The Council for East and Central Africa Football Association (CECAFA) have announced groups for the inaugural boys’ Under-15 tournament.
The tournament will be held from August 16 to September 1 in Eritrea.
Eleven teams have confirmed participation and will compete under three groups.
The Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations (Cecafa) launched the first ever regional under-15 football tournament.
Eritrea last hosted a Cecafa tournament in 2010 on the occasion of the Under-20 Challenge Cup.
The new tournament, to be sponsored by the “Fifa Forward Programme” initiative, will be the first under-15 tournament to be staged in Africa.
The tournament is to help the region prepare for the Under-17 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers that start early next year.
The initiative to launch the tournament has been backed by Confederation of African Football president Ahmad Ahmad who attended the Cecafa meeting last month.
The groups are follows:
Group-A
Eritrea
Kenya
Burundi
Somalia
Group-B
Ethiopia
Uganda
South Sudan
Rwanda
Group-C
Tanzania
Djibouti
Sudan
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