Nagpur :- Sports For All (SFA), India’s leading tech-enabled multi-sport grassroots competition platform emphasizes on promoting sports at grassroots level, across the country. With its commitment towards strengthening India’s sporting DNA and a strong focus on supporting the government’s mission for a thriving sporting culture, SFA is expanding its presence to Nagpur.
The key focus areas for SFA have been enabling Public & Private sporting initiatives in the country and building a robust sporting ecosystem through SFA Championships.In the last 8years since inception, SFA has enabled its IP tech expertise for 200,000 athletes through 12 SFA Championships across geographies.In addition, the 36th National Games, Gujarat, 2022 and Khelo India Youth Games, Haryana, 2021 were powered by the SFA’s tech IP Games Management System. In 2023, SFA signed on as a sponsor for the Khelo India Youth Games, for the next 5years.
Reuben Pandian, Chief Strategy Officer, SFA, shares, “Guided by the common vision of strengthening India’s sporting DNA, we aim to revolutionize India’s grassroots sporting ecosystem. School sports is the best way to inculcate discipline, sportsmanship and perseverance in today’s youth and laying the foundation of a healthier nation. SFA is transforming how school sports is perceived in India, by combining technology and an aspirational platform for young athletes. By making school level athletes experience the thrill of playing at an Olympic-level championship, we will ensure they have a head start on their journey to becoming future Olympians.”
In 2023, SFA will encourage 2 Lakh athletes to play through 10 SFA Championships in a span of 4 months. The vision is to make SFA Championships the nervous system for discovering sporting potential at the school-level and groom future champions, through capabilities in tech and data analytics. By leveraging technology extensively, recording their performance videos and data analytics, city-by city, SFA is on a mission to discover the number one school for sports in India.
Rajas Joshi, COO, SFA added, “Sports For All (SFA) is democratizing access to sportsto discover the future champions. Our aim is to provide one unifying platform that will discover, train and empower talent across multi-sports. Bringing the combined power of Tech and visual content in assessing and enhancing performance at school level, we will ensure support throughout the athlete’s sporting journey. Through the past 12 editions of SFA Championships, we have encouraged the participation of over 2 Lakh athletes from more than 4,000 schools.
About Sports For All (SFA)
Sports For All (SFA) is India’s largest tech-enabled multi-sport grassroots competition platform.
The vision of the organization is to make youth fall in love with sports through inspiring and joyful sporting experiences. Founders Rishikesh Joshi and VishwasChoksi, since the inception of SFA in 2015, have determinedly focused on transforming sporting championships at the grassroots level, by providing an inclusive, diverse, safe, and best in class platform for the youth to realise their fullest potential through sports.
The SFA Championships were instituted to showcase the potential of large-scale multi-sporting competitions propelled with tech and data analytics. Being phygital in nature, the SFA Championships have today become the backbone of identifying sporting potential at the grassroots level. Since 2015, SFA has enabled 12 Championships at Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, and Uttarakhand, across 28 sporting disciplines, with participation of 200,000 athletes and more than 4000 schools.
SFA, is the leading sports entrepreneurial venture empaneled with the Sports Authority of India (SAI), official partner of Team India under the aegis of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and are sponsors for Khelo India Youth Games, beginning from the Madhya Pradesh, 2023 (for the next five years, until 2028 editions).
The 36th National Games, Gujarat, 2022 and Khelo India Youth Games, Haryana, 2021 were powered by the SFA’s Games Management System (the tech IP), as part of the Services portfolio. Previously, SFA has also managed editions of Khelo India Youth Games in Pune, Guwahati, and Panchkula.
Today SFA is the go-to solution architect for all major sports activations across the Government and corporate projects. www.sfaplay.com
