sit third in the MTN Elite One Group B table

“It is brought to the attention of the players and managers that for reasons of a unilateral increase to 100% by FECAFOOT of the salaries of the players, the non-payment of the balance of the 2021-2022 season subsidy and the non-payment of the support by FECAFOOT to UMS for the 2022 2023 season, having led to serious crises (refusal to train, total indiscipline and requirement to pay salary during an inactive period) within our team, whereas since the start of the Championship, FECAFOOT only paid us eleven million FCFA (11,000,000 FCFA);

We, the Union of Sports Movements (UMS) declare GENERAL FORFAIT in view of inhuman treatment on the part of FECAFOOT and ACEC where there is no sensitivity.

This is unheard of in the Professional Championship since

we are in Elite.

The passion we had as a Great Actor and Developer of football has suddenly faded, because we no longer understand anything at all in this unprecedented silence.

No information. We say nothing. FECAFOOT gives us unfulfilled appointments for the payment of various fees. Players strike by letting us know that we received a lot of money from FECAFOOT to pay them when it is not. Good luck to others.”

The Secretary General

TCHUNGNO Joseph