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According to Wallace Karia, the head of the Council of East and Central African Football Associations (CECAFA), Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda will co-host the 2024 African Nations Championship (CHAN).
The 16-team competition, which is only open to players participating in their home leagues, was sanctioned by the Kenyan government in October. However, according to Karia, the president of the Tanzania Football Federation (TFF), the event will now take place across the greater east African region.
“Next year in September, we’ve been given the CHAN hosting rights in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda and each nation, along with Zanzibar will provide one venue for the competition,” Karia said at an annual general meeting of the TFF in the southern Tanzanian town of Iringa on Saturday.
“We will ask CAF to group all the four teams of CECAFA in the draw to create the competition between us.”
In September, CAF announced that the three East African nations would share hosting duties for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations, bringing the biennial competition to the continent for the first time since Ethiopia hosted the championship game in 1976.
In January and February of 2023, Algeria played host to the last CHAN tournament, which Senegal won after defeating the host country on penalties in the championship match.
