Uganda league champions KCCA FC have been drawn against Angola\u2019s Clube Desportivo 1\u00ba de Agosto in the preliminary round of the CAF Champions League.<\/p>\n
In a draw conducted on Wednesday December 21 at the CAF Headquarter in Cairo, the Ugandan representative will host the first leg in Kampala before travelling for a return leg a week\u00a0later.<\/p>\n
In case Mike Mutebi\u2019s charges get past that stage, reigning African champions Mamelodi Sundowns, home to Ugandan goalie Denis Onyango is lurking in the final round with the winner making the group stages as the new format suggest four groups.<\/p>\n
A closer look at CECAFA clubs<\/strong><\/p>\n Elsewhere, El Merriekh of Sudan where Ugandan goalie Jamal Salim plies his trade take Sony Nguema of Equatorial Guinea, Burundi\u2019s Vital\u2019O takes on Mounana of Gabon, Zambia\u2019s Zanaco faces Rwanda\u2019s APR while Tanzania\u2019s Yanga will play Ngaya de Mbe of Comoros.<\/p>\n Nsimbe\u2019s Tusker faces AS Port Louis of Mauritius<\/strong><\/p>\n George \u2018Best\u2019 Nsimbe will have AS Port Louis of Mauritius to contend with in the preliminary round with Sudan\u2019s Hilal waiting the next round.<\/p>\n The first legs will be hosted on the weekend of February 11-13, 2017 with the return leg a week later between February 17-19, 2017.<\/p>\n Prize Money\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n There is $550, 000 (about Shs1.83b) for finishing fourth and third in the group of the CAF Champions League.<\/p>\n It\u2019s $650,000 (about Shs2.16b) for all quarter finalists and $875,000 (about Shs2.9b) for the semifinalists from $700,000 (about Shs2.3b) while the runner-ups take home $1,250,000 (about Shs830b), 25% better than$1m they were getting initially<\/p>\n The overall cash prize for the 2017 champions has had a 66.67% increment from $1.5m (about 4.5b) to $2.5m (about Shs8.3b).<\/p>\n SELECTED DRAWS<\/strong><\/p>\n KCCA (Uganda) Vs<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Clube Desportivo 1\u00ba de Agosto (Angola)<\/p>\n El Merriekh (Sudan) Vs Sony Nguema (Equatorial Guinea)<\/p>\n Vital\u2019O (Burundi) Vs Mounana (Gabon)<\/p>\n Zanaco (Zambia) Vs APR (Rwanda)<\/p>\n Yanga Africans (Tanzania) Vs Ngaya de Mbe (Comoros)<\/p>\n Tusker (Kenya) Vs AS Port Louis (Mauritius)<\/p>\n STORY BY KAWOWO SPORTS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Uganda league champions KCCA FC have been drawn against Angola\u2019s Clube Desportivo 1\u00ba de Agosto in the preliminary round of the CAF Champions League. In a draw conducted on Wednesday December 21 at the CAF Headquarter in Cairo, the Ugandan representative will host the first leg in Kampala before travelling for a return leg a week\u00a0later. In case Mike Mutebi\u2019s charges get past that stage, reigning African champions Mamelodi Sundowns, home to Ugandan goalie Denis Onyango is lurking in the final round with the winner making the group stages as the new format suggest four groups. A closer look at CECAFA clubs Elsewhere, El Merriekh of Sudan where Ugandan goalie Jamal Salim plies his trade take Sony Nguema of Equatorial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":26445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}