CAF African Schools Football Championship

Somalia draw Tanzania in CAF African Schools Football Championship qualifiers

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November 10, 2025

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Somalia have been drawn to face Rwanda, Ethiopia, Sudan and African reigning champions Tanzania in the Boys category of the CAF African Schools Football Championship CECAFA qualifiers

The Council of East and Central Africa Football Association (CECAFA) Head of Marketing and Communication, Andrew Oryada conducted the draw on Monday at the FUFA TV studio in Mengo, Uganda.

Uganda will host the CAF African Schools Football Championship Zonal qualifiers December 6-9^th at the St. Mary’s Stadium, Kitende, and the FUFA Stadium Kadiba.

Oryada says they expect the Championship to be more competitive compared to the previous qualifiers. “This time we shall have more teams than we have had before with 10 for the Boys and eight for the girls,” added Oryada.

The hosts Uganda are placed in Group A alongside Burundi, Djibouti, Kenya and South Sudan.

For the Girls’ category the regional defending champions Uganda are placed together with Kenya, Burundi and Rwanda in Group A, while Tanzania, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Djibouti are I Group B.

The best two teams from each group will qualify for the semi-final stage, the winners will play at the final, and the losers will tussle it out in a play-off to decide who wins bronze.

The champions will win a cash prize of US$100,000, the runner-up US$75,000 and the third placed US$50,000 for each category. The cash prizes go directly towards development of a project back at the winning schools.

CAF African Schools Football Championship

Uganda to host CAF African Schools Football Zonal qualifiers

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4 days ago

November 8, 2025

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Uganda has been selected to host the CAF African Football CECAFA Zonal qualifiers 2026.

Jean Sseninde, the Interim Executive Director of the Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA) says that the tournament has been moved from Ethiopia to Uganda.

“We are happy to announce that the regional qualifiers for the CECAFA Zone will now be hosted by Uganda from December 6-9^th, 2025. This is a very important competition to have the youngsters compete at Zonal level for boys and girls and later, and we thank Uganda for accepting to host the tournament,” explained Sseninde.

Ten teams for the boys and eight for the girls have already confirmed participation. The draw for the competition will take place on November 10th at the FUFA Studio in Mengo, Uganda.

Sseninde highlighted that In addition to the competition, CAF’s ongoing Capacity Building Programmes will also take place.

These include the Young Reporters Programme, Young Referee Programme, Young Medical Officers Programme, CAF D License Coaching Course and the CAF Safeguarding workshops.

Teams from the CECAFA Zone have been the most successful teams since the CAF African Schools Championship was launched by CAF President Dr. Patrice Motsepe in 2022.

The inaugural tournament took place in Durban in 2023 with Guinea’s CS Ben Sekou Sylla winning the boys title, and Tanzania’s Fountain Gate School winning the girl’s title. During the second edition hosted by Zanzibar in 2024, Tanzania won the boy’s title, while South Africa emerged champions in the girl’s category.

The third edition held in Ghana this year saw Tanzania defend their boy’s title, while hosts Ghana beat Uganda in the final to win the girl’s title.