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This is set to be a big blow to the title-chasing clubs, who would have wanted a better way to finish the season.
After fighting hard to complete the 2022-2023 season, Football Kenya Federation Premier League (FKFPL) winner will walk home empty handed, Nick Mwendwa has revealed.
The current season is close to coming to a conclusion but the teams will have almost nothing to celebrate with Mwendwa confirming that there is no prize money.
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"There’s no money, and we won’t reward the league champions this season," Mwendwa told the Standard.
"We will not have any prize giving, where is the money going to come from? This was just a rescue season. We might want to try and even have a gala, but we don’t have the statistics and a committee in place that should have been following players’ performance."
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The only reward for the league winner, however, is a CAF Champions League ticket.
However, the FKF supremo is hopeful that the next season will be different from the current one.
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The football administrator feels his side deserves to be respected by the local heavyweights.
"But we are packaging something big for the new campaign, and these clubs will smile throughout the season. I can’t give the details right now," he added.
"Our season will officially run between August and May with broadcasting and sponsorship deals as well as club licensing. I’m not worried, and I actually think this was a blessing in disguise because we all know now what we need to do."
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Mwendwa returned to office after he was previously ejected, and he has blamed the current financial status of the league on what transpired in his absence.
"We found ourselves in this situation because when there is no leadership and everything is in shambles, nobody wants to be part of it," he continued.
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"There was nobody to speak to the sponsors when we were forcefully removed from the office. We had a seven-year broadcasting deal with StarTimes worth 1.4 million dollars a year. We used to give clubs between Ksh300,000-Ksh400,000 per month.
"Do you know how such an amount of money comes in handy for these clubs? But that was cut off the day I was arrested. Two days later, StarTimes walked away."
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