Western Stima FC

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Basic data
Surname Western Stima FC
Seat Kakamega
founding 1997/2006
president Gabriel Otiende ???
First soccer team
Head coach Zedekiah Otieno ???
Venue Bukhungu Stadium
Places 5,000
league Kenyan Premier League
2013 12th place

Western Stima FC is a Kenyan football club from Kakamega that has played in the Kenyan Premier League (KPL) since 2008 . The club plays its home games in the 5,000-seat Bukhungu Stadium .

Western Stima was founded in 1997 in Kakamega and played in a Kenya Football Federation competition in the western they won. In the first league year they were second behind local rivals Pan Paper FC in the Western Province Super League . In the 2000 season, Western Stima became champions in the Nationwide League Western Zone . The relegation games for promotion to the KPL were lost and after a fourteenth place in the following season, the club was dissolved.

In 2006 the club was re-established and won the provincial league in the same year. in the 2006/07 season Western Stima played in the Nationwide League Zone A, was again champions and rose to the Kenyan Premier League. The best position in the KPL so far was eighth in the 2010 season.

Individual evidence

  1. Ian King, Hans Schlöggl: Kenya 2008. rsssf.com, February 26, 2009, accessed January 15, 2014 .
  2. Kenyan Premier League: Western Stima FC History ( Memento from November 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Ian King, Hans Schöggl: Kenya - List of Foundation Dates. rsssf.com, January 15, 2010, accessed January 15, 2014. rsssf.com, October 4, 2012, accessed January 15, 2014 .