CECAFA Cup 2015

CECAFA Cup 2015
CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup 2015
Number of nations	12
winner	Uganda Uganda (14th title)
venue	Ethiopia Ethiopia
Opening game	November 21, 2015
Tournament end	5th December 2015
Games	26th
Gates	52 (⌀: 2 per game)
Top scorer	Sudan Athar El Tahir (4 goals)

The CECAFA Cup 2015 , officially the CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup 2015 , was the 38th edition of the soccer competition for East and Central African national teams. It was held in Ethiopia from November 21 to December 5, 2015 . Eleven member associations of the Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations and an invited team from the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations took part in the tournament.

Game mode

The twelve participating countries played in three groups of four teams each. The group winners and runners-up as well as the two best thirds in the group qualified for the quarter-finals. The winners played in the semi-finals for a place in the final. The losers in the semi-finals played for third place.

Group A	Group B	Group C
Ethiopia Ethiopia (hosts)	Burundi Burundi	Djibouti Djibouti
Rwanda Rwanda	Kenya Kenya (defending champion)	Malawi Malawi (invited)
Tanzania Tanzania	Uganda Uganda	South Sudan South Sudan
Somalia Somalia	Zanzibar Zanzibar	Sudan Sudan

Venues

Awassa

Awassa Kenema Stadium

Capacity: 35,000

Capacity: 60,000

Capacity: 15,000

Addis Ababa

Bahir Dar

Awassa

Venues

Group stage

Group A

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Tanzania Tanzania	3	2	1	0	007: 200	+5	07th
2.	Rwanda Rwanda	3	2	0	1	005: 200	+3	06th
3.	Ethiopia Ethiopia	3	1	1	1	003: 200	+1	04th
4th	Somalia Somalia	3	0	0	3	000: 900	−9	00

Sat., November 21, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. (2:00 p.m. CEST) in Addis Ababa
Ethiopia	-	Rwanda	0: 1 (0: 0)
Sun., November 22, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. (12:00 p.m. CEST) in Addis Ababa
Somalia	-	Tanzania	0: 4 (0: 2)
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. (2:00 p.m. CEST) in Awassa
Rwanda	-	Tanzania	1: 2 (0: 1)
Wed., November 25, 2015 at 4 p.m. (2 p.m. CEST) in Awassa
Somalia	-	Ethiopia	0: 2 (0: 1)
Friday, November 27, 2015 at 2 p.m. (12 p.m. CEST) in Awassa
Rwanda	-	Somalia	3: 0 (1: 0)
Sat., November 28, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. (2:00 p.m. CEST) in Awassa
Tanzania	-	Ethiopia	1: 1 (0: 0)

Group B

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Uganda Uganda	3	2	0	1	005: 200	+3	06th
2.	Kenya Kenya	3	1	1	1	004: 400	± 0	04th
3.	Burundi Burundi	3	1	1	1	002: 200	± 0	04th
4th	Zanzibar Zanzibar	3	1	0	2	003: 600	−3	03

Sat., November 21, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. (12:00 p.m. CEST) in Addis Ababa
Burundi	-	Zanzibar	1: 0 (1: 0)
Sun., November 22, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. (2:00 p.m. CEST) in Addis Ababa
Kenya	-	Uganda	2: 0 (1: 0)
Tue., November 24, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. (12:00 p.m. CEST) in Awassa
Zanzibar	-	Uganda	0: 4 (0: 2)
Wed., November 25, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. (12:00 p.m. CEST) in Awassa
Kenya	-	Burundi	1: 1 (1: 1)
Friday, November 27, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. (2:00 p.m. CEST) in Awassa
Zanzibar	-	Kenya	3: 1 (1: 0)
Sat., November 28, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. (12:00 p.m. CEST) in Awassa
Uganda	-	Burundi	1: 0 (0: 0)

Group C

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	South Sudan South Sudan	3	2	1	0	004-000	+4	07th
2.	Malawi Malawi	3	2	0	1	005: 300	+2	06th
3.	Sudan Sudan	3	1	1	1	005: 200	+3	04th
4th	Djibouti Djibouti	3	0	0	3	000: 900	−9	00

Mon., November 23, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. (12:00 p.m. CEST) in Bahir Dar
South Sudan	-	Djibouti	2: 0 (1: 0)
Mon., November 23, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. (2:00 p.m. CEST) in Bahir Dar
Sudan	-	Malawi	1: 2 (1: 2)
Wed., November 25, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. CEST) in Bahir Dar
Malawi	-	Djibouti	3: 0 (2: 0)
Wed., November 25, 2015 at 8:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. CEST) in Bahir Dar
South Sudan	-	Sudan	0-0
Friday, November 27, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. CEST) in Bahir Dar
South Sudan	-	Malawi	2: 0 (1: 0)
Friday, November 27, 2015 at 8:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. CEST) in Bahir Dar
Djibouti	-	Sudan	0: 4 (0: 2)

Ranking of third party groups

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Sudan Sudan	3	1	1	1	005: 200	+3	04th
2.	Ethiopia Ethiopia	3	1	1	1	003: 200	+1	04th
3.	Burundi Burundi	3	1	1	1	002: 200	± 0	04th

Final round

game schedule

Quarter finals		Semifinals		final



Uganda Uganda	2

Malawi Malawi	0
		Uganda Uganda	²0 (5) ²

		Ethiopia Ethiopia	0 (3)
Tanzania Tanzania	²1 (3) ²

Ethiopia Ethiopia	1 (4)
				Uganda Uganda	1

				Rwanda Rwanda	0
Rwanda Rwanda	²0 (5) ²

Kenya Kenya	0 (3)
		Rwanda Rwanda	²1 (4) ²	Game for third place

		Sudan Sudan	1 (2)
South Sudan South Sudan	²0 (3) ²			Ethiopia Ethiopia	²1 (5) ²

Sudan Sudan	0 (5)			Sudan Sudan	1 (4)

¹ win after extra time
² win on penalties

Quarter finals

Mon., November 30, 2015 at 1:30 p.m. (11:30 a.m. CEST) in Addis Ababa
Uganda Uganda	-	Malawi Malawi	2: 0 (1: 0)
Mon., November 30, 2015 at 3:30 p.m. (1:30 p.m. CEST) in Addis Ababa
Tanzania Tanzania	-	Ethiopia Ethiopia	1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 0), 3: 4 i. E.
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 1:30 p.m. (11:30 a.m. CEST) in Addis Ababa
South Sudan South Sudan	-	Sudan Sudan	0: 0 a.d., 3: 5 i. E.
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 3:30 p.m. (1:30 p.m. CEST) in Addis Ababa
Rwanda Rwanda	-	Kenya Kenya	0: 0 n.v., 5: 3 i. E.

Semifinals

Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 12:30 p.m. (10:30 a.m. CEST) in Addis Ababa
Rwanda Rwanda	-	Sudan Sudan	1: 1 n.V. (0: 0), 4: 2 i. E.
Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. (1:00 p.m. CEST) in Addis Ababa
Uganda Uganda	-	Ethiopia Ethiopia	0: 0 n.v., 5: 3 i. E.

Game for third place

Sat, December 5, 2015 at 2:45 p.m. (12:45 p.m. CEST) in Addis Ababa
Ethiopia Ethiopia	-	Sudan Sudan	1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 0: 0), 5: 4 i. E.

final

Sat, December 5, 2015 at 5:45 p.m. (3:45 p.m. CEST) in Addis Ababa
Uganda Uganda	-	Rwanda Rwanda	1: 0 (1: 0)

Web links

The tournament on www.rsssf.com