David GOMBE
The Central and East Africa regional football tournament (Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup) will return after four years.
The 2024 edition will be hosted by Zanzibar, starting from 29th June and run until 14th July.
The competition was last held in 2019 in Kampala as Uganda went all the way to clinching the title.
For starters, each country that will take part in this year’s tourney will have to pay $20,000 to help the hosting Country in logistics and operational costs.
CECAFA Executive Director, Auka Gecheo confirmed the dates for the event
“After consultations with our sponsors Azam TV, its been settled that June 29th to July 14th will be the best timing to have the CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup,” says the CECAFA Executive Director, Auka Gecheo.
In 2019, hosts Uganda won the Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup after beating Eritrea 3-0 in the final of the East African regional championship.
Uganda are the record competition winners on 15 titles after victories in 1928, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1943, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973,1976, 1977, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2019.
