Most footballers wanting to play are required to wear the hijab and play while fully covered.[1][2] While football was organised inside the country with 440 men's clubs in 2006,[3] and the first ever women's game being played in the country that year in February between Tahadi and Sudan University at Sports’ City, Sudan University,[17] development was hindered because a fatwa (religious order) by the Fiqh Council of Islamic in 2006 condemning the creation of a women's league in Sudan.[18] Still, in the South Sudan in 2006, the local government was indicating their support of women's football.[19] By 2009, women's football programmes had been established in the Sudan.