Defending champions Young Africans (Yanga) will begin the defence of their Cecafa Kagame Club Championship title against Uganda's Express FC after the two sides were drawn together in Group C.

The Tanzanian league champions will be based in South Darfur and will also face Express, Ports of Djibouti and Vital'O.

Elsewhere in the draw, which was made on Tuesday at the Corinthia Hotel in Khartoum, Merriekh El Fasher, APR, Elman and Simba SC were pooled together in Group A, which will also be based in Darfur.

The other group matches in the 18 June to 2 July tournament will be played in South Kordofan.

Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) has given coach Kim Poulsen a new contract ahead of their World Cup qualifier away to Morocco in June.

Poulsen who has climbed up through the ranks also named his 26-man travelling party while TFF spokesman Boniface Wambura confirmed to supersport.com of the development.

“He was initially the youth coach and we decided to try him on senior level when his predecessor’s contract expired and it wasn’t renewed.”

“We weren’t happy with the previous tactician’s results but it’s the opposite with him, we are delighted with what he has done when he has been in charge.”

Tanzania has pulled out of this year’s Cosafa Cup in Zambia.

Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) spokesman Boniface Wambura told supersport.com that they had opted out due to the Chan qualifiers and Kagame Cup competitions.

“We have decided to pull out of Cosafa because of the scheduled matches we have. It won’t work for us and it won’t be possible.”

“We have Kagame Cup till early July and still have to feature in Chan. The players we will use in the competition mostly come from Simba and Yanga and that will be difficult to juggle because their clubs will expect them to be in Sudan and avail themselves for Chan training.”

The Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) will hold its elections on 29 September after complying with world football governing body Fifa's written request for the process to be restarted.

Having been originally scheduled for October last year, the elections were postponed until February and delayed again after Fifa demanded the reinstatement of candidates who had been ruled out.

"Fifa directed us to form ethics and appeals committees, amend the statutes, start the election process afresh and allow all candidates to run," said TFF president Leodegar Tenga, who is not reseeking election.

The TFF will hold a meeting on 13 July in order to make any necessary amendments to its constitution.

SuperSport United have been dumped out of the CAF Confederation Cup after a 3-1 loss to Egyptian side ENPPI at the Lucas Moripe Stadium on Saturday.

South African sides have had a notoriously lackadaisical attitude to CAF competitions in the past, but SuperSport has talked up their determination to do well this year.

Maluleka had SuperSport in front on 10 minutes though with a fantastic strike from just outside the box that flew into the top corner.

But the tie turned on two goals in as many minutes for the visitors just before halftime and Ivorian forward Vincent die Foneye got Ismaily both.

Host Zambia face Mozambique in Cosafa Cup quarterfinals while Bafana Bafana must wait to know their Last 8 opponents from Group A.

Mozambique, Bafana Bafana, Malawi, Angola, hosts Zambia and defending champions Zimbabwe all enjoy byes from the group stage and will enter the competition at the quarterfinal stage.

Zambia will face Mozambique on July 14 in the fourth quarterfinal match in Kabwe following tournament draws made on May 3 in Lusaka.

Bafana will face winner from Group A on July 13 in Lusaka that contains Namibia, Mauritius, Seychelles and guest team from the Cecafa zone, Tanzania.

Bafana Bafana, Angola, champions Zimbabwe and hosts Zambia seeded and on first round byes in the May 3 COSAFA Cup draws.

And CECAFA zone nations Tanzania and Kenya have been invited to take part in this year’s COSAFA Cup to be held in Zambia from July 6-21.

According to Cosafa, Zambia, Bafana, Zimbabwe, Angola, Malawi and Mozambique will all enjoy group stage byes and join the competition in the quarterfinals on July 13 thanks to their FIFA rankings as of April 11, 2013.

Meanwhile, guest teams Tanzania and Kenya are the seeded teams in the group draws.

Eight teams will go into Fridays two group draws for preliminary round matches to be played at Nkoloma Stadium in Lusaka and Godfrey 'Ucar' Chitalu Stadium in Kabwe.

The Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations (Cecafa) has confirmed that the once-troubled Darfur region in western Sudan will host the 2013 Cecafa Club Championships next month.

The football body said that Democratic Republic of Congo side St. Eloi Lupopo will take part in the event.

Cecafa Secretary General Nicholas Musonye also told BBC Sport that "a team from Eritrea is yet to confirm".

Musonye said that Darfur is 90% ready to host the event, but for only two of the three groups.

"Two football stadiums in Al Fashir - Al Nuggaa [capacity 15,000] and Al Fashir [45,000] - were of impressive quality and so were hotel accommodations and transport," he said.

ASEC Mimosas only managed a 1-0 victory over Lydia LB Academic on Saturday in Abidjan, in the first leg of their CAF Confederation Cup’s second round tie. 

The score could have been much heavier in favour of the Ivoirians who had endless opportunities in that game, which appeared pretty much like a one way affair.

The locals had their first opportunity in the 8th minute with a Goua Mahan’s strike cleared by the Burundian keeper, Nyabenda  Athanase for the header of Mimos’ skipper Hugues Zagbayou who ended up off target.

Unfortunately for the visitors, an injured Nyabenda had to leave the field, making room for second choice keeper Epimaque.

There are five former African champions among the 16 hopefuls entering the final qualifying round this weekend for the CAF Confederation Cup.

And FAR Rabat and Wydad Casablanca of Morocco, ASEC Mimosas of Ivory Coast, Etoile Sahel of Tunisia and Ismaily of Egypt are favoured to win two-leg ties and reach play-offs against CAF Champions League last-16 losers.

CS Sfaxien of Tunisia have also experienced continental glory, being the only club to successfully defend the Confederation Cup, the second-tier African club competition loosely modelled on the Europa League.

Also in action will be US Bitam of Gabon, who scored a record 17 goals in a preliminary tie, and Liga Muculmana of Mozambique, whose 7-1 thrashing of Nigerian visitors Lobi Stars in Maputo was totally unexpected.