Kenya’s junior team has been disquafied from the Africa Cup of Nations U20 qualifiers for fielding ineligible players.

This after Sudan logged a formal complain to CAF for age cheating after Kenya forced a 1-1 draw against them in the first leg of the qualifiers in March.

They accused Kenya of fielding five players born before January 1997 contrary to regulations.

“Decision of the CAF U20 Organizing Committee on the protest made by Sudan FA on the ineligibility of Players during Match 11 Sudan vs. Kenya played in Khartoum on April 03rd 2016 CAF U-20 AFCON Qualifiers Zambia 2017.”

“Consequently, the U20 Kenyan National team is disqualified from the preliminaries of the AFCON U20 Zambia 2017 and the U20 Sudan National team is qualified to the next round.” A letter from CAF reads.

The return leg of the match was scheduled for Nairobi on Saturday 23.

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