The Basketball Africa League (BAL) is operating with international governing frame Fiba to ascertain a unutilized girls’s membership festival within the coming years.

The BAL is in its fourth date as a males’s event, with the 2024 champions prepared to be determined on 1 June nearest play-offs involving 8 groups in Kigali, Rwanda.

BAL president Amadou Gallo Fall says paintings “is already being done” by way of his organisation to spice up the ladies’s recreation.

“There is a women’s club championship that Fiba is running and we built the BAL on the foundation of club basketball that Fiba used to run,” he informed BBC Recreation Africa.

“We contribute towards investment in growing the women’s game.

“The foundation is laid. Ultimately, that day will come.”

A key problem for Gallo Fall is to extend the feminine skill lake around the continent.

“We need to continue to support women’s participation in the sport and the development at grassroots level working with Fiba,” the Senegalese added.

“I know the women’s game is very popular in certain countries – Senegal, Mozambique, Egypt, Mali and Nigeria.

“We want to grow the women’s game to make sure there are more countries playing the sport.”