Bidding process opens for hosting 2024 CECAFA tournaments

The Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA) has opened the bidding process for Member Associations that will be in position to host any tournament in the Zone this year.

Yussuf Mossi, the CECAFA Competitions Director says the bidding process opened on February 1st, 2024 and will close on February 16th.

He said the Competitions Committee chaired by Isayas Jira, also the President of the Ethiopia Football Federation (EFF) sat in Nairobi, Kenya few days ago and drawn a competitions 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 non elective 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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