Vihiga Queen’s Joan Nabirye in Crested Cranes squad for CECAFA assignments.

Vihiga Queen’s FC midfielder Joan Nabirye has been included in the final 23 squad of Uganda’s Crested Cranes that will feature in the just coming CECAFA Women Championships in Kampala Uganda starting from 3rd of June 2022.

The CECAFA Women Championships tournament is returning after a 3 year absence due to the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic that hit up in 2020 and will be hosted in Kampala, Uganda with eight teams from the East and Central Africa region set to participate in the tourney.

Crested Cranes who are the host are pooled in group A alongside neighbors Rwanda, Burundi and Djibouti while group B has 2019 finalists Kilimanjaro startles (Tanzania), Zanzibar, South Sudan and Ethiopia.

The 2022 CECAFA Women Championships edition will have a new champion at the end of the tourney as defending champions Harambee Starlets (Kenya) won’t be participating in the fixture due to the suspension that was subjected to Kenya by the world football governing body (FIFA) in February 2022.

Kenya won the 2019 edition that was hosted in Dar Es Salaam in the final beating Serengeti Queen’s (Tanzania) 2-0 in the final .