The highly anticipated 2025 CAF African Schools Football Championship group stage draws took place on Monday, April 21, 2025 at the offices of Multi Choice Limited Ghana.
Legends Asamoah Gyan (Ghana) and Clementine Toure (Cote d’Ivoire) conducted the official draws for the tournament, set to kick off the thrilling U15 football extravaganza at the University of Ghana in Accra. Other African legends, Adjoa Bayor(Ghana) and Amanda Dlamini (South Africa) were also present.
A total of sixteen teams have been pitted into four groups, each comprising four teams, in both the girls’ and boys’ categories.
Ugandan representatives in the girls’ football category, St Noa, have been drawn into Group B alongside defending champions South Africa, DR Congo, and The Gambia.
Meanwhile, hosts Ghana will face Morocco, Benin, and Malawi in Group A of the girls’ football tournament, setting the stage for some thrilling matches.
In the boys’ football category, Uganda’s St Mary’s Kitende has been drawn into Group A with hosts Ghana, South Africa, and Algeria.
Defending champions Tanzania has been pitted against Senegal, DR Congo, and Cote d’Ivoire in Group B of the boys’ football tournament, guaranteeing a high level of competition.
The U15 tournament is scheduled to kick off on Wednesday, April 23, 2025, and will culminate on April 26, 2025.
Both Ugandan representatives have already arrived in Ghana, ready to battle it out for glory.
The top two teams in each group will progress to the semifinals, making every match a crucial step towards the championship title.
After the third training session in Accra at Nania Park, Uganda girls’ team Head Coach Jimmy Kintu expressed the team’s readiness to battle every opponent.
“We have had our third recovery training session, the girls’ bodies are responding well. We are training under the hot sun which is a two sided effect, we have to get used to it because we are to play under the same environment.” Jimmy Kintu, Uganda Girls Football Team Head Coach.
“It is a tough draw, but again this is the level where we are supposed to compete, the girls are also to come out tough and we see how we can achieve our targets” Kintu added.
All groups.
GIRLS:
GROUP A: Ghana (Hosts), Morocco, Benin, Malawi
GROUP B: South Africa (Defending Champions), Uganda, DR Congo, The Gambia
BOYS
GROUP A: Ghana (Hosts), Uganda, South Africa, Algeria
GROUP B: Tanzania (Defending Champions), Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire (debut), DR Congo
Following the draws, CAF also confirmed the fixtures for the prestigious championship.
Uganda boys team will kick off with host Senegal in the championship official opening game to be played at the University of Ghana Pitch 1 at 11:30 AM local time, (2:30 PM EAT) and will be live on CAF TV.
On Thursday 24th, the team will play two games against Algeria at 11:00 AM local time and South Africa at 3:00PM local time while it will be 2:00 PM and 6:00 PM EAT respectively.
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The girls team will kick off the championship with South Africa at University of Ghana Pitch 1 at 10:00 AM local time, 1:00 PM EAT.
The team’s last two group stage fixtures will be played on Thursday 24th against The Gambia and Democratic Republic of Congo at 10:00 AM local time and 2:00 PM local time while it will be 1: 00 PM and 5:00 PM in East African Time.
This will not be the first time Uganda is meeting South Africa and The Gambia having been placed in the same group at the last edition in Zanzibar where Uganda drew with South Africa and beat The Gambia before being knocked out by Morocco on the semi finals. The girls later finished third after winning the third place playoff against hosts Tanzania 1-0 courtesy of Cynthia Kirenga’s lonely strike who is also part of this year’s team in Ghana.
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Alongside the championship, safe guarding and capacity building classes will also be running to shape the future, professional football administrators, medics, referees and reporters.
Former Ghana Football Federation Communications Manager, Ibrahim Sane Daara, facilitating the opening session of the CAF Young Reporters Program. Photo By: CAF Media