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Azam-FC won the 2018 Cecafa Kagame Cup. The 2019 edition opens on July 9 until 21., with the winner taking home $30,000 The head of a regional soccer governing body Nicholas Musonye is clearly not a happy man, and is not shying away from displaying his anger. The Secretary General…

Local Government Minister Prof Anastase Shyaka is the brain behind the changes, and Kigali’s Mayor Marie Chantal Rwakazina has been the backup act. Top football league clubs based in the capital Kigali have started a process to form a single team – as government begins phasing out districts which previously…

There were hundreds of ordinary people taking part, in addition to the professional athletes (PHOTOS by Kigali Today) The nature of the route and how many athletes get prizes should be reviewed if the Kigali International Peace Marathon is to attract more talent, according to international athletes. The 15th edition…

Last week the preliminary squad travelled out of the country for a friendly game Newcomers to the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Burundi has released its 23-men squared for the 32nd edition of the continental championship with three players from the Rwandan league. Head coach Olivier Niyungeko confirmed the…

Rwanda’s national Volleyball National team and four other men’s national teams will fight for Zone 5 berth of the 2019 All Africa Games Zone 5 qualifiers, which gets underway in Nairobi, Kenya from today June 3 to 7, 2019. Hosts Kenya along with Egypt, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania will play…

All smiles for Police FC coach Albert Mpande The disciplinary committee of the national football federation (FERWAFA) has reviewed the tough punishment imposed on Albert Mpande, the Police FC head coach. The Committee partially upheld the appeal lodged by the Zambian coach Mpande. In decision issued May 18, but is…

The champions Rayon Sports FC commonly known as Gikundiro officially clinched the 2018/2019 Azam Rwandan football league, on Friday, May 24, 2019. With one game to spare, Rayon has been on Friday crowned the league champions after hammering Kirehe FC 4-0 away in the Eastern Province – to secure three…

Last year, Hakizimana Muhadjiri (R) was named the 2017/18 Ferwafa player of the year after scoring 13 goals. Here, he is handed the prize by Brig. Gen. Rtd. Sekamana Jean Damascène, the Ferwafa president Tanzanian football giants Simba FC has started behind-the-scenes talks with APR FC player Hakizimana Muhadjiri –…

Rayon Sports has a huge fan-base spread across the whole country even in areas of its competitors. Its fans are considered the most passionate about their team and are even funding some of its needs The draw is out for the 2019 Peace Cup football tournament, issued in Kigali this…

Muhanga FC (in yellow Jersey) dashed the title chances of giants APR this last weekend With only two fixtures left for the national football league curtain to fall, APR’s loss to struggling side Muhanga FC has granted the indomitable rival Rayon Sports an advantage to clinch this year’s league title.…

Andre Cassa Mbungo could be on the way to giving Kenyan side FC Leopard their dream Former Police FC and AS Kigali head coach Andre Cassa Mbungo on Saturday extended his contract with FC Leopard of Kenya until June 2021, the club confirmed. In Twitter post, FC Leopard said that…

Huye district-based Mukura VS beat national giants Rayon Sports FC 3-1 on penalties to win the 2018 Peace Cup National football body Ferwafa has set the draw for the 2019 Peace Cup Football Competition to be held on Wednesday May 22, 2019. Twenty teams will be placed in an open…

Patrick Gakumba nicked-name ‘Super Manager’ is nowhere to be seen He had committed to walk from Kigali to Nyagatare district, a distance of 173Km, if Barcelona FC lost to Liverpool in the UEFA Champions League. It did and now he is nowhere to be seen. Regionally well-known Rwandan football Agent…

Even after Divock Origi had pulled one back for Liverpool early on in the Tuesday night UEFA Champions League semi-final, Barcelona FC still looked set to advance as they went 3-1 on aggregate at half time. In Rwanda and elsewhere, some things, a little more strange, were in store that…

The Rwanda team in photo with Rwanda’s envoy in Zimbabwe James Musoni as they prepared for their tournament The women national cricket team made a perfect solid start to the International Cricket Council (ICC) Women’s qualifiers, Africa 2019 as they defeated Nigeria by 37 runs in their opening game in…

