2025 CAF Women's Champions League CECAFA Qualifiers

2025 CAF Women's Champions League CECAFA Qualifiers
Tournament details
Host countryKenya
CityNairobi
Dates4 -16 September 2025
Teams9 (from 9 associations)
Venue(s)2 (in 1 host city)
2024
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The 2025 CAF Women's Champions League CECAFA Qualifiers is the 5th edition of CAF Women's Champions League CECAFA Qualifiers tournament organized by the CECAFA for the women's clubs of association nations. This edition will be held in Nairobi, Kenya from 4 to 16 September 2025.[1]


The winners of the tournament qualify for the 2025 CAF Women's Champions League final tournament.

Participating clubs

The following eight teams contested in the qualifying tournament.

Team Appearances Previous best performance
Ethiopia CBE 5th Champion (2024)
Eritrea Denden SC 1st n/a
Burundi Top Girls Academy 1st n/a
Kenya Kenya Police Bullets 2nd Runner-up(2024)
Rwanda Rayon Sports FC 2nd Group stage2024)
South Sudan Yei Joint Stars 5th Group stage (2021, 2022, 2023,2024)
Tanzania JKT Queens 2nd Champion (2023)
Uganda JKU Princess FC 1st Debut

Venues

Match officials

Referees

Assistant Referees

Draw

Group stage

Tiebreakers

Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings.

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
  8. Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
  9. Drawing of lots.

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage

Awards and statistics

Goalscorers

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References

  1. ^ "Kenya to host CAF Women's Champions League CECAFA qualifiers". cecafaonline. 6 August 2025. Retrieved 16 August 2025.