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No sure bet for KPL as teams struggle with financial crisis

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Kenyan Premier League (KPL) is reeling from its ‘hat-trick’ of blows barely a week to the start of the 2019/20 season as its management and member clubs scramble to put together a competition befitting its top-flight status.

In March 2017, South African pay television SuperSport pulled the plug on its lucrative five-year deal that was injecting Sh145m to the then 16-member clubs per year over the expansion of the league to 18-team affair.

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