{"id":45108,"date":"2025-05-03T20:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T20:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/?p=45108"},"modified":"2025-05-03T20:35:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T20:35:18","slug":"kisii-rfc-promoted-after-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/kisii-rfc-promoted-after-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Kisii RFC promoted after five years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Kenya Cup side Kisii RFC will be returning to KRU Championships, the second tier rugby 15s league following their win against Administration Police Warriors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In today\u2019s final play-off match at Kisii High School, Kisii were 13-06 winners over Police to return to the league after five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The promotion comes as redemption for Kisii RFC, who fell short at this stage in the 2023\/24 season following elimination by Zetech University, the side that eventually earned promotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kisii RFC now return to the second tier for the first time since the 2019\/20 season, a turbulent campaign marked by several walkovers that led to their relegation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The club had previously dropped from the Kenya Cup at the end of the 2017\/18 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Kenya Cup side Kisii RFC will be returning to KRU Championships, the second tier rugby 15s league following their win against Administration Police Warriors. In today\u2019s final play-off match at Kisii High School, Kisii were 13-06 winners over Police to return to the league after five years. The promotion comes as redemption for Kisii [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":5991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2353,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-rugby"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/John-Kubu-1.jpg?fit=1000%2C667&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p92Nno-bJy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}