Vihiga Queens F.C.

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Vihiga Queens F.C.
Full nameVihiga Queens Football Club
FoundedDecember 2013;9 years ago (2013-12)
Ground Kenya
Chairman & CEOMichael Senelwa Ogada
Head coachBoniface Nyamunyamu
League Kenyan Women's Premier League
2020–21 Kenyan Women's Premier League semi-final playoff

Vihiga Queens Football Club is a Kenyan professional women's association football club based in Mbale, Vihiga County that competes in Kenyan Women's Premier League, the top tier of Kenyan women's football. [1] The club is affiliated to the Football Kenya Federation. [2]

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The club has won the Premier League title on three consecutive occasions from 2017 to 2019. [3] [4] The team won the national league in 2019. [5] In 2021, they were selected as the representative for Kenya at the CECAFA qualifiers which won by beating Ethiopian team CBE by 2–1 in the finals and qualified them to the inaugural 2021 CAF Women's Champions League. [6] [7] [4] [8]

Honours

Domestic

League titles

Winners (record) (3): 2017, 2018, 2019

Continental

Winners (1): 2021

Managerial history

See also

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