Rwanda Soccer Federation (FERWAFA) Secretary Common Bonnie Mugabe says the nation is able to host a profitable 2026 CAF Girls’s Champions League CECAFA Qualifying event, drawing on its current expertise staging main worldwide competitions.
The event will run from August 21-31 at two venues—Kigali Pelé Stadium and the FERWAFA Technical Centre in Remera.
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Talking at a pre-tournament press convention in Kigali on Wednesday, Mugabe mentioned all preparations have been in place to make sure the competitors meets the required requirements.
“We’re ready to host a profitable event. We’ve got simply concluded the CECAFA Kagame Cup, which was additionally hosted right here in Kigali, and we imagine we are able to ship the identical stage of organisation for the Girls’s Champions League qualifiers,” he mentioned.
“We’ve got hosted completely different competitions, together with the FIFA Collection, and we have now proven that Rwanda has the capability to organise tournaments of this stage. We’re able to welcome the groups and guarantee they’ve an excellent expertise right here.”
Mugabe clarified that, not like the CECAFA Kagame Cup—which Rwanda will host for 3 consecutive editions — the nation will solely stage this 12 months’s Girls’s Champions League regional qualifiers.
“That is the one version of the Girls’s competitors that Rwanda will host. We is not going to have three consecutive editions like we’re doing with the Kagame Cup,” he mentioned.
Rwanda shall be represented by Rayon Sports activities WFC, who reached the ultimate of final 12 months’s regional qualifiers.
Nikita Velverde Gicanda, FERWAFA Commissioner for Girls’s Soccer Growth, believes the Rwandan champions have a robust probability of going all the best way this 12 months.
“Rayon Sports activities have good possibilities. They reached the ultimate final 12 months, in order that they know what it takes to compete at this stage. We imagine they’ll go one step additional this 12 months and win the competitors,” she mentioned.
The event winner will earn the CECAFA Zone’s sole ticket to the CAF Girls’s Champions League finals.
