Nine time Africa Cup For Club Championships (ACCC) Blazers will lead other Kenyan hockey clubs for the in the hunt for the title set for Blantyre in Malawi.
Blazers will lead compatriots Lakers in the women category while Western Jaguars is the only men team at the championships that kicks off on November 18th to 26th .
This comes after the tournament was held in Kenya Egyptian Sharkia was crowned champions in the men’s category while Ghana Revenue Authority was triumphant in the women’s winners.
Record national league champions Blazers are nine-time ACCC champions but their last title was in 2018 in Abuja Nigeria where they beat GRA.
It will be the first time the tournament is held in Malawi. Malawi was to host the championship in 2020 but the African Hockey Federation cancelled the tournament altogether because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Sharkia (Egypt), Kada Stars (Nigeria), Police Machine (Nigeria), Genetix, Scorpions, Parachute Battalion (Malawi) and Uganda’s Kampala are the men’s teams.
Genetix, Scorpions, Capital Bravers (Malawi), GRA (Ghana), Nigerian pair of Kada and Delta Queens and Egypt’s Sharkia are the women’s teams.