{"id":40361,"date":"2025-08-20T14:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T11:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=40361"},"modified":"2025-08-20T14:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T11:48:13","slug":"uganda-to-battle-it-out-with-chan-champs-senegal-in-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/uganda-to-battle-it-out-with-chan-champs-senegal-in-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda to Battle it Out With CHAN Champs Senegal in Quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

 Uganda will face reigning champions Senegal at Mandela National Stadium, Kampala on Saturday, 23rd August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was confirmed after Sudan holding Senegal to 0-0 draw on 19 Aug to maintain top spot in Group D and Senegal finishing second on goal difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uganda will be playing quarter finals for the first time in seven CHAN appearances after a thrilling 3-3 draw with South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uganda began campaign with a 3-0 loss to 2023 finalists Algeria, bounced back with a 3-0 win over Guinea, 2-0 victory against Niger before holding South Africa while Senegal started with a 1-0 win against Nigeria and 1-1 draw to Congo, and 0-0 draw to Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other teams that have passed through to the quarterfinals include Kenya, Madagascar, Morocco, Algeria, Tanzania, and Sudan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chan Quarterfinal matches<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

22 August<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kenya vs Madagascar, 17:00
Tanzania vs Morocco, 20:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

23 August<\/strong>
Uganda vs Senegal, 17:00
Sudan vs Algeria, 20:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 Uganda will face reigning champions Senegal at Mandela National Stadium, Kampala on Saturday, 23rd August. This was confirmed after Sudan holding Senegal to 0-0 draw on 19 Aug to maintain top spot in Group D and Senegal finishing second on goal difference. Uganda will be playing quarter finals for the first time in seven CHAN appearances […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8864,"featured_media":40362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[9084,31,7242,144,154],"class_list":["post-40361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-chan","tag-featured","tag-senegal","tag-uganda","tag-uganda-cranes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8864"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40363,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40361\/revisions\/40363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}