2006 CECAFA Cup
Tournament details
Host countryEthiopia
Dates25 November – 10 December
Teams11 (from 2 sub-confederations)
Final positions
Champions Sudan (2nd title)
Runners-up Zambia
Third place Rwanda
Fourth place Uganda
Tournament statistics
Matches played23
Goals scored48 (2.09 per match)
Top scorer(s)Uganda Geoffrey Sserunkuma (3 goals)

The 2006 Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup,[1] sometimes called the Al Amoudi Senior Challenge Cup due to being sponsored by Ethiopian millionaire Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi,[2] was the 30th edition of the international football tournament, which involved teams from Southern and Central Africa. The matches were all played in Addis Ababa from 25 November to 10 December.[3] It was competed between the same teams as the previous tournament, except for Eritrea, who did not enter due to their long-running clash with Ethiopia regarding borders,[2] and Kenya, the five-time champions,[2] were serving a ban which was issued on 18 October 2006, which was then an indefinite from international football by the decree of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association ('International Federation of Association Football'), or FIFA; this after Kenya "regularly violated or ignored" "Fifa's statutes, regulations and decisions".[4] Malawi and Zambia joined the tournament after being invited, and competed as guest teams as they were from the federation Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA), whereas the rest of the teams were from the Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA).[3] The reasoning behind their invitation was that it would "boost the competitiveness of this year's tournament".[2] The defending champions, Ethiopia, were knocked out in the quarter-finals after coming second in their group, and Sudan claimed their second title despite being beaten by Zambia, as Zambia were guests.

Background

The CECAFA Cup is considered Africa's oldest football tournament, and involves teams from Central and Southern Africa. The matches in the 1973 tournament were played from 22 September 1973 until 29 September 1973.[3] The tournament was originally the Gossage Cup, contested by the four nations of Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika (modern day Tanzania), and Zanzibar,[5] running from 1929 until 1965.[6] In 1967, this became the East and Central African Senior Challenge Cup, often shortened to simply the Challenge Cup, which was competed for five years, until 1971, before the CECAFA Cup was introduced in 1973.[5] Ethiopia were the defending champions, having won the 2005 tournament in Rwanda, after finishing second in their group, and going on to beat Zanzibar and Rwanda in the final. The 2006 champions Sudan failed, however, to emerge from the 2005 group stages.[7]

Participants

11 teams competed, four teams from the original tournament competed (excluding Tanganyika, which changed names and is currently called Tanzania).

Group stages

The group stage began on 25 November and ended on 3 December with Group C's final matches between Rwanda against Sudan, and Uganda against Somalia. Groups A and C contained four teams, but as there were only 11 partaking teams, group B contained only the three teams of Burundi, Zambia, and Zanzibar. At the end of the group stage, the team who finished bottom of their group was eliminated, whereas the teams who finished in positions other than last in the group progressed to the knock-out rounds.[3]

If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings (in descending order):

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Tanzania 3 3 0 0 7 2 +5 9
 Ethiopia 3 2 0 1 6 2 +4 6
 Malawi 3 1 0 2 4 3 +1 3
 Djibouti 3 0 0 3 0 10 −10 0
Source:
Ethiopia 1–2 Tanzania
Assefa 24' Report Maftah 40'
Admin 60'
Addis Ababa Stadium
Djibouti 0–3 Malawi
Report Wadabwa 6'
Mkandawire 52'
Munthali 82'
Addis Ababa Stadium
Tanzania 2–1 Malawi
Mrwanda 5'
Admin 90+'		 Report Wadabwa 15'
Addis Ababa Stadium
Ethiopia 4–0 Djibouti
Mebratu 26' (pen.)
Tesfaye 46'
Demeke 56' (pen.)
Wroku 63'
Addis Ababa Stadium
Ethiopia 1–0 Malawi
Mebratu 42'
Addis Ababa Stadium
Tanzania 3–0 Djibouti
Ngassa 8'
Sued 45+'
Tegete 58'
Addis Ababa Stadium

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Burundi 2 1 1 0 3 2 +1 4
 Zambia 2 1 0 1 6 3 +3 3
 Zanzibar 2 0 1 1 0 4 −4 1
Source:
Burundi 3–2 Zambia
Ndizeye 8'
Nzohabonayo 17'
Ndikumana 46'		 Report Kalaba 67'
Dube Phiri 88'
Addis Ababa Stadium
Burundi 0–0 Zanzibar
Addis Ababa Stadium
Zambia 4–0 Zanzibar
Phiri 34', 36'
Katongo 68'
Kalaba 74'
Addis Ababa Stadium

Group C

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Uganda 3 3 0 0 5 1 +4 9
 Sudan 3 1 1 1 4 2 +2 4
 Rwanda 3 1 1 1 3 1 +2 4
 Somalia 3 0 0 3 0 8 −8 0
Source:
Somalia 0–3 Rwanda
Kayihuwa 16'
Ujenza 87'
Nionzima 87'
Addis Ababa Stadium
Uganda 2–1 Sudan
Sserunkuma 77'
Masaba 87' (pen.)		 Ahmed 45'
Addis Ababa Stadium
Rwanda 0–1 Uganda
Sserunkuma 60'
Addis Ababa Stadium
Sudan 3–0 Somalia
Natali 15', 78'
Zakaria 68'
Addis Ababa Stadium
Rwanda 0–0 Sudan
Addis Ababa Stadium
Uganda 2–0 Somalia
Wangaluka 11'
Kadogo 17'
Addis Ababa Stadium

