The 2015

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 26 September and ended on 7 November. It is set to be contested by the top 8 teams of the 2014 season of the Kenyan Premier League:

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 ...

, Chemelil Sugar,

Gor Mahia Gor Mahia Football Club (), commonly also known as ''K'Ogalo'' (), is a football club based in Nairobi, Kenya. They have won the Kenyan Premier League a record 19 times, and have also won the FKF President's Cup a record 11 times. They are the o ...

, Muhoroni Youth,

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 ...

, Tusker and Ulinzi Stars. The winners of the tournament will receive KSh. in prize money. Tusker were the defending champions of the competition, having won their second title in the previous season after beating A.F.C. Leopards 2–1 in the final played at the Kinoru Stadium in

Meru Meru may refer to: Geography Kenya * Meru, Kenya, a city in Meru County, Kenya ** Meru County, created by the merger of *** Meru Central District *** Meru North District *** Meru South District * Meru National Park, a Kenyan wildlife park Tanza ...

. However, they were knocked out by eventual champions

in the semi-finals, beating

Sony Sugar SonySugar Football Club is an association football club based in Awendo, Kenya. It was competing in the Kenyan Premier League, the top tier of the Kenyan football league system, and played its home games at the Sony Green Stadium. Due to failure ...

in the final after

extra time Overtime or extra time is an additional period of play specified under the rules of a sport to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw where the scores are the same. In some sports, this extra period is played onl ...

to pick up their second title of the competition and their third title of the 2015 season.

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 and the

final Final, Finals or The Final may refer to: *Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which decides a winner for an event ** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of cont ...

, where the winning team immediately advances to the next round or wins the tournament, respectively. For the semi-finals, the tournament adopts a double-elimination 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 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.

2014 Kenyan Premier League standings

Bracket

Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 4 September. Teams placed first to fourth on the league table were placed in one pot, while teams placed fifth to eighth were placed in another pot.

Fixtures

The matches are scheduled to take place on the weekend of 26–27 September.

Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 27 September, after the final quarter-final between Tusker and

First leg

The first leg matches took place on 17 October.

Second leg

The second leg matches took place on 4 November. ''Sony Sugar win 5–3 on aggregate.'' ''Gor Mahia win 4–3 on aggregate.''

Final

The final was played on 7 November.

Goalscorers

;4 goals * Meddie Kagere (

) ;3 goals *

Michael Olunga Michael Olunga Ogada (born 26 March 1994) is a Kenyan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Qatari club Al-Duhail and captains the Kenya national team. Club career Early career and Gor Mahia While still a student at the Upper H ...

(

) ;2 goals *

Eugene Asike Eugene Ambuchi Asike (born 30 November 1993) is a Kenyan international footballer who plays for Swedish club Karlstad, as a centre back. Career Asike has played club football for Kenya Commercial Bank, Sofapaka and Tusker. In April 2022 he signe ...

( Tusker) * Andrew Ssekayombya (

) *

Jesse Were Jesse Jackson Were (; born 19 April 1989) is a Kenyan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Zambia Super League club Kansanshi Dynamos F.C. and the Kenya national team. He previously played for Mathare United and Tusker F.C. T ...

( Tusker) ;1 goal *

Ali Abondo Victor Ali Hassan Abondo (born 20 November 1989 in Kisumu) is a Kenyan footballer who currently plays for Wazito and the Kenya national team as a midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders m ...

(

) * Victor Ademba (

) *

John Baraza John Baraza (born 3 June 1974) is a Kenyan former footballer who played as a striker. He represented Kenya at the 2004 Africa Cup of Nations The 2004 African Cup of Nations, known as the NOKIA African Cup of Nations, Tunisia 2004 for sponsorsh ...

(

) * Marwa Chambiri (

) * Lamine Diallo (

) * Meshack Karani ( Chemelil Sugar) * Martin Kiiza (

) * Kevin Kimani ( Tusker) * David Mbatiye (

) *

Humphrey Mieno Humphrey Mieno Ochieng (born 25 December 1989 in Nairobi) is a Kenyan footballer who currently plays for Kenya Premier League side Tusker F.C. and the Kenya national team as a midfielder. He previously played for A.F.C. Leopards, Sofapaka and ...

( Tusker) * Justine Monda (

) * Felly Mulumba (

) * Ekaliana Ndolo (

) * George Odhiambo (

) * Byron Odiaga (

) * Samuel Olwande ( Chemelil Sugar) * Brian Osumba ( Tusker) * Collins Shivachi (

) * Oscar Wamalwa ( Ulinzi Stars) ;1 own goal * Collins Shivachi (

; against

)

Team statistics

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

Notes

References

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