SINHALA & TAMIL NEW YEAR

JAFFNA SUMMER FESTIVAL 2023

Tamil Traditional Sports Festival &
Football League

EVENT DATE EVENT TIME EVENT PLACE

8TH APRIL 2023 8.30AM TO 5.30PM MANOHARA SPORTS CLUB GROUND,

ALVAI , JAFFNA
A one Media is organizing “Jaffna Summer festival -2023 “to celebrate the new year in April. As the key attraction of this
festival there will be a football league with the participation of 30 teams. The Final match will be on 8th April and on the
same day morning the New Year traditional games will be arranged to make everybody feel the vibe of the festival.

Tamil Traditional Sports Festival

The Tamil traditional games will start at 9.00 am on 8th April and there will be games for preschool kids and also interesting
games for all age group.

• Needle & Threat Lime on

• Musical chair – Male
Spoon
• Musical chair – Female
• Eating yogurt
• Scraping coconut
• Breaking balloon
• Making garland
• Preparing “Thoranam”
(Woven coconut leave ) • Eye on elephant
• Fancy dress competition- • Decorating Kolam
Children
• Bun eating
• Counting papaw seeds
• Kilithattu
• Cap changing
A – One Football League - 2023
In this league , there will be 30 football teams from Jaffna district will be participating and this tournament will be
starting on 25th March and will be continuing to roll out till 8 th April at Alvai Manohara sports club ground. Around 2000
spectators are expected to participate.
The grand finally will start at 4pm on 8th April 2023

Target Group
 Preschool students and parents
 Youngsters from the neighboring towns
 Players and members of 30 football clubs in
Jaffna and spectators.
 There will be a reasonable number of viewers
as there is going to be a final championship
football match.