Kenya National U20 Team Rising Stars will do history as they participate in The TotAnergies Caf below 20 African Nations Nations (AFCON) in Egypt.

The team under the coach Salim Babu will be involved in the tournament that was to lead from 27. to 18. April, 2025, for the first time in the country’s history.

18. Edition (25. If the editions of the tournament without hosts) will have 13 nations of combat continental supremacy and four qualifying sites on the FIFA World Cup in Chile 2025. Years.

During the final line implemented by the Confederation of African football (CAF) after the Ivory Coast withdrew as the hosts of the host, Kenya were drawn in group B with a record seven-off champion NigeriaFormer winners Tunisia and Morocco.

Host Egypt, which are triple champions, the main group A, where they were selected, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Tanzania, and in groups of Chip, Dr. In the same year, they became the only African team who won FIFA U-20 World Cup.

When is the opening match and what time of starting?

Kenya will start their group equipment against Morocco Thursday, 1 MayAt the 30th June Stadium in Cairo (start time 21: 00h they eat). However, the tournament will start on Sunday, 27. April with two group match lined up.

Zambia will take over Sierra Leone, who was just like Kenya, first participated in this stage, before the host of Egypt Confront South Africa. Both matches will be played on the stadium in the Suez canal.

The second fixed stars will be against tunis on Saturday, 4th May (Start time 18: 00hr Eat), before wrapping group preliminary matches against Nigeria on Wednesday, 7. May (Start time 18: 00h eat). All Kenyan group matches will be played at the Stadium from 30. June.

Which places will be the host of the tournament?

The host country for the final stage of the edition was decided at the Annual Meeting of the Executive Board for 2024 CAF and CAF awards in Marrakech, Morocco, 16. December, 2024. year, with CAF naming ivory coast as hosts.

However, March 26, 2025. It was announced that the Ivory Coast withdrew as the hosts, also replied their automatic qualification capacity. The new host country has not been released immediately.

But 27. March 2025. It was announced that Egypt replaced the Ivory Coast as the hosts. Egypt has previously submitted an offer for hosting tournaments during the initial competition procedures. The introductory match is pushed one day until 27. April.

The four places will give the tournament, the first is the International Stadium Cairo, the Olympic Standard, the multipurpose stadium with a priest capacity of 75,000. The stadium is located about 10 km west of Cairo International Airport, and about 10 km from the center of Cairo. In 2005. was renovated in the preparation for the African Cup in 2006. years (AFCON).

Second place will be a Stadium since 30. June, where the Kenyan stars will rise to play their group matches. The stadium has a capacity of 30,000, and one of the places of the Egyptian Premier League, and the terrain of the Egyptian Premiere League on the side of the FC pyramid

The Canal Suez Stadium in Ismailia will be a third place for young tournament. The stadium currently has a capacity of 22,000. It was demolished and fully reconstructed between 2019. and 2022. years.

Suez Stadium, the multipurpose stadium located in Suez, Egypt, will also host some games. The stadium, which has a capacity of 27,000 people, and opened in 1990. years, was one of the places for 2019. AFCON with eight matches of competition played in the stadium.

Where can you watch the match on TV?

Confederation of African football (CAF) will provide a lynch link for all matches, starting from the introductory game to the finals. The World Administrative Bodies FIFA will also provide a connection with live coverage.

Locally, no television has confirmed that they will radiate Egypt matches.

How did the stars align to qualify?

The journey of the stars on the continental tournament marked resilience and hunger for success, and the detachment is determined to show its potential in a large phase.

Kenya reserved their map on the continental show after the strong showing at the qualifications of CECAFA U20 in 2024. years, where they finished a second, a closely losing the finals in Tanzania.

Their path to the final saw them dominate the competition with a number of excellent performance, including Commander 4-0 victory over Burundia in the semifinals.

The growing stars left undefeated throughout the tournament, with four victories and one drawing, score 14 goals and embracing only one. Despite the fall of the short in the finals of Tanzania, their overall presentation showed the world that the Kenyan Mladic is on the rise.

The qualification was a large turning point for the development of football for young countries, giving rising stars the opportunity to compete on the continental phase and exhibit their talent against Africa the best.

While the growing stars have yet to earn silver accessories in this age category, their consistent development at the youth level suggests that they will be an incredible force in the competition.

Key Players for Kenya

Although he will enter the tournament as an insidious, Kenya has some players who previously impressed and could help them be far in competition.

Some of their key players include Amos WanjalaWhich on the front led as Kenya qualified for the tournament that goes unbeaten throughout the entire and display of their attack light with 14 goals scored and only one received.

MANZUR OBWARO and Ezekiel Omuri Others are players in Kenya Passenger squad. The strong presence of Okwaro on the back, leadership and defense firm makes it one of the most reliable players of Kenya, while it is overwhelmed by speed and technical ability to constantly threat to naked.

What did the coach told Salim Baba say?

Babu confidently convinced the East African nation to do everything in their resources to come out of the group phases of the tournament.

“While everyone knows that Kenya has never been at this stage before, we will definitely move on to the tournament, but we will know that we will know about the team in the team and know what we want, and where do we want to go” Babu said FlashScore.

“If we win our first and second match, we are in neighborhoods, and that is our main target, nothing else, we want to go out of the group, nothing will be spared until we are spared until we achieve the goal.”

Babu, however, remained careful: “It’s not an easy group as many people insinuate, we have to do our best and when we go there, we must have a plan on the tournament, we need to know what we seek and what we want to achieve.”

Growing star of the captain Baron Ochieng She said Kenya would not be afraid of anyone during the tournament in the northern African nation.

“He is not afraid of Morocco, which is why he drew well from group stages, maybe we could appear against them, maybe even relatives, so we don’t have to be afraid facing them or anyone at the group phase.”

Sofapak player concluded: “So we’re ready for the task that you’re going to go well before you, because we don’t have to blame the time if we’re not going to Nairobi, and we’re going to play, so we have to adjust, we’ll surely adjust to time.”

The tournament will follow three group formats. The group and contains five teams, while groups B and C have four teams. The upper two teams from each pool, along with the two best third-placed teams, are progressing in the quarterfinals, and the tournament concludes 18. May 2025. Years.