2025 CECAFA Women's Championship

CECAFA Women's C'ship 2025
Mashindano ya CECAFA kwa Wanawake 2025
Tournament details
Host country	Tanzania
City	Dar es Salaam
Dates	13–21 June
Teams	5 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Tanzania (3rd title)
Runners-up	Kenya
Third place	Uganda
Fourth place	Burundi
Tournament statistics
Matches played	10
Goals scored	34 (3.4 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Opah Clement ; (5 goals)
Best player(s)	Diana Msewa
Best goalkeeper	Najiati Idrissa
	← 2022 TBD→

Last updated July 18, 2025

The 2025 CECAFA Women's Championship (Swahili : Mashindano ya CECAFA kwa Wanawake 2025) was the sixth edition of the CECAFA Women's Championship and the fifth to be held since the tournament's Reintroduction in 2016. It was an international women's football tournament contested by the women's national association football teams of East Africa, organized by the Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA). Tanzania hosted the tournament from 13 to 21 June 2025.^[1]^[2]

Uganda were the defending champions, having won their first title on home soil in the last edition.^[3] However, they were unable to defend their title, winning only one of their four matches, which stood as their worst performance in the competition to date.^[4]^[5] In contrast, hosts and most successful side Tanzania secured their third title, defeating Kenya 1–0 on the final matchday.^[6] Twiga Stars's captain Opah Clement won the Golden Boot for the second consecutive time, netting five goals during the competition.

Teams

Participating teams

On 2 June 2025, CECAFA confirmed the participation of 4 of its member associations, with more teams expected to confirm in the coming days.^[7] On 5 June, it was confirmed that five (of 11 teams) would take part in the final tournament.

Note: All appearance statistics exclude the 1986 edition.

Team	App.	Previous best performance	WR ^[a]
Burundi	4th	Runners-up (2022)	178
Kenya ^[9]	4th	Champions (2019)	142
South Sudan	3rd	Group stage (2019, 2022)	193
Tanzania	5th	Champions (2016, 2018)	138
Uganda ^[10]	5th	Champions (2022)	148

↑ As of the latest FIFA Women's World Ranking, published on 6 March 2025.^[8]

Did not enter

Squads

Each national team had to submit a squad of 20 players, two of whom must be goalkeepers by the deadline.

Match officials

CECAFA appointed 6 referees, 5 assistant referees for the tournament.

Referees

Joselyne Nsabimana
Lucy Juma
Emmanuela Akoo

Stella Sebit
Tatu Malogo
Diana Murungi

Assistant referees

Anitha Niyokindi
Elizabeth Njoroge
Glory Tesha

Zawadi Hashim
Immaculate Ongiera

Main tournament

The official match schedule was confirmed by CECAFA on 5 June 2025.^[12] A slight adjustment was made after South Sudan's late arrival due to logistical challenges, with the first two matchdays, originally set for 12 and 14 June, rescheduled to 13 and 15 June.^[13]

All times are local, EAT (UTC+3).

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
	Tanzania	4	4	0	13	0	+13	12
	Kenya	4	3	1	11	1	+10	9
	Uganda	4	1	3	5	7	−2	3
4	Burundi	4	1	3	2	12	−10	3
5	South Sudan	4	1	3	3	14	−11	3

Source: CECAFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Matches

13 June 2025