2019 Men’s African Volleyball Club Championship – Holders GSU and Kenya Prisons to represent Kenya at Egypt; full details
|The Men’s African Volleyball Club Championship holders General Service Unit, GSU, from Kenya will be seeking to retain their title as this year’s action kicks off in Egypt tomorrow. A total of 23 teams will be competing at this year’s championship with draws slated for Sunday 31st March, 2019, and opening matches to go down on Monday 1st April, 2019.
GSU is joined by compatriots Kenya Prisons at this year’s championship that will be hosted by Egypt’s Al Ahly.
Kenya’s neighbours, Uganda, will also be represented by two participants; Uganda University and Nemo Stars. Nemo Stars come to Egypt as the champions of the Ugandan national league.
On their part, Libya will be fielding four teams. The teams from Libya being: Al Swehly, Ahli Tripoli, Al Ittihad El Masrati and Asaria.
Ahli Tripoli has won a bronze medal twice in 2009 and 2013 at past Men’s African Volleyball Club Championships while, Al Swehly finished 4th in the last three competitions as well as in 2008.
Hosts Egypt will be having 2 teams participating. 13-time winners Al Ahly host the competition for a second year in a row. They have finished at second position five times at previous competitions. The other Egyptian club, Smouha, won the bronze medal last year, in 2018, and also in 2016. They finished fourth in 2015.
Here is the full list of Confirmed participating teams in the 2019 Menโs African Volleyball Championship:
Al Ahly (Egypt) ๐ช๐ฌ
Smouha (Egypt) ๐ช๐ฌ
Al Swehly (Libya) ๐ฑ๐พ
Ahli Tripoli (Libya) ๐ฑ๐พ
Al Ittihad El Masrati (Libya) ๐ฑ๐พ
Asaria (Libya) ๐ฑ๐พ
Gendarmerie Nationale Volleyball (Madagascar) ๐ฒ๐ฌ
University of Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe) ๐ฟ๐ผ
Gisagra Volleyball Club – GVC (Rwanda) ๐ท๐ผ
Police (Botswana) ๐ง๐ผ
Cement (Ethiopia) ๐ช๐น
Valaita Decha(Ethiopia) ๐ช๐น
AS Fag (Guinea) ๐ฌ๐ณ
Uganda University (Uganda) ๐บ๐ฌ
Nemo Star (Uganda) ๐บ๐ฌ
Rokinzo (Burundi) ๐ง๐ฎ
Inter Club (Congo) ๐จ๐ฌ
General Service Unit – GSU (Kenya) ๐ฐ๐ช
Kenya Prisons (Kenya) ๐ฐ๐ช
AS Injs (Cote d’Ivoire) ๐จ๐ฎ
Forced Armees Police (Cameroon) ๐จ๐ฒ
Mwangaza (Congo DR) ๐จ๐ฉ
Espoir (Congo DR) ๐จ๐ฉ
Meanwhile, referees who will be officiating the matches have completed their training. The referees have been training since Wednesday 27th March, 2019 and finished the training on Saturday 30th March, 2019. Confederation of African Volleyball, CAVB, President Dr Amr Elwani opened the African Refereeing Commission meeting in Cairo, Egypt, on Wednesday.
Elsewhere, Egyptโs Ahly captured their tenth historic Womenโs African Club Championship title after they outclassed their arch-rivals Carthage of Tunisia 3-1 (21-25, 25-15, 25-11, 25-19) in the final of the competition at Ahly Hall in Cairo, Egypt on Monday 25th March, 2019.
The bronze medal went to Kenya Pipeline following their victory over Algeriaโs GSP 3-0 (25-22, 25-17, 25-18) in the third place match.
2019 Womenโs African Club Championship – Final Ranking of teams:
- Ahly (Egypt)
- Carthage (Tunisia)
- Pipeline (Kenya)
- GSP (Algeria)
- Shams (Egypt)
- Customs (Nigeria)
- FAP (Cameroon)
- Sporting (Egypt)
- KCB (Kenya)
- Revenue (Rwanda)
- Canon (RD Congo)
- USFA (Burkina)
- Shooting (Egypt)
- DGSP (Congo)
- ASEC (CIV)
- Nkumba University (Uganda)
- Prisons (Kenya) โWithdrawn