CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup set for comeback after five years

Harambee Stars lifting the CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup in 2017 Photo || CEFACA

FOOTBALL CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup set for comeback after five years

Mark Kinyanjui 19:05 - 05.02.2024

The committee will consider bids for six different CECAFA tournaments before the 16th February 2024 deadline.

The Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA) has officially opened the bidding process for willing Member Associations to host any tournament in the region this year.

CECAFA Competitions Director Yussuf Mossi confirmed that the bidding process opened on February 1st, 2024, and will be closed on February 16th.

He confirmed that the Competitions Committee, chaired by Ethiopian Football Federation boss Isayas Jira, had sat in Nairobi, Kenya a few days ago to draw a competition calendar for 2024.

Mossi made it clear that the four compulsory tournaments which will be staged include;  AFCON U-17 Boys qualifiers, AFCON U-20 Boys qualifiers, CAF Women’s Champions League Zonal qualifiers, and the Africa Schools Football Championships Zonal qualifiers. 

The CECAFA U-20 Girls Championship and the CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup are the other two tournaments on the calendar.

CECAFA will announce the host Member Associations during the nonelective General Assembly slated for February 23rd, 2024 in Mombasa, Kenya.

The Assembly had originally been scheduled to take place February 16th, but a change was made since all Presidents of Member Associations will be attending meetings in Abidjan, Ivory Coast to end February 14th, 2024.

CECAFA tournaments for 2024

– AFCON U-17 Boys qualifiers

– AFCON U-20 Boys qualifiers

– CAF Women’s Champions League Zonal qualifiers

– Africa Schools Football Championships Zonal qualifiers.

– CECAFA U-20 Girls Championship

– CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup

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