The CECAFA Kagame Cup will return after a two-year hiatus with this year’s edition set to be hosted in Tanzania from July 20th to 4th August 2024.
In a communication by the East Africa regional football body, John Auka Gecheo, the CECAFA Executive Director, confirmed that some guest sides will take part in the tournament which will return this year after it was last held in 2021.
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“We are glad that this tournament will be returning after two years to provide a brilliant preseason platform for the teams to prepare better before the start of the 2024/2025 CAF Champions League, CAF Confederations Cup and the different Leagues back home,” Gecheo said.
The participants in the tournament will be picked from the respective Premier League champions from the 12 Members Associations including Zanzibar; CECAFA will also invite some other teams to spice up the tournament.
Uganda’s Express FC are the defending Champions of the tournament after beating guest side Nyasa Big Bullets from Malawi 1-0 in the final when the tournament was last held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2021.
Tanzania’s Simba SC have lifted the CECAFA Kagame Cup a record six times, while Young Africans SC (Tanzania) and Tusker FC (Kenya) five times each. The teams that have lifted the title three times each include; APR FC (Rwanda), Al Merriekh (Sudan), SC Villa (Uganda) and Kenya’s Gor Mahia FC.
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