Mathare Youth Football Club was a

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club based in

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.RSSSF
/ref> They played in the Kenyan Premier League, but were relegated in 2008. They last competed in the

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. The team was owned by the

Mathare Youth Sports Association MYSA logo Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA) is a sports development aid organization in Mathare, a collection of slums in Nairobi. In sports it focuses mainly on association football, and furthermore it is active in the field of community b ...

. The team was a feeder team for

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, until Mathare Youth were promoted to the Premier League to rival them. On 31 August 2012, the team disbanded and therefore pulled out of the

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, after which the

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decided to nullify all of their second round results. This meant that all teams that had played against them had their points revoked or given back, depending on the results of the matches, and all upcoming fixtures involving them were cancelled.

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