{"id":64110,"date":"2025-11-12T14:25:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T14:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/uganda-hosts-caf-african-schools-football-championship"},"modified":"2025-11-12T15:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T15:05:09","slug":"uganda-hosts-caf-african-schools-football-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/uganda-hosts-caf-african-schools-football-championship","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Hosts CAF African Schools Football Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Uganda has been selected to host the CAF African Schools Football Championship CECAFA Zonal Qualifiers 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Jean Sseninde, the Interim Executive Director of the Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA), confirmed that the tournament has been moved from Ethiopia to Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We are happy to announce that the regional qualifiers for the CECAFA Zone will now be hosted by Uganda from December 6\u20139, 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,\u2019 explained Sseninde.<\/p>\n<p>Ten teams for the boys and eight for the girls have already confirmed participation. The draw for the competition will take place on November 10 at the FUFA Studio in Mengo, Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>Sseninde also highlighted that, in addition to the competition, CAF\u2019s ongoing Capacity Building Programmes will be conducted. These will include the Young Reporters Programme, Young Referee Programme, Young Medical Officers Programme, CAF D Licence Coaching Course, and CAF Safeguarding Workshops.<\/p>\n<p>Teams from the CECAFA Zone have been among the most successful since the CAF African Schools Championship was launched by CAF President Dr Patrice Motsepe in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The inaugural tournament took place in Durban in 2023, with Guinea\u2019s CS Ben Sekou Sylla winning the boys\u2019 title and Tanzania\u2019s Fountain Gate School lifting the girls\u2019 trophy. During the second edition hosted by Zanzibar in 2024, Tanzania won the boys\u2019 title while South Africa emerged champions in the girls\u2019 category.<\/p>\n<p>The third edition held in Ghana this year saw Tanzania defend their boys\u2019 title, while hosts Ghana defeated Uganda in the final to claim the girls\u2019 championship.<\/p>\n<p><b>Group Draws<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Girls<\/p>\n<p><b>Group A:<\/b> Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda<\/p>\n<p><b>Group B:<\/b> Tanzania, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Djibouti<\/p>\n<p>Boys<\/p>\n<p><b>Group A:<\/b> Uganda, Burundi, Djibouti, Kenya, South Sudan<\/p>\n<p><b>Group B:<\/b> Tanzania, Somalia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Sudan<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Lesotho<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. Uganda has been selected to host the CAF African Schools Football Championship CECAFA Zonal Qualifiers 2026. Jean Sseninde, the Interim Executive Director of the Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA), confirmed that the tournament has been moved from Ethiopia to Uganda. \u2018We are happy to announce that the regional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":64109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[245],"class_list":["post-64110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-lesotho"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Uganda Hosts CAF African Schools Football Championship - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Uganda has been selected to host the CAF African Schools Football Championship CECAFA Zonal Qualifiers 2026. 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