Rayon Sports fans are perhaps the most passionate about their team and are even funding part of its needs Districts across the country are cutting back on how much money they allocate to local football teams – a situation affecting the clubs, many of which do not have any other…

Rwanda Women Team (Right) in Nigeria where both sides faced each other in the five-day series recently Rwanda’s national women cricket team will face a tough test at the International Cricket Council Women Africa World Cup qualifier due in May – where it will for the first time get ranked…

The Ministry of Culture and Sports yesterday paid the full amount of money owed to a sacked football coach in respect of an order by global governing body FIFA. A spokesperson of the Ministry Karambizi Olivier Oleg, confirmed in statement to media houses that the $217,195 (Rwf 196m) had been…

Coach Djuma Masudi Irambona has been living on borrowed time at AS Kigali With seven games left to conclude the national football league, it is becoming rather straightforward that some coaches are now skating on thin ice. Their days as coaches for their respective clubs are numbered. The latest in…

Johnathan McKinstry also known as Johnny speaking to local media in Rwanda while he was here In March 2015, Rwanda hired an Irishman Johnathan McKinstry also known as Johnny, as head coach for the national football team Amavubi paying him $11,000 as monthly salary (about Rwf 7.5m at the time).…

Amavubi team has become tough-sell as it continues to perform poorly The latest football rankings released by the International Football body FIFA shows that Rwanda-Amavubi has dropped to the worst position in the last eighteen years. Rwanda gathered 1088 points dropping from 137th to 138th globally among 203 countries ranked…

If all stays as it is, APR FC is headed for its 18th title in 25 years The 2018 Rwanda Premier League title winner APR FC is keeping an unassailable lead of the 2019 table – putting the military side on the footing for another consecutive trophy. As if the…

On a typical day in a filthy training camp, Gicumbi FC goalkeeper is drinking alcohol. The conditions in which Gicumbi FC live was subject of major scandal recently. It is not the only team faced with such poor conditions (Photo by IGIHE) The 2019 African Cup of Nations Championships kicks…

The VAR system involves watching action remotely and drawing the match referees’ attention to officiating mistakes from a centralized video operation room Rwanda cannot afford the costs involved to install the latest Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technology in stadiums – even as several match officials are suspended for contested officiating,…

Grace Nyinawumuntu was awarded more than Rwf50m compensation by court The legal troubles of Grace Nyinawumuntu, a football coach accused of homosexuality by her players, and then fired by her employer AS Kigali team, are not about to end soon. She is preparing to appear in an appeals court over…

Eritrean Merhawi Kudus of Astana Pro Team has won the 11th Tour du Rwanda 2019 – in tough cycling journey that began last Sunday. Kudus has been donning the Yellow Jersey for last 2 Stages even when he did not win them. It is because, in the much long and…

Eritrean Merhawi Kudus could be on to win Tour du Rwanda 2019 Eritrean Merhawi Kudus did not win Stage 7 today of Tour du Rwanda, but will keep the much-prized Yellow Jersey. Kudus did not even come among Top 10 for the Kigali-Nyamata route of 84.1km – much of which…

On day Six, Erittean Merhawi Kudus has retained the yellow jersey as overall top cyclist of the grueling Tour du Rwanda so far. Polish Przemysław Kasperkiewicz of Delko Marseille Province won Stage Six Musanze-Nyamata. Kasperkiewicz was crowned in Nyamata after a tough largely sloping and flat 12.1 km ride for…

Tour du Rwanda in the villagers of northern Rwanda Another Eritrean Biniam Girmay is latest king of Tour du Rwanda as it enters a tougher phase. Girmay, the youngest cyclist among the dozens taking part rode unchallenged through Karongi-Musanze stage for 138.7 km. Five Rwandans made it in the top…

The Eritrean Merhawi Kudus of Pro Astana Team has won the longest stage of Tour du Rwanda, Huye-Rubavu, riding for 213.1 Km. He gets to also keep the Yellow Jersey because be won the Kigali-Huye Stage 2 route on Monday yesterday. The Huye-Rubavu route is also the longest that has…