The East Africa Cup (EAC) is a youth football tournament for both boys and girls between and including the ages 12–16 held annually in the last week of June in Moshi, Kilimanjaro-Tanzania.  

The tournament is organized by five partner organizations namely; Norwegian Peoples Aid (NPA), KRIK Norway, CHRISC East Africa and Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA). EAC is inspired by Norway cup which has had a similar event running for the last 30 years, only on a much larger scale of over 1500 teams from all around the world. 

The tournament was first held in June 2004, it is gaining a lot of interest and is now very strong and growing.  This year, the targeted number of youth was 54, however due to uncertainty and limitations in funding, the tournament will have 46 football teams and four cultural teams. The tournament is first and foremost about education and awareness building, sports is the chosen tool used to achieve this. 

Vision

Empower youth through sports 

Mission

To develop an annual quality tournament for Youth in Eastern Africa. Gather youth from the Eastern Africa region and Norway where the focus is on education as much as football. 

Objectives

  1. Give Health Information (HIV/AIDS, First Aids and Drug abuse) through sports, drama, dance and seminars/ workshops.
  2. Create awareness of and engage youth in environmental issues.
  3. Train youth on leadership and administration.
  4. Increase the awareness and competence on sports related issues e.g. sports medicine, coaching and refereeing.
  5. Be the leading football tournament in terms of quality for Youth in East Africa.
  6. Develop moral values through workshops and seminars.
  7. To address gender issues through sports, workshops and seminars.
  8. Strengthen the partnership among the involved organizations.
  9. Observe the FIFA Fair play rule in EAC

 
 
LATEST NEWS

East Africa cup 2010 is here; the biggest youth tournament in Africa has been scheduled to start from 17th to 26th June 2010, youths both boys and girls from Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda are expected to participate in this exciting event to be held in Moshi the city of Mount Kilimanjaro. The tournament this year has attracted teams from different area within East and central Africa; we will have teams from as far as the semi arid Northern Province of Kenya the North Eastern province, another team from Bukoba in the shores of lake Victoria and for the first time we will have two teams coming all the way from Zambia



This year about 1200 youths both boys and girls from around 60 teams are expected to participate in the tournament; and as it has been our goal to have an equal representation of both boys and girls teams, this year we will draw closer to achieving that equality, more on the exact number of teams and pooling will be posted watch this space.



Besides football we will have 3 different seminars prior to the tournament, a soccer refereeing seminar will be held from 19th to 21st June, participating in the seminar are young referees from partner organization CHRISC East Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda) and Mathare Youth Sport Association.



After a successful training last year BBC your game will also be having a training this year prior and during the tournament, this training will be with a focus on how sports and development organizations can utilize media to their advantage in marketing and publicity



The third seminar to be held prior to the tournament will be Kicking Aids out Leader level one and Leader level two, this is the first time that Kicking Aids out secretariat will be involved in training LL1and LL2s during East Africa cup the seminar will be held from 17th to 21st 2010 participant for these two seminars will be chosen from among partners participating in the tournament.

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