2021 Kagame Interclub Cup

2021 Kagame Interclub Cup

CECAFA Kagame Cup
Tournament details
Host country	Tanzania
Dates	1–14 August 2021
Teams	8 (from 12 associations)
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Express FC (1st title)
Runners-up	Big Bullets FC
Third place	KMKM FC
Fourth place	Azam FC
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	32 (2 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Paul Peter (Azam FC) Muzamiru Mutyaba (Express FC) Eric Kambale (Express FC) (3 goals each)
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The 2021 CECAFA Kagame Interclub Cup was 43rd edition of the Kagame Interclub Cup, a football competition for clubs in East and Central Africa, which is organised by CECAFA. It took place in Tanzania from 1 to 14 August 2021.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Participants clubs

The following eight teams will contest in the tournament.

Team	Appearances	Previous best performance
Azam FC	7th	Champions (2015, 2018)
Atlabara FC	4th	Quarter-finals (2014)
Big Bullets FC	Debut	n/a
Express FC	13th	Runner-up (1994, 1995)
KCCA FC	10th	Champions (1997, 2019)
KMKM FC	11th	Third place (1983)
Messager FC Ngozi	Debut	n/a
Young Africans FC	20th	Champions (1997, 1993, 1999, 2011, 2012)

Venues

The following two venues hosted for the matches of the tournament.

Dar es Salam	Dar es Salam	Dar es Salam
B. Mkapa Stadium		Azam Complex Stadium
Capacity: 60,000		Capacity: 10,000

Draw

The draw ceremony of the tournament were held on 28 July 2021 at Dar es Salam, Tanzania. Total eight team were divided into two groups.^[7]

Group summary

Group A	Group B
Young Africans SC Big Bullets FC Express FC Atlabara FC	KCCA FC Azam FC Messager Ngozi FC KMKM FC

Match officials

Group stage

Key to colour in group tables
	The top finisher in each group will qualify for the Knocokout-stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Express FC	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7	Advanced to Knockout stage
2	Big Bullets FC	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	5
3	Young Africans SC (H)	3	0	2	1	2	4	−2	2
4	Atlabara FC	3	0	1	2	0	3	−3	1

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Azam FC (H)	3	2	0	1	5	3	+2	6	Advanced to Knockout stage
2	KMKM FC	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
3	Messager Ngozi FC	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4
4	KCCA FC	3	1	0	2	1	3	−2	3

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Knockout stage

• In the knockout stage, extra-time and a penalty shoot-out will be used to decide the winner if necessary.

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	10 August—Dar es Salam
	Express FC	2
					14 August—Dar es Salam
	KMKM FC	1
					Express FC	1
	11 August—Dar es Salam
					Big Bullets FC	0
	Azam FC	2 (2)
	Big Bullets FC(p)	2 (4)
					Third place match
					14 August—Dar es Salam
					KMKM FC	1
					Azam FC	0

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Semi-finals

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Third place match

Final

Statistics

Goalscorers

There have been 32 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 2 goals per match.

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

References

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