The Council for East and Central African Football Associations (CECAFA) has called upon all member countries to pay up their annual subscription fees or risk being denied chance to feature in the Senior Challenge Cup.
“All member countries should pay up their subscription fees of US$1,500 or their teams will not be allowed to kick a ball when the 2013 CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup starts in Kenya nest week,” Rogers Mulindwa, the CECAFA Media Officer, toldMTNFootball.com this afternoon.
The regional tournament, which will attract 11 CECAFA member nations and guest side Zambia, will run November 27 to December 12 in three Kenyan towns.
Mulindwa, who issued tough guidelines, also warned that any team which causes a match to be abandoned will be disqualified and asked to leave in not more than 24 hours.
In 2010 TP Mazembe caused the abandonment of a match during a CECAFA Kagame Club Championship in Kigali, Rwanda, when they roughed up an Ethiopian referee.
The team was forced to fly out in four hours after the incident and CAF went ahead to ban them from the competition.
Among some of the rules and regulations issued by the CECAFA Secretary General, Nicholas Musonye, team lists must have only 20 players which cannot be altered, no player shall be allowed to use more than one shirt number during the tournament, teams eliminated in the preliminary stages will be required to leave within the next 24 hours unless there are absolutely no flight connections and starting line-ups must be confirmed to the CECAFA secretariat at least two hours before kick-off time.
Source: MTNFootball
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