The 2014

KPL Top 8 Cup The KPL Top 8 Cup (also known as the KPL Top 8 Knockout, the KPL Top 8 Knockout Cup or simply the Top 8 Knockout, the Top 8 Cup or the Kenyan Top 8 Cup) is a Kenyan Football (soccer), football championship contested by the top eight teams of the ...

was the fourth edition of the tournament, which kicked off on 5 April and ended on 15 June. to be contested by the top 8 teams of the 2013 season of the

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: A.F.C. Leopards, Bandari,

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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 ...

, Thika United, Tusker and

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. Having won their first title the previous season, defending champions Tusker retained their title after beating A.F.C. Leopards 2–1 in the

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played at the Kinoru Stadium in

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Competition format

The tournament follows a

single-elimination A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final matc ...

format for the

quarter-finals A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final matc ...

and the

, where the winning team immediately advances to the next round or wins the tournament, respectively. For the

semi-finals A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final matc ...

, the tournament adopts a

double-elimination A double-elimination tournament is a type of elimination tournament competition in which a participant ceases to be eligible to win the tournament's championship upon having lost ''two'' games or matches. It stands in contrast to a single-elimina ...

format, where a team must win two legs to advance to the final. If both teams are equal on aggregate goals at the end of the two legs, a

penalty shoot-out The penalty shootout is a method of determining a winner in sports matches that would have otherwise been drawn or tied. The rules for penalty shootouts vary between sports and even different competitions; however, the usual form is similar to pen ...

will be conducted to determine who advances to the final. The

away goals rule The away goals rule is a method of tiebreaker, tiebreaking in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. Under the away goals rule, if the total goals scored by each team are equal, the ...

also applies in this round.

2013 Kenyan Premier League standings

Bracket

Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 26 March, and the ties scheduled for 5−6 and 19−20 April.

Fixtures

Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 22 April.

First leg

The first leg ties of the semi-finals were played on 7 and 25 May.

Fixtures

Second leg

The second leg ties of the semi-finals were played on 4 and 11 June.

Fixtures

''Tusker win 2–1 on aggregate.'' ''A.F.C. Leopards win 4–1 on aggregate.''

Final

The final was played on 15 June.

Top scorers

Team statistics

, - , colspan="20", Eliminated in the semi-finals , - , - , colspan="20", Eliminated in the quarter-finals , -

Notes

References

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