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2024 Chan: Kasarani Stadium to host final match

Kasarani Stadium

A view of a section of Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani on June 10, 2025.
 

Photo credit: Sila Kiplagat | Nation Media Group

By  Victor Otieno

Reporter

NMG Sport

What you need to know:

  • Kenya will co-host the 19-team tournament alongside Uganda and Tanzania from August 2 to 30. 
  • Caf indicated that it had agreed on venues for the opening match, the third-place play-off, and the final.

Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani will host the final of the delayed 2024 African Nations Championship (Chan) tournament on August 30. 

In a statement on Thursday, African football governing body Caf said that the 55,000-seater stadium will host the final of the second-tier African national football team tournament.

Kenya will co-host the 19-team tournament alongside Uganda and Tanzania from August 2 to 30. 

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Chan is a biennial football tournament which is exclusively reserved for players who are plying their trade in their respective domestic leagues. Caf also indicated that it had agreed on the venues for the opening match, the third-place play-off, and the final after consultations with the three host nations. 

The opening match

Tanzania’s Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Dar es Salaam will host the opening match on August 2, while Mandela Stadium in Kampala, Uganda has been designated to host the third –place play-off. 

Kenya will host Group “A” matches, featuring the host team, Morocco, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Zambia.

Tanzania will stage Group “B” teams that features Madagascar, Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Central African Republic while Group “C” composed of Uganda, Niger, Guinea, South Africa and Algeria will be based in Kampala. 

Tournament co-hosts

In what is a new development, Caf has designated Zanzibar as the venue for Group “D” teams, namely, Senegal, Equatorial Guinea, Sudan and Nigeria. Equatorial Guinea replaced Congo in Group “D” following a decision of the CAF Appeals body.

This will be the first that the three East African countries are co-hosting the tournament. They are also scheduled to co-host the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations. Rwanda hosted the 2016 Chan.

Kenya was stripped of the right to host the 2018 Chan due to inadequate preparations and the competition moved to Morocco. With exactly 44 days to go before kick-off, Kenya is in a race against time to have all its venues ready including Nyayo National Stadium.

The designated training facilities include MISC Annex ground, Police Sacco Stadium, Ulinzi Sports Complex and Kirigiti Stadium in Kiambu.