Meru Football Challenge Second Edition Finale set for this Weekend at Kinoru Stadium
MERU, Kenya, Apr 4 – The second edition of the Betika Meru Football Challenge is set to culminate on Sunday at the Kinoru Stadium with a prize pool of KES 3.5 million up for grabs in the tournament which kicked off last month.
Meru Football Challenge is an annual tournament held in Meru County under the Betika na Community initiative with the purpose of identifying, promoting, and nurturing talent within the region.
The winners both men and women will take home KES 1 million while first and second runners-up, both men and women will each be awarded KES 500,000 and KES 250,000 respectively.
In addition semifinals are set to be played on Saturday before paving the way for the finals on Sunday 5th April 2025.
Mitunguu United and Kibirichