Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations

Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations
Founded	1927
Association headquarters	Nairobi , Kenya
president	Nicholas Musonye
Secretary General
Homepage	www.cecafafootball.org

The Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations ( CECAFA ; German  Council of East and Central African Football Associations ) is a regional football association of the Confédération Africaine de Football . It has eleven member associations from East and Central Africa .

President is the Kenyan Nicholas Musonye . Headquarters is in Nairobi , Kenya .

history

CECAFA was founded in 1927 as the oldest regional football association in Africa. The first competition was organized from 1926 to 1966 under the name "Gossage Cup" and sponsored by the Kenyan company of the same name . Since 1966 was named the Eastern and Central Africa championship East and Central African Senior Challenge Cup , rather he in 1973 CECAFA Cup was renamed.

Member associations

• Ethiopia
• Burundi
• Djibouti
• Eritrea
• Kenya
• Rwanda
• Zanzibar
• Somalia
• Sudan
• South Sudan
• Tanzania
• Uganda

Competitions

National teams

• CECAFA Cup (since 1973), forerunners: Gossage Cup (1926 to 1966) and Challenge Cup (1967 to 1971)
• U-20 CECAFA Championship (since 1999)
• U-17 CECAFA Championship (since 2007)
• Women's CECAFA Championship (from 2016)

Club teams

• CECAFA Club Cup , also known as the Kagame Inter-Club Cup (since 1974)

Web links

• Official website CECAFA (English)