Nairobi geared up to host African Schools Football Championship CECAFA Zonal Qualifier
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The African Schools Football Championship (ASFC) Zonal Qualifiers officially resume this week, as Kenya prepares to host the CECAFA Zonal Qualifiers of the competition between 11 – 13 December in the nation’s capital of Nairobi.
The second season of the innovative youth competition by CAF got off to an exciting start for school-going boys and girls, with this year’s edition seeing a positive spike in participation of more than 800 000 young African boys and girls from over 20 000 schools across 44 countries competing in the 2023/24 edition.
Following the successful start to the Zonal Qualifiers in Togo earlier this month, which saw Benin (Boys) and tournament hosts, Togo (Girls) lifting the WAFU B Zone titles and subsequently qualifying for next year’s continental finals, the action now shifts to Nairobi where the Kasarani Stadium will play host to the tournament to determine who will represent the Zone in April next year.
Last season’s winners in the girls’ section, Tanzania – who also went on to win the Continental Finals certainly go into the tournament as one of the favourites, while the boys division will be equally competitive with the likes of Uganda, and the return of Kenya as tournament hosts setting up a highly competitive competition.
Similar to the WAFU B Zone as well as the rest of the competition, CAF will be conducting various capacity building programmes that will run concurrently to the competition as part of the tournament’s key objective of capacitating young Africans into becoming future leaders of the continent.
Some of the programmes lined up include an official CAF Coaching Course, Young Reporters Programme as well as the Young Referees Programme.
Countries participating in the African Schools Football Championship | CECAFA Zone:
