The 40Th Edition of  the The Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations, (CECAFA)-KAGAME Club Cup Championship draws took place in Kigali Capital City, Rwanda this Friday with CECAFA, FERWAFA, SUPPERSPORT and Top Government officials witnessing the ceremony.

 The tournament which has attracted a record 14 clubs will now kick off on August 8th and not 9th and end on 24th, one day more from the earlier schedule. A total of 34 matches - all to be shown live by Supersport will be staged at Amahoro and Nyamirambo Stadium.

President Kagame of Rwanda who is also the patron of CECAFA has already committed USD 60,000 prize money and the Ministry of Sports and other agencies are sponsoring the event.

Several companies in Rwanda have pledged their total support for the event which will mark 20th anniversary of Rwanda genocide. The fixtures and time schedules will be released next week.  However, the playing Groups are as below:

Group A                                        Group B                                               Group C
Rayon Sport [RW]                       APR [RW]                                           Vital’O [BUR]
Yanga SC [TZ]                               KCC [UG]                                            El-Merreikh [SUD]
Coffee [ETH]                                 Flambeau De L’est [BUR]               Police [RW]
Atlbara [S.SUD]                            Gor Mahia [KEN]                             Benadir [SOM]
KMKM [ZANZ]                               Telcom [DJ]               

·         Qualification: A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3, C1 and C2
·         All clubs to present FA playing Licenses
·         Referees Fitness/ Medical tests to be conducted August 5-6
·         Latest arrival of teams is August 6th

Rogers Mulindwa

Media Manager/Spokesperson

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