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The 2026 CAF Women's Champions League CECAFA qualifier final is Kawempe Muslim Ladies against Kenya Police Bullets. It will be played on Saturday at the Kigali Pele Stadium. One ticket to the continental final is available. Both clubs have been chasing it since Addis Ababa in 2024, when they finished third and second respectively as CBE won the whole tournament. The semi-finals in Kigali on Thursday produced results emphatic enough to confirm that both finalists are here on merit, not on fortune.
Kawempe Muslim Ladies beat Commercial Bank of Ethiopia 3-0 in the first semi-final, a result that exceeded the margin of any previous competitive meeting between the two clubs and that answered in the most decisive available terms the question of whether Uganda's champions had grown since their 2-1 semi-final defeat to the same opponent in Addis Ababa two years ago. Jovia Nakaologo scored in the 17th minute and again in the 54th. Agnes Nabukenya, whose 12th-minute penalty had beaten CBE in the group stage earlier in the week, added a third in the 73rd minute. Three goals, three different phases of the match, a performance coach Ayub Khalifa Kiyingi described simply as the girls executing perfectly. CBE, who won the 2024 CECAFA qualifiers and represented the region at the CAF Women's Champions League finals, were beaten across 90 minutes without managing a goal in reply. The result sets a new standard for what Kawempe can produce at regional level.
Bullets 5-0 Yei: The Scoreline That Confirms Kenya's Ambition
The second semi-final produced an equally decisive statement. Kenya Police Bullets beat Yei Joint Stars of South Sudan 5-0, a scoreline that reflects the full distance between the two programmes at their current levels of development while also confirming that the Bullets arrive at Saturday's final as a team producing the kind of attacking football that the CAF Women's Champions League stage demands. The goals were distributed across the match rather than concentrated in a single spell, which is the mark of a team that maintains its intensity across 90 minutes rather than bursting into brief periods of dominance.
The Bullets squad carries a notable Ugandan fingerprint, which adds a specific texture to Saturday's final that goes beyond the straightforward Kenya versus Uganda reading. Margaret Kunihira, the Golden Boot and MVP winner in the Kenyan league this season with 16 goals and 10 assists, plays for Bullets alongside goalkeeper Daisy Nakaziro and defender Desire Katisi Natooro. Three Ugandan nationals will be on the opposite side of the pitch from Kawempe Muslim on Saturday, representing a Kenyan club in a final against their own national association's champions. The football at CECAFA level has always carried these cross-border career patterns. Saturday's final makes them impossible to overlook.
What Saturday Decides
The CAF Women's Champions League final tournament takes place later in the year. The CECAFA region's single qualifier spot goes to whoever wins in Kigali on Saturday at 2pm local time. For Kawempe, the ticket would be the first continental final tournament appearance in the club's history. For Kenya Police Bullets, it would be the redemption of the 2024 final loss to CBE, the moment that has been the reference point for everything the club has built since. Both clubs know what the other did to get here. Kawempe beat CBE twice in this tournament, once in the group stage and once in the semi-final. Bullets beat Simba Queens in the group stage and then eliminated Yei Joint Stars by five goals in the semi-final. The form is consistent. The preparation is complete. Saturday is the only result that matters now. Sport Blot will carry the full final report and the CECAFA ticket confirmation from Kigali.
