KINGSTON, Jamaica — Telecoms provider Digicel and leading distributor and manufacturer Wisynco will take over the title sponsorships of the Manning Cup and daCosta Cup competitions, impeccable OBSERVER ONLINE sources have revealed.

FLOW’s $150 million five-year sponsorship of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) football competitions ended December 2017.

It is understood that Digicel sponsorship will be “an improved one with lots of changes” although financial details of the deal were withheld by OBSERVER ONLINE sources.

At the end of last season, FLOW expressed confidence that ISSA would have extended their contract saying “we strongly believe that it is going to be very difficult for ISSA to find a partner like us”.

But on Thursday, FLOW, in a press statement, announced that their five-year title sponsorship deal has ended and thanked everyone their overwhelming support. In 2013 FLOW took over as title sponsor of schoolboy football from Digicel whose five year deal had expired in 2012.

Now Digicel is returning for their second stint as title sponsor, but this time, just for the Corporate Area Manning Cup.

The rural area daCosta Cup will have Wisynco as its title sponsor, apparently a first for ISSA to have two separate title sponsors of their schoolboy football product.

Meanwhile, uncertainty surrounds the rich and successful all-island knockout Super Cup — the brainchild of FLOW – as to whether or not that competition will be continued.

OBSERVER ONLINE has learnt that the Super Cup will be renamed the President Cup.

FLOW introduced the Super Cup to great effect which they thought “brought schoolboy football back to glorious, halcyon days”.

Howard Walker