Add the PFF-Smart Club Championship to Global FC's already-stacked schedule this year.
Global will represent the Leyte Football Association, marking the first time they will represent the province in a national competition.
Although Global sees action in the UFL, the club is actually a registered member of Leyte FA headed by club owner Dan Palami.
The People's Club participated in the last two editions of the competition, winning the title in the inaugural season in 2011. Global reached the quarterfinals in the previous edition, where it lost to eventual winners Ceres FC last January.
Global are grouped in Group E for the regional group stage qualifying rounds where they are grouped with Cebu FA's Cebu Queen City United FC and Northern Samar FA's Hijos FC.
Global will face Hijos FC on Saturday in Tacloban, and will meet Cebu Queen City United FC either on October 29 or 30, to determine which team will advance to the final qualifying round.
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Leyte was previously disqualified , and Cebu and Northern Samar played qualifiers earlier this month. Now they have to play another qualifier...
From Watchmen Daily Journal Sept 30
With the 2013 Smart-PFF Club Championships Group E set to kick off Wednesday, the Leyte Football Association was stripped out of the competition after organizers found violation on the team.
In a communication from PFF, Dick Empirado, chairman of the PFF Competitions Committee and a member of the PFF Board of Governors, wrote that upon the deadline of submission of all club entries participating in this tournament, Leyte FA submitted as its club participant-members and officials from the Global Football Club (Global FC).
On inquiry of the PFF Competitions Department in its official capacity as administrator of the PFF-Smart National Club Championships 2013, the department reported to the PFF Competitions Committee that the Global Football Club (Global FC) is officially registered as a regular member of the National Capital Region Football Association (NCRFA) and not with Leyte FA.
Thus, upon proper inquiry and deliberation of the PFF Competitions Committee, they have concluded that two (2) violations have been clearly committed by Leyte FA. First, by submitting the players and officials and/or the Global FC as its official club entry who is a regular member of the NCRFA and second, no provincial elimination report was submitted that would justify its official representative to the competition.
