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2020 CECAFA U-17 Championship
The 2020 CECAFA U17 Championship was the 4th CECAFA U-17 Championship organized by CECAFA (Council of East and Central Africa Football Association). It took place from 12 to 22 December 2020 in Gisenyi, Rwanda. This competition also served as the CECAFA qualifiers for the 2021 Africa U-17 Cup of Nations as the two finalists of the tournament represented CECAFA in the CAF U-17 continental competition. The 6 participating teams were drawn into 2 groups. The winners and the runners-up of each group advanced to the semi-finals. Venue *Umuganda Stadium, Gisenyi - Rubavu Teams * * * * * * * - Disqualified * - Withdrew * - Withdrew * - Withdrew Match officials Referees * Djaffari Nduwimana (Burundi) * Emmanuel Mwandembwa (Tanzania) * Sabri Mohamed Fadul (Sudan) * Tewodros Mitiku (Ethiopia) * Mohamed Diraneh (Djibouti) * Omar Abdulkadir Artan (Somalia) * Israël Mpaima (Kenya) * Sammuel Uwikunda (Rwanda) (Rwanda) * (Ms) Shamirah Nabadda (Uganda) * Ronald Madanda (Uganda) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Confederation Of African Football
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) is the administrative and controlling body for association football, beach soccer, and futsal in Africa. It was established on 8 February 1957 at the ''Grand Hotel'' in Khartoum, Sudan. At the FIFA Congress in 1954 held in Bern, Switzerland, it was voted to recognize Africa as a Confederation. Representing the African geography of association football, confederation of FIFA, CAF organizes runs and regulates national team and football team, club #CAF competitions, continental competitions annually or biennially such as the Africa Cup of Nations and Women's Africa Cup of Nations, which they control the prize money and broadcasting of sports events, broadcast rights to. CAF will be allocated 9 spots at the FIFA World Cup starting from 2026 FIFA World Cup, 2026 and could have an opportunity of 10 spots with the addition of an intercontinental play-off tournament involving 6 teams to decide the last 2 FIFA World Cup places (46+2). The main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ethiopian Football Federation
The Ethiopian Football Federation (EFF) (Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ እግር ኳስ ፌዴሬሽን) is the governing body of Football (soccer), football in Ethiopia. It organizes all tiers of the national football league and the Ethiopia national football team, national team. It was one of the founding members of the Confederation of African Football, Confederation of African Football (CAF). History The Ethiopian Football Federation was founded in 1943 and became affiliated with FIFA in 1952. In 1957 the EFF along with its Egyptian, Sudanese, and South African counterparts founded Confederation of African Football, CAF. In October 2013, the federation elected Juneidi Basha as its new president to replace Sahilu Gebrewold. Beating out three other candidates, Basha received the majority of votes (55 of the 101 votes) at the Federation's General assembly. Juneidi Basha, Juneydi Basha, represented the eastern region of Dire Dawa, was a businessman before becoming football federat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2021 Africa U-20 Cup Of Nations
The 2021 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations was the 16th edition (23rd edition if editions of the tournament without hosts are included), the biennial international youth association football, football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for players aged 20 and below. In September 2018, it was decided that the tournament would be hosted by Mauritania. This would be the first edition of the Africa U-20 Cup of Nations to be expanded to 12 teams instead of eight. The top four teams of the tournament would have normally qualified for the 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Indonesia as the CAF representatives. However, FIFA decided to cancel the tournament on 24 December 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The defending champions Mali national under-20 football team, Mali failed to qualify. Ghana won their fourth title by defeating debutant Uganda in the final. Qualification At the end of the qualification phase, eleven teams will join the hosts Mauritania. Player e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Knockout Stage
A single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, whose winner becomes the tournament champion(s). Some match-ups may be a single match or several, for example two-legged ties in European sports or best-of series in North American pro sports. Defeated competitors may play no further part after losing, or may participate in "consolation" or "classification" matches against other losers to determine the lower final rankings; for example, a third place playoff between losing semi-finalists. In a shootout poker tournament, there are more than two players competing at each table, and sometimes more than one progresses to the next round. Some competitions are held with a pure single-elimination tournament system. Others have many phases, with the last being a single-elimination final stage, of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Format
Format may refer to: Printing and visual media * Text formatting, the typesetting of text elements * Paper formats, or paper size standards * Newspaper format, the size of the paper page Computing * File format, particular way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file ** Document file format, for storing documents on a storage media, especially for use by computer ** Audio file format, for storing digital audio data on a computer system ** Video file format, for storing digital video data on a computer system * Content format, encoded format for converting a specific type of data to displayable information * Disk formatting, preparing computer hard disks to store data, destroying any existing contents ** FORMAT (command), a command-line utility to format disks in many computer operating systems * Format (Common Lisp), a programming function for formatting printed output * Format (Fortran 66), a programming statement for formatting printed output * Format (Algo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
South Sudan Football Association
