POMIS Cup

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POMIS Cup
Organising body Football Association of Maldives
Founded1987
Region Flag of Maldives.svg Maldives
Number of teams6
Current champions PDRM FA
Most successful club(s) New Radiant SC
Club Valencia
Soccerball current event.svg 2015

The POMIS Cup (known fully as President of Maldives Invitational Soccer Cup) is an international club football tournament kicked off in 1987 to promote the standards of local football in Maldives. [1] This is the only international soccer club tournament held in the Maldives.

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Due to various reasons, Football Association of Maldives (FAM) was not able to stage the tournament in the years of 2002 and 2004 to 2014.

In 2003, two foreign clubs from India and Sri Lanka competed in the cup, Mahindra United and Negombo Youth. [2]

On 22 December 2014, Football Association of Maldives (FAM) normalisation committee decided to introduce POMIS Cup again and started in January 2015. In 2015, the top two teams of Dhivehi League played against two foreign teams in the POMIS Cup. [3]

From 2016 onward, there will be no pomis cup rebranded to sheikh Jamal cup to participate the tournament along withforeign teams. On 19 January 2015, POMIS Cup committee rebranded the President of Maldives Invitational Soccer Cup to the People of Maldives Invitational Soccer Cup.

Previous winners

Peoples Cup (2015) teams

Number of titles

Rank# of titlesClubYear(s) won
13 New Radiant SC 1994, 1995, 1997
13 Club Valencia 1992, 1996, 2001
22 Hurriyya SC 1999
31 Renown Sports Club 1987
31 Victory Sports Club 1989
31Kerala SC1993
31 Mahindra United 2003
31 PDRM FA 2015

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References

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