Knock-out stages

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
5 December – Addis Ababa
 
 
 Tanzania1
 
8 December – Addis Ababa
 
 Rwanda2
 
 Rwanda0
 
5 December – Addis Ababa
 
 Zambia1
 
 Ethiopia0
 
10 December – Addis Ababa
 
 Zambia1
 
 Zambia (pen.)0 (11)
 
6 December – Addis Ababa
 
 Sudan0 (10)
 
 Uganda (pen.)0 (4)
 
8 December – Addis Ababa
 
 Malawi0 (2)
 
 Uganda2 (5)
 
6 December – Addis Ababa
 
 Sudan (pen.)2 (6) Third place
 
 Burundi0
 
10 December – Addis Ababa
 
 Sudan (a.e.t.)1
 
 Rwanda (pen.)0 (4)
 
 
 Uganda0 (2)
 

Quarter-finals

The second quarter-final match, which was held on 6 December between Ethiopia and Zambia, was subject of an emergency meeting between Ugandan chair Dennis Obua, Ethiopian Ashebir W'Giorgis, Sundanian Ahmed Maazal, and the match commissioner who hailed from Zanzibar, Ali Ferej. At the meeting on the same day as the match, it was adjudged that the referee, Rwandan Issa Kagabi, had blown the final whistle to end the game too soon. Zambia stated that they would not partake in any rematch with Ethiopia, and in a similar fashion, the CECAFA secretary general Nicholas Musonye, absent from the meeting, cast aside the idea of a replay and called the makers of the decision "old farts", and delivered the ultimatum that if any replay went ahead, he would cancel the entirety of the tournament. After this, the Ethiopian Football Association did not seek a replay, and left the tournament after their loss.[3]

Tanzania 1–2 Rwanda
Uzamukunda 26' Report Ujenza 41'
Witkenge 55' (pen.)
Addis Ababa Stadium
Ethiopia 0–1 Zambia
Report Sakuwaha 87'
Addis Ababa Stadium
Uganda 0–0 (a.e.t.) Malawi
Penalties
Masaba soccer ball with check mark
Wangaluka soccer ball with check mark
Bangoole soccer ball with red X
Malinga soccer ball with check mark
Sserunkuma soccer ball with check mark		 4–2 soccer ball with red X Chavula
soccer ball with red X Munthali
soccer ball with check mark Namwera
soccer ball with check mark Kafoteka
Addis Ababa Stadium
Burundi 0–1 (a.e.t.) Sudan
Lado 94' (pen.)
Addis Ababa Stadium

Semi-finals

Rwanda 0–1 Zambia
Lwipa 24'
Addis Ababa Stadium
Uganda 2–2 (a.e.t.) Sudan
Kayizzi 16'
Sserunkuma 22'		 Galag 1'
Yousif 63'
Penalties
5–6
Addis Ababa Stadium

Third place play-off

The third place play-off was between Rwanda and Uganda. Rwanda were the 2005 runners up, and in that tournament beat Uganda in the semi-finals,[7] in 2006 they beat Uganda 4–2 on penalties to clinch third-place in the tournament.

Rwanda 0–0 Uganda
Penalties
4–2
Addis Ababa Stadium

Final

The final between Zambia and Sudan finished 0–0 after extra time, but Zambia won on penalties. Although Zambia won the final, the trophy was awarded to Sudan, who Zambia beat in the final. This was as Zambia were only a guest team, from the COSAFA federation, therefore the trophy was awarded to the highest finishing CECAFA federation team: Sudan.[3]

Zambia 0–0 (a.e.t.) Sudan
Penalties
11–10
Addis Ababa Stadium
 2006 CECAFA Cup champions 

Sudan
2nd title

Team statistics

Teams are ranked using the same tie-breaking criteria as in the group stage, except for the top four teams.[3]

Pos. Team Pld W D L Pts GF GA GD
1  Sudan 6 2 3 1 9 7 4 +3
n/a  Zambia 5 3 1 1 10 8 3 +5
08Third-place play-off
3  Rwanda 6 2 2 2 8 5 3 +2
4  Uganda 6 3 3 0 12 7 3 +4
08Eliminated in the quarter-finals
5  Tanzania 4 3 0 1 9 8 4 +4
6  Ethiopia 4 2 0 2 6 6 3 +3
7  Burundi 3 1 1 1 4 3 3 0
8  Malawi 4 1 1 2 4 4 3 +1
08Eliminated in the group stages
9  Zanzibar 2 0 1 1 1 0 4 −4
10  Somalia 3 0 0 3 0 0 8 −8
11  Djibouti 3 0 0 3 0 0 10 −10
Total 23(1) 17 6(2) 17 63 48 48 0

Updated to games played on 22 December 2006. Team(s) rendered in italics represent(s) the host nation(s). The competition's winning team is rendered in bold.
(1) – Total games lost not counted in total games played (total games lost = total games won)
(2) – Total number of games drawn (tied) for all teams = Total number of games drawn (tied) ÷ 2 (both teams involved)
(3) – As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

References

  1. ↑ "Mixed fortunes for Malawi, Zambia". BBC Sport. 27 November 2006. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Ethiopia chase third Cecafa Cup". BBC. 24 November 2006. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Ethiopia, November–December 2006". The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
  4. ↑ "Fifa suspends Kenya". BBC. 25 October 2006. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
  5. 1 2 Korir, Patrick (25 November 2009). "The CECAFA Fact File". futaa.com. Archived from the original on 5 June 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
  6. ↑ Onwumechili, Chuka; Akindes, Gerard (8 April 2014). Identity and Nation in African Football: Fans, Community and Clubs. ISBN 9781137355812.
  7. 1 2 "Rwanda, November–December 2005". The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
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