The following article is a summary of the 2012

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season in

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, which was the 49th competitive season in its history.

Domestic leagues

Promotion and relegation

;Promoted to

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Muhoroni Youth Muhoroni Youth Football Club is a football club from Muhoroni, Kenya, but plays its home matches at the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi. They currently compete in the Kenyan Premier League The Kenyan Premier League (KPL), officially known a ...

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;Promoted to

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* Kakamega Homeboyz * West Kenya Sugar (promoted as Kabrass United) * Zoo Kericho ;Relegated from

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Managerial changes

Premier League

Division One

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The 2012 Kenyan Premier League began on February 11, 2012, and ended on November 10, 2012, with a break that lasted from May 20, 2012, to June 23, 2012. On 21 August, the Kenyan Premier League and

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signed a KSh.170 million/= (

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2.02 million; £1.28 million sterling;

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1.62 million) deal for the renaming of the league to the Tusker Premier League, making it the most lucrative deal in Kenyan football history. On 18 October,

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signed a deal with the league for KSh.10 million/= (US$117,275; £73,242 stg.; €90,052) to make them the official ball supplier for the league and its clubs with immediate effect.

Women's Premier League

The 2012 Kenyan Women's Premier League began on March 3, 2012, and ended on October 7, 2012. Relegated Sotik Super Stars had been highlighted as an incompetent team after losing 14−0 to three different teams: MOYAS Ladies,

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and

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The Nationwide League had its name changed to

FKF Division One FKF Division One is the third tier in the Kenyan football league system. It has a promotion and relegation system with the Kenyan National Super League and the Kenyan Provincial League. It is controlled by the Football Kenya Federation. Most memb ...

at the beginning of the season. The 2012 FKF Division One season began on March 3, 2012, and ended on November 18, 2012, in both Zone A and B.

Zone A

On 31 August 2012, Mathare Youth disbanded and therefore pulled out of the league, after which the FKF decided to scrap all of their second round results. This meant that all teams that had played against Mathare Youth had their points revoked or given back, depending on the results of the matches, and all upcoming fixtures involving Mathare Youth were cancelled.

Zone B

Domestic cups

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The 2012 FKF President's Cup began on August 4, 2012, and ended on November 21, 2012. The FKF decided to change the quarter-final fixtures, meaning that

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and

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were to now face Karuturi Sports and

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respectively.

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 2012 Kenyan Super Cup match was played on February 5, 2012, between Tusker, the

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champions, and

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, the 2011

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winners. Tusker won 4−1 on

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after the match ended 1−1 at full-time.

Top 8 Cup

The 2012 KPL Top 8 Cup began on March 14, 2012, and ended on August 19, 2012.

International club competitions

Champions League

The 2012 CAF Champions League began on February 18, 2012, and ended on November 11, 2012. Tusker qualified for participation in the tournament as

champions. They were knocked out on aggregate in the

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by Armée Patriotique Rwandaise, who advanced to the

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Confederation Cup

The 2012 CAF Confederation Cup began on February 18, 2012, and ended on November 25, 2012.

qualified for participation in the tournament as 2011

champions. They were knocked out on aggregate in the

by Ferroviário de Maputo, who advanced to the

. The Mozambican club had also requested to postpone the second leg by a week.

Kagame Interclub Cup The CECAFA Club Cup is a football club tournament organised by CECAFA. It has been known as the Kagame Interclub Cup since 2002, when Rwandan President Paul Kagame began sponsoring the competition. It is contested by clubs from East and Central A ...

The 2012 Kagame Interclub Cup began on July 14, 2012, and ended on July 28, 2012. Tusker were invited to represent Kenya in the tournament as the

champions. They were knocked out in the group stage.

National teams

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The national team advanced to the

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of World Cup qualifications in Africa after beating

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7–0 on aggregate in the

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The national team participated in the first round of qualification to the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. They beat

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2–1 in the first leg on 29 February. However, they were beaten 1–0 in the second leg on 17 June and lost on

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. Therefore, they did not advance to the

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The national team participated in the

of qualification for the

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. The second leg was to be played on 5 January 2013.

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Kenya were to host the CECAFA Cup to be held at the end of the year, and it would've been the first time they host the tournament since

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and the sixth time overall. However,

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Secretary General Nicholas Musonye announced that the tournament was to be hosted in

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and not Kenya.

Other matches

The following is a list of all other matches played by the Kenya men's team in 2012.

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The following is a list of all matches played by the Kenya women's team in 2012.

References

External links

Kenyan Premier LeagueFutaa
- Kenyan Football Portal
KenyaFootballOrange CAN 2013
{{Kenyan football seasons, 2012

Domestic leagues

Promotion and relegation

Managerial changes

Premier League

Division One

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 ...

Women's Premier League

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Zone A

Zone B

Domestic cups

President's Cup The Presidents Cup is a series of men's golf matches between a team representing the United States and an International Team representing the rest of the world minus Europe. Europe competes against the United States in a similar but considerably ...

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 ...

Top 8 Cup

International club competitions

Champions League

Confederation Cup

Kagame Interclub Cup The CECAFA Club Cup is a football club tournament organised by CECAFA. It has been known as the Kagame Interclub Cup since 2002, when Rwandan President Paul Kagame began sponsoring the competition. It is contested by clubs from East and Central A ...

National teams

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World Cup qualification The FIFA World Cup qualification is a competitive match that a national association football team takes in order to qualify for one of the available berths at the final tournament of the (men's) FIFA World Cup. Qualifying tournaments are hel ...

Africa Cup of Nations qualification Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

African Nations Championship qualification African or Africans may refer to: * Anything from or pertaining to the continent of Africa: ** People who are native to Africa, descendants of natives of Africa, or individuals who trace their ancestry to indigenous inhabitants of Africa *** Ethn ...

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Other matches

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References

External links

African Nations Championship qualification African or Africans may refer to: * Anything from or pertaining to the continent of Africa: People who are native to Africa, descendants of natives of Africa, or individuals who trace their ancestry to indigenous inhabitants of Africa * Ethn ...