CAF Disciplinary Board v. Football Kenya Federation (FKF)

The CAF Disciplinary Board addressed three separate sets of charges against the Football Kenya Federation (FKF) over the course of the TotalEnergies CAF African Nations Championship (CHAN) PAMOJA 2024, hosted jointly by Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda — making Kenya the subject of CAF disciplinary action three times within the same tournament.

The first ruling, announced 6 August 2025, arose from Kenya's 1-0 win over DR Congo at Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani, on 3 August: a stampede at Gate 11, fans forcing access to restricted areas, and a motorcycle weaving through the crowd. The Board found FKF guilty on several distinct counts: a fine of USD 5,000 for the stampede and unauthorised stadium access; a further USD 10,000 for an assault on CAF personnel and guests; and a formal warning over the ignition of fire inside the stadium, together totalling roughly USD 20,000 across that single ruling.

In a separate case from the same disciplinary sitting, FKF was fined a further USD 5,000, with USD 2,500 suspended conditional on no similar offence for the rest of the tournament — this one arising not from a Kenyan fixture but from FKF's own hosting-security obligations during an unrelated Morocco v Angola match played on Kenyan soil.

The largest sanction came after Kenya's own 1-0 win over two-time champions Morocco at Kasarani on 10 August: a charged crowd overwhelmed security to force entry, and CAF's investigation found a lack of personnel inside the stadium and a failure to enforce road closures on match days. The Board fined FKF USD 50,000 — by far its heaviest penalty of the tournament — and warned that continued security failures could see Kenya's national team matches relocated to another venue entirely. In the same ruling, Morocco's own federation (FRMF) was separately fined USD 5,000, with USD 2,500 suspended, over the conduct of its players during that same match — a coincidentally identical figure to FKF's earlier hosting-related fine, but a genuinely distinct sanction on a different federation for different conduct.

Taken as a set, these FKF rulings illustrate how a single host federation's disciplinary record across one tournament can accumulate multiple, separately-reasoned charges of escalating severity — from a contained fire warning, through a modest hosting-liability fine for a match it wasn't even playing in, to a USD 50,000 penalty and an explicit relocation threat once the pattern repeated against the tournament's most prominent opponent.