2024 CECAFA U-20 Championship

2024 CECAFA U-20 Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Tanzania
Dates	6 –20 October
Teams	9
Venue(s)	3 (in 1 host city)

The 2024 CECAFA U-20 Championship is the 15th edition of the biennial CECAFA U-20 Championship tournament organised by the CECAFA. It will be hosted by Tanzania.

Uganda won previous edition title in 2022 and successfully defended their title. This competition served as the CECAFA qualifiers for the 2025 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations.

Teams

• Burundi
• Djibouti
• Ethiopia
• Kenya
• Rwanda
• Sudan
• South Sudan
• Tanzania
• Uganda

Did not enter

• Eritrea
• Somalia

Draw

The draw was held on 12 September 2024 at 12:00 EAT (UTC+3) at Dar es Salaam.The 9 teams were drawn into two groups of four and five teams, with hosts Tanzania seeded in Group A (position A1), and the defending champions Uganda seeded in Group B (position B1). The remaining 7 teams were allocated to two pots based on the results of the previous tournament edition and were drawn to the remaining positions.

Seeded	Pot 1	Pot 2
Tanzania (hosts) Uganda	South Sudan Sudan	Burundi Djibouti Ethiopia Kenya Rwanda

Group stage

All times are local, EAT (UTC+3).

The nine teams were drawn into two groups of four and five teams. The winners and the runners-up of each group advanced to the semi-finals.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tanzania (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Semi-finals
2	Sudan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Rwanda	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Djibouti	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Kenya	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source:
(H) Hosts

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Uganda	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Semi-finals
2	South Sudan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Burundi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Ethiopia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source: