CECAFA Cup
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The CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup is the oldest football (soccer) tournament in Africa. It is a tournament of FIFA and the Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA), and includes national teams from Central and East Africa. In 2005 and 2006 the tournament was sponsored by Ethiopian/Saudi billionaire Sheikh Mohammed Al Amoudi, and was dubbed the Al Amoudi Senior Challenge Cup[1].
It is the successor tournament of the Gossage Cup, held 37 times from 1926 until 1966, and the East and Central African Senior Challenge Cup, held 7 times between 1965 and 1971.
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The Gossage Cup was contested between Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and Zanzibar. Tanganyika participated since 1945, Zanzibar since 1949. It was sponsored by soap manufacturer William Gossage.
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| Champion | Score | Second Place | Third Place | Score | Fourth Place | ||||
| 1973 Details |
Uganda | Uganda |
2 - 1 | Tanzania |
Zambia |
Kenya |
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| 1974 Details |
Tanzania | Tanzania |
1 - 1 (5 - 3) pk |
Uganda |
Zambia |
Zanzibar |
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| 1975 Details |
Zambia | Kenya |
0 - 0 (4 - 3) pk |
Malawi |
Uganda |
Tanzania |
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| 1976 Details |
Zanzibar | Uganda |
2 - 0 | Zambia |
Malawi |
Kenya |
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| 1977 Details |
Somalia | Uganda |
0 - 0 (5 - 3) pk |
Zambia |
Malawi |
2 - 1 | Kenya |
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| 1978 Details |
Malawi | Malawi |
3 - 2 | Zambia |
Kenya |
2 - 0 | Uganda |
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| 1979 Details |
Kenya | Malawi |
3 - 2 | Kenya |
Tanzania |
2 - 1 | Zanzibar |
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| 1980 Details |
Sudan | Sudan |
1 - 0 | Tanzania |
Malawi |
1 - 0 | Zambia |
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| 1981 Details |
Tanzania | Kenya |
1 - 0 | Tanzania |
Zambia |
1 - 0 | Uganda |
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| 1982 Details |
Uganda | Kenya |
1 - 1 (5 - 3) pk |
Uganda |
Zimbabwe |
3 - 0 | Zanzibar |
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| 1983 Details |
Kenya | Kenya |
1 - 0 | Zimbabwe |
Uganda |
1 - 0 | Malawi |
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| 1984 Details |
Uganda | Zambia |
0 - 0 (3 - 0)pk |
Malawi |
Uganda |
3 - 1 | Kenya |
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| 1985 Details |
Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe |
2 - 0 | Kenya |
Malawi |
3 - 1 | Uganda |
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| 1987 Details |
Ethiopia | Ethiopia |
1 - 1 (5 - 4) pk |
Zimbabwe |
Uganda |
1 - 0 | Zanzibar |
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| 1988 Details |
Malawi | Malawi |
3 - 1 | Zambia |
Kenya |
0 - 0 | Zimbabwe |
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| 1989 Details |
Kenya | Uganda |
3 - 3 (2 - 1) pk |
Malawi |
Kenya |
1 - 0 | Zambia |
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| 1990 Details |
Zanzibar | Uganda |
2 - 0 | Sudan |
Tanzania |
2 - 1 | Zanzibar |
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| 1991 Details |
Uganda | Zambia |
2 - 0 | Kenya |
Uganda |
3 - 1 | Sudan |
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| 1992 Details |
Tanzania | Uganda |
1 - 0 | Tanzania B |
Zambia |
4 - 0 | Uganda |
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| 1994 Details |
Kenya | Tanzania |
2 - 2 (4 - 3) pk |
Uganda |
Kenya |
1 - 0 | Eritrea |
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| 1995 Details |
Uganda | Zanzibar |
1 - 0 | Uganda B |
Kenya |
2 - 2 (5 - 4) pk |
Ethiopia |
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| 1996 Details |
Sudan | Uganda |
1 - 0 | Sudan B |
Sudan |
1 - 1 (5 - 4) pk |
Kenya |
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| 1999 Details |
Rwanda | Rwanda B |
3 - 1 | Kenya |
Rwanda |
0 - 0 (3 - 2) pk |
Burundi |
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| 2000 Details |
Uganda | Uganda |
2 - 0 | Uganda B |
Ethiopia |
1 - 1 (5 - 3) pk |
Rwanda |
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| 2001 Details |
Ethiopia | Ethiopia |
2 - 1 |
Kenya |
Rwanda A |
1 - 0 | Rwanda B |
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| 2002 Details |
Tanzania | Kenya |
3 - 2 | Tanzania |
Rwanda |
2 - 1 | Uganda |
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| 2003 Details |
Sudan | Uganda |
2 - 0 | Rwanda |
Kenya |
2 - 1 | Sudan |
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| 2004 Details |
Ethiopia | Ethiopia |
3 - 0 | Burundi |
Sudan |
2 - 1 | Kenya |
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| 2005 Details |
Rwanda | Ethiopia |
1 - 0 | Rwanda |
Zanzibar |
0 - 0 (5 - 4) pk |
Uganda |
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| 2006 Details |
Ethiopia | Sudan Awarded to Sudan because Zambia is just a guest |
0 - 0 (10 - 11) pk |
Zambia |
Rwanda |
0 - 0 (4 - 2) pk |
Uganda |
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| 2007 Details |
Tanzania | ||||||||
| Wins | Nation | Year(s) |
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| 9 | 1973, 1976, 1977, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2003 | |
| 5 | 1975, 1981, 1982, 1983, 2002 | |
| 2 | 1984, 1991 | |
| 3 | 1987, 2004, 2005 | |
| 3 | 1978, 1979, 1988 | |
| 2 | 1974, 1994 | |
| 2 | 1998, 2001 | |
| 2 | 1980,2006 | |
| 1 | 1985 | |
| 1 | 1995 |
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