The South Sudan Football Association (S.S.F.A.) is the governing body of football in South Sudan. It was established in April 2011 and is an affiliate of CECAFA, Confederation of African Football, CAF and FIFA. In club football, the SSFA oversee the South Sudan Football Championship, South Sudan Premier League, South Sudan National Cup, the national cup and South Sudan Super Cup, Super Cup. Formation and history In April 2011, the Government of South Sudan's (GOSS) minister for Youth, Sports and Recreation, Makuac Teny Youk issued a ministerial order establishing the Provisional Football Association. The association was in office for one year and managed, promoted and supervised football affairs in South Sudan. It was led by Oliver Mori Benjamin as President, Doub Foj Jok as Vice President, Rudolf Andera Oujika as Secretary General, and Jaden Jada Solomon as the Treasurer. It had a total of 17 members. In May 2011, Malesh Soro was appointed as the first manager of the South Sudan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Federation Of Uganda Football Associations
The Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) is the governing body of association football in Uganda. The association was founded in 1924, became affiliated with FIFA in 1960 and the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in 1961. In 1973, FUFA went ahead and got affiliated with CECAFA. Further more, FUFA is also affiliated to Uganda Olympic Committee. FUFA is; * a custodian of eight men's and women's national football teams (i.e. the Uganda Cranes, the Crested Cranes, U-23; Uganda Kobs, U-20; Uganda Hippos, U-17; Uganda Cubs, Sand Cranes, U-20 girls and U-17 girls) * a top administrator/regulator of national football league which runs from the first tier (top/1st division) to the fifth tier (5th division). The first division is the Uganda Premier League also known as the StarTimes Uganda Premier League. The 2nd division is the FUFA Big League. The third tier (Regional Leagues) is organised by the regional football associations (RFA) which are 8 in total (Kampala RFA, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Rwandese Association Football Federation
The Rwanda Football Federation ( French: ''Fédération Rwandaise de Football Association'', FERWAFA; "Rwandan Association Football Federation"), is the official governing body of association football in Rwanda. It was founded in 1975 and affiliated with CAF and FIFA in 1976 and 1978, respectively. It organizes the Rwanda Premier League and the Rwanda Women's Football League and oversees the men's and women's national teams. Principals External linksOfficial Website at the FIFA website Rwanda at CAF Online Rwanda FA on Twitter References {{DEFAULTSORT:FeDeratio ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Football Kenya Federation
The Football Kenya Federation (abbreviated as Football Kenya or FKF) is the governing body of football in Kenya. The FKF organizes the Kenyan Premier League, the Kenyan Women's Premier League, FKF Division One, FKF Women Division One and Kenya national football teams. It is headed by Hussein Mohammed. History The Federation was founded in 1960 as a FIFA affiliation, in 1961 it was a CAF affiliation, and later it was a CECAFA affiliation in 1973. In November 2011, Football Kenya Limited (FKL) was disbanded as it wanted to cease being a limited company. The Football Kenya Federation (FKF) replaced FKL, but most of the new executive positions were retained by their former occupants on FKL. FKF FKF was headed by Sam Nyamweya between 2011 and 2015. During this time Nyamweya was heavily linked to embezzlement of federation funds. This period in Kenyan football has been seen by the Kenyan public as a dark time, with money often being unavailable for use by the national team. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Somali Football Federation
The Somali Football Federation (SFF) ( Somali: Xiriirka Soomaaliyeed ee Kubbadda Cagta) ( Wadaad: اتحاد الصومال لكرة القدم), was founded in 1951, and it is one of the national administrative governing bodies of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) responsible for organizing and controlling the sport of football and its competitions (the first, second, and third divisions, as well as the Somalia Cup) in the Federal Republic of Somalia, they also manage the Somalia national football team. In 1962, the SFF became a FIFA member. It later joined CAF in 1968, and the Union of Arab Football Associations (UAFA) in 1974. The SFF is responsible for organizing matches between local teams and enforcing rules and regulations of the game during matches. History On August 19, 2017, the Somali Football Federation (SFF) closed its headquarters for seven days to mourn the death of Osman Jama Diraa, a member of the executive committee who was killed in the capital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Djiboutian Football Federation
The Djiboutian Football Federation (; ; FDF) is the governing body of association football in Djibouti. It was founded in 1979, and affiliated to FIFA and the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in 1994, and has been a member of the Union of Arab Football Associations (UAFA) since 1998. The Federation oversees the Djibouti Premier League and the Djibouti national football team, national team. Logos File:Djibouti FF (logo).png, Former logo File:Emblême Fédération Djiboutienne de Football.png, Present logo See also *Football in Djibouti *Djibouti Premier League *Djibouti national football team *Djibouti Cup *Stade du Ville References External linksDjiboutiat the FIFA website.Djibouti at CAF Online National members of the Confederation of African Football, Djibouti Football in Djibouti Sports organizations established in 1979 1979 establishments in Djibouti Sports governing bodies in Djibouti, Football Association football governing bodies in Africa, Djibouti M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sudan Football Association
The Sudan Football Association (S.F.A.) () is the governing body of football in Sudan. It was established in 1936 and affiliated with FIFA in 1948. Along with the national associations of Egypt, Ethiopia and South Africa, the Sudan Football Association was one of the founding members of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in 1957. The International Federation of Football Associations, FIFA, decided to suspend the activities of the Sudan Football Association (SFA) starting from Friday 30 June 2017. The suspension was lifted on Thursday 13 July 2017. Logos Presidential history * Abdel Halim Muhammad * * Mamoun Mubark Aman * Kamal Shaddad (1988''–''1995) * Omer Al Bakri Abu Haraz (1995''–''2001) *Kamal Shaddad (2001''–''2010) * Mutasim Jaafar Sarkhatm (2010''–''2017) *Kamal Shaddad (2017''–''2021) *Mutasim Jaafar Sarkhatm (2021''–''present) National Teams ;Men *Sudan national football team * Sudan national under-23 football team * Sudan national under-20 foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
