The Football Kenya Federation (abbreviated as Football Kenya or FKF) is the governing body of

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. The FKF organizes the

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, the Kenyan Women's Premier League, FKF Division One, FKF Women Division One and Kenya national football teams. It is headed by

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History

The Federation was founded in 1960 as a

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affiliation, in 1961 it was a CAF affiliation, and later it was a

CECAFA The Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations ( sw, Baraza la Mashirikisho ya Mpira wa Miguu Afrika Mashariki na Kati, french: Conseil des Associations de Football d'Afrique de l'Est et Centrale, ar, مؤتمر جمعيات شر� ...

affiliation in 1973. On November 2011, Football Kenya Limited (FKL) was disbanded as it wanted to cease being a

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. 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 of Kenyan football has been seen by the Kenyan public as a dark time with money often unavailable for use by the national team, this extended into international based players such as

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often having to pay for their own flights to and from international matches In February 2016 Nick Mwendwa who ran as part of the "Team Change" took over from Nyamweya Mwendwa's plans include the changing of the KPL format to an 18 team league and re-open the long closed FIFA goal project office at the

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. In April 2016, The ladies national team, the Harambee Starlets qualified for their first-ever AFCON set to be hosted in Cameroon in 2016. In June 2016, FKF moved its offices to FIFA goal project at Kasarani stadium. FKF and betting company

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signed a 5-year partnership in June 2016

Suspension

On November 2022,

lifted the suspension against the Kenya Football Federation (FKF), following the local government's decision to reinstate the body after disbanding it over suspicions of corruption.

References

External links

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Constitution
of the Football Kenya Federation
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at the CAF website
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at the

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