Irish sports-ground surfacing company SIS IRL says it has signed a new contract in Angola for $11.2 million (€7.7 million).

The deal is to provide maintenance services and equipment to all of the African Championship training facilities including three first division clubs, new synthetic pitches and upgrading of pitches in the capital Luanda.

This contract announced yesterday follows an earlier contract of $16.4 million (€11.2 million) awarded to SIS in June. The company has finished construction of all of the stadium pitches for the African Championships.