Mathare United
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| Full name | Mathare United | ||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1994 | ||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Moi International Sports Centre Nairobi, Kenya (Capacity 60,000) |
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| League | Kenyan Premier League | ||||||||||||||||
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Mathare United is an Kenyan football club based in Mathare slums of Nairobi. They are a member of the top division in Kenyan football. Their home stadium is Moi International Sports Centre. The club was formed in 1994 as a professional outfit of the Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA) (which was founded in 1987).
In 1996 the club won the Nairobi Provincial League and was promoted to the National Super League [1]. Mathare United won the Kenyan Cup in 1998, when still playing second level football. The club has been in the Kenya Premier League since 1999. It won Kenyan cup second time in 2000.
Extensive youth program by MYSA has produced many Kenyan top players, for example Dennis Oliech. Mathare United's chairman is Bob Munro.
Mathare United's farm team Mathare Youth promoted to the Kenya Premier league in 2005. It supposedly runs as a separate entity.
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[edit] Achievements
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- 1998, 2000
[edit] Performance in CAF competitions
- CAF Cup: 1 appearance
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- 2002 - First Round
- CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 2 appearances
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- 1999 - Second Round
- 2001 - First Round
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