The 2009 CECAFA U-17 Championship was the 2nd edition of the CECAFA U-17 Championship organized bt CECAFA (Council of East and Central Africa Football Association. The second edition of the CEFAFA U-17 Championship, all games were originally to be played in Nairobi, Kenyahttp://allafrica.com/stories/200809190175.html but have since been moved to Sudan. due to financial reasons, the Sudanese FA and El Merreikh Investment Group have agreed to sponsor the tournament.
The cup is also referred to as the Bashir Cup and the Hassan el Bashir Cup by East African media due to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir's involvement.
There is a possibility that a third group will be based at Kessala.
Participants
Djibouti withdrew from tournament
Sudan was banished from the tournament for fielding sixteen over-age players.
(invited)Egypt withdrew from the tournament and was not replaced by another team (invited)Nigeria withdrew from tournament and were replaced by Malawi
Officials List of officialsNationalityReferee(s)Assistant referee(s) Burundi — Hakizimana Jean Marie Djibouti Hassan Ali Mohamed — Eritrea Luleseged Ghebremichael Muhamed Hugush Ethiopia — Tilahun FekaduMuhamed Sultan Kenya Thomas Onyango Elias Wamalwa Rwanda Issa Kagabo — Somalia — Olad Arab Bashir Sudan Mohamed HusseinEl-Nigomi AhmedRassaz Librato Medany MustafaSaeed SalihKhalafala Abdel AzizAhmad Ali Waleed Tanzania Israel Mujuni Erasmo Jesse Uganda Dennis Batte — Zanzibar — Josephat Bulali
Group stage
Group A
Group B
Group C
Knockout stage In the knockout stages, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time is played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winners.
Bracket
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
References