The following article is a summary of the 2010

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season in

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, the 47th competitive season in its history.

Domestic leagues

Promotion and relegation

;Promoted to

Premier League The Premier League (legal name: The Football Association Premier League Limited) is the highest level of the men's English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Foo ...

* Mahakama *

Posta Rangers Posta Rangers Football Club is a Kenyan professional football club, based in Nairobi, which currently competes in the Kenyan Premier League. It competes in the Kenyan Premier League and competed in the 2012 KPL Top 8 Cup The KPL Top 8 Cup ...

;Relegated from

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* Bandari

Premier League The Premier League (legal name: The Football Association Premier League Limited) is the highest level of the men's English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Foo ...

The 2010 Kenyan Premier League began on 20 February 2010 and ended on 14 November, 2010.

Relegation

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and Mahakama, were relegated to the Nationwide League for the following season, but the former disbanded due to immense pressure from its sponsors to produce good performances.

Nationwide League

At the end of the 2010 season, Bandari and Congo JMJ United gained promotion to the Premier League for the following season.

Domestic cups

FKL Cup The FKF President's Cup (known as the Betway Shield cup for sponsorship reasons) is the top knockout tournament in Kenyan football. It was created in 1956, but during its existence the knockout tournament has had different names. It is the Kenya ...

Sofapaka Sofapaka Football Club (Sofapaka: Sote kama Familia kwa Pamoja Kuafikia Azimio – Kiswahili: ''We as a Family together to achieve a goal'') is a football club, based in Wundanyi, Taita Taveta County. They play their home games at the Wundan ...

beat West Kenya Sugar 2–0 in the final to lift the title for the second time their history.

Super Cup A super cup is a competition, usually but not exclusively in association football, which often forms the 'curtain raiser' to a season, and typically involves only two teams who have qualified through success in other competitions during the prev ...

The 2010 Kenyan Super Cup match was played on January 31, 2010, between

, the

2009 Kenyan Premier League The 2009 Kenyan Premier League was the sixth season of the Kenyan Premier League since it started in 2003 and the forty-sixth season of top division Association football, football in Kenya since 1963. It began on 7 February with Agrochemical F.C., ...

champions, and

A.F.C. Leopards Abaluhya Football Club Leopards Sports Club, officially abbreviated as AFC Leopards, or simply known as AFC, Leopards or ''Ingwe'' (), is a Kenyan association football club based in Nairobi. It currently competes in the Kenyan Premier League, t ...

, who clinched their 8th

FKL Cup The FKF President's Cup (known as the Betway Shield cup for sponsorship reasons) is the top knockout tournament in Kenyan football. It was created in 1956, but during its existence the knockout tournament has had different names. It is the Kenya ...

title the same year. Sofapaka won 1−0 at full-time.

International club competitions

Champions League

The 2010 CAF Champions League began on February 12, 2010, and finished on November 13, 2010.

qualified for participation in the tournament as

champions. They were knocked out on aggregate in the preliminary round by Ismaily, who advanced to the

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Confederation Cup

The 2012 CAF Confederation Cup began in February 2010 and ended in November 2010. A.F.C Leopards qualified for participation in the tournament as 2009

champions. They were knocked out on aggregate in the preliminary round by Banks, who advanced to the first round.

National team

Africa Cup of Nations The Africa Cup of Nations referred to as AFCON (french: Coupe d'Afrique des Nations, sometimes referred to as CAN, or TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons), and sometimes as African Cup of Nations, is the main internati ...

The national team participated in the qualification phase of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations. They finished third in their group and missed out on the

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CECAFA Cup

Kenya participated in the 2010 CECAFA Cup, but were knocked out in the group stages, finishing last in their group with no points.

Other matches

The following is a list of all other matches played by Kenya in 2010.

References

External links

Kenyan Premier LeagueFutaa
- Kenyan Football Portal
KenyaFootballAfrican Cup of Nations 2012 - Qualifiers
{{Kenyan football seasons, 2010