| Founded | 2016 |
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| Region | Eastern Africa (CECAFA) |
| Current champions |  Uganda (1st title) |
| Most successful team(s) |  Tanzania (2 titles) |
| Website | Official website |
 2022 CECAFA Women's Championship | |
The CECAFA Women's Championship, also called Women's Challenge Cup, is an association football tournament for teams from Eastern Africa organized by Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA).
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The first tournament was played in Zanzibar in 1986 and won by the host team. [1] After that there was no tournament for the next thirty years. The try for reviving the women's championship in the CECAFA region had been attempted in Zanzibar for October 2007. [2] But the tournament was cancelled and never played. The next edition then was proposed for 2016. [3]
That 2016 edition was hosted by Uganda and played in Jinja. There were no other bids to host the tournament. [4] Tanzania won the championship and also Burundi were playing their first official FIFA recognized games ever. [5]
The 2018 edition was again won by Tanzania. [6]
| Editions | Years | Hosts | Finals | Third place playoff | Number of teams | |||||||
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| Winners | Scores | Runners-up | Third place | Score | Fourth place | |||||||
| X | 1986 |  Zanzibar |  Zanzibar | ? | ||||||||
| 1 | 2016 | Uganda |  Tanzania | 2–1 |  Kenya |  Ethiopia | 4–1 |  Uganda | 7 | |||
| 2 | 2018 |  Rwanda | Tanzania | round-robin | Uganda | Ethiopia | round-robin | Kenya | 5 | |||
| 3 | 2019 | Tanzania | Kenya | 2–0 | Tanzania | Uganda | 2–0 |  Burundi | 8 | |||
| 2021 |  Djibouti | Cancelled due to reconstruction of the stadium | 8 | |||||||||
| 4 | 2022 | Uganda | Uganda | 3–1 | Burundi | Ethiopia | 2–1 | Tanzania | 8 | |||
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| Team | 1986 | 2016 | 2018 | 2019 | 2022 | Years |
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 Ethiopia | 3rd | 3rd | GS | 3rd | 4 | |
 Kenya | 2nd | 4th | 1st | × | 3 | |
 Tanzania | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 4th | 4 | |
 Uganda | 4th | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 4 | |
 Rwanda | GS | 5th | × | GS | 3 | |
 Burundi | GS | × | 4th | 2nd | 3 | |
 Zanzibar | 1st | GS | × | GS | GS | 4 |
 Sudan | × | 0 | ||||
 Djibouti | × | × | GS | GS | 2 | |
 South Sudan | GS | GS | 2 | |||
 Eritrea | × | × | × | × | 0 | |
 Somalia | 0 | |||||
| Total (12 Teams) | ? | 7 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
The women's regional tournament returns after 30years of absence. Zanzibar hosted and won the last edition in 1986.
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