Gor Mahia participation in CAF Champions League unclear

Gor Mahia fans cheering their team in a past Premier League match. PHOTO / FILE

Nairobi, Kenya: Football Kenya Federation (FKF) has taken its hostilities with Kenya Premier League(KPL) a notch higher after it wrote confirming it may consider dropping Gor Mahia (seen as a key ally of KPL) from the list of Kenya’s representatives to continental assignments of 2015.

Through a communiqué to newsrooms, the FKF states that Gor Mahia having failed to confirm its participation through a letter, the club seems not interested in participating in this year’s CAF Champions League.

The letter states in part: “The federation has no option but to write to CAF and have Gor Mahia withdrawn forthwith from the CAF Champions League.” FKF had understandably written to the club to confirm if they intended to participate at the continent’s premiere club championships but Gor Mahia did not respond.

Observers see this as an intense move to force clubs in Kenya to toe the line of FKF in the wake of tough administrative battles that have lately graced Kenyan sports pages.

If the federation makes good its threat then it will be the first time since 1972 that Kenya is not represented at the Champions League. In that year though, the country was not represented because the 1971 league was scrapped midstream due to wrangles and loads of malpractices by clubs and other stakeholders.