2006 CECAFA Cup
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | Ethiopia |
| Dates | 25 November – 10 December |
| Teams | 11 (from 2 sub-confederations) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Sudan (2nd title) |
| Runners-up |  Zambia |
| Third place |  Rwanda |
| Fourth place |  Uganda |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 23 |
| Goals scored | 48 (2.09 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Geoffrey Sserunkuma (3 goals) |
The 2006
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
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):
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Group A
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Tanzania
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | +5 | 9 |
 Ethiopia
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | +4 | 6 |
 Malawi
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 3 |
 Djibouti
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 | −10 | 0 |
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 |
| Burundi | 3–2 | Zambia |
|---|---|---|
Ndikumana  46' |
Report | Kalaba 67' Dube Phiri 88' |
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
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 4 |
 Somalia
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | −8 | 0 |
| Rwanda | 0–1 | Uganda |
|---|---|---|
| Sserunkuma 60' |
Knock-out stages
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| 5 December – Addis Ababa | ||||||||||
| Tanzania | 1 | |||||||||
| 8 December – Addis Ababa | ||||||||||
| Rwanda | 2 | |||||||||
| Rwanda | 0 | |||||||||
| 5 December – Addis Ababa | ||||||||||
| Zambia | 1 | |||||||||
| Ethiopia | 0 | |||||||||
| 10 December – Addis Ababa | ||||||||||
| Zambia | 1 | |||||||||
| pen.) | 0 (11) | |||||||||
| 6 December – Addis Ababa | ||||||||||
| Sudan | 0 (10) | |||||||||
| pen.) | 0 (4) | |||||||||
| 8 December – Addis Ababa | ||||||||||
| Malawi | 0 (2) | |||||||||
| pen. ) | 2 (6) | Third place | ||||||||
| a.e.t. ) | 1 | |||||||||
| pen.) | 0 (4) | |||||||||
| Uganda | 0 (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]
Semi-finals
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.
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]
| 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
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6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 4 | +3 | ||||
| n/a | Zambia
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5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 3 | +5 | ||||
| Third-place play-off | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Rwanda
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6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 3 | +2 | ||||
| 4 | Uganda
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6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 3 | +4 | ||||
| Eliminated in the quarter-finals | |||||||||||||
| 5 | Tanzania
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4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 4 | +4 | ||||
| 6 | Ethiopia
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4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 3 | +3 | ||||
| 7 | Burundi
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| 8 | Malawi
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4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | +1 | ||||
| Eliminated in the group stages | |||||||||||||
| 9 | Zanzibar
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2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | −4 | ||||
| 10 | Somalia
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | −8 | ||||
| 11 | Djibouti
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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
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