Kagame Interclub Cup
The CECAFA Club Cup (French: Coupe UNIFFAC of clubs ), is a football club competition in Central and East Africa, who played since 1974 with a break (1990 ) annually and the Council for East and Central Africa Football Association ( CECAFA ), a sub-organization CAF is organized. After the competition is sponsored since 2002 by the Rwandan President Paul Kagame, he is also known as Kagame Inter- Club Cup. 1967 already an unofficial discharge took place, the (later: AFC Leopards ) the Abaluhya FC from Kenya to Dar Sunderland (later Simba SC) from Tanzania in the final 5-0 decision for themselves.
Eligible are in principle not the national champion from Ethiopia, Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, Zanzibar, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, with different countries also have two or more teams presented and two guest teams from the DRC approved were. The game is played in a tournament in a country usually associated with three groups of three to five teams. The two top-ranked of each group and the two best third will qualify for the quarter-finals. From this knockout system will be played until the final winner in the.