| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | Ethiopia |
| City | Addis Ababa, |
| Dates | 3-15 October 2022 |
| Teams | 10 (from CAF confederations) |
| Venue(s) | 1 (in 1 host city) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Somalia (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  South Sudan |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 10 |
| Goals scored | 30 (3 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |  Sylvester Otto (4 goals) |
The 2022 CECAFA U17 Championship was the 5th CECAFA U-17 Championship organized by CECAFA (¨Council of East and Central Africa Football Association). It took place from October 3 to October 15, 2022 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia .[1]
This competition also served as the CECAFA qualifiers for the 2023 Africa U-17 Cup of Nations as the two finalists of the tournament represented CECAFA in the CAF U-17 continental competition.
The ten teams were initially drawn into two groups of five teams. Ethiopia, Tanzania, Somalia, South Sudan and Eritrea were drawn into Group A and Uganda, Djibouti, Sudan, Burundi and Rwanda were drawn into Group B. However, on 26 September, Eritrea and Rwanda withdrew from the competition, leaving both the groups with four teams.[2][3] On 1 October, Djibouti and Sudan were disqualified from the tournament after some of their players failed the MRI test, leaving Group B with only two teams.[4] The winners and the runners-up of each group advanced to the semi-finals.
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- ^ "Eritrea, Rwanda withdraw from U-17 AFCON qualifiers". cecafaonline.com. 26 September 2022.
- ^ Gyimah, Edmund Okai (28 September 2022). "Rwanda withdraws from Cecafa U-17 tourney". New Times. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
- ^ "Djibouti, Sudan disqualified from U-17 AFCON qualifiers". CECAFA. 1 October 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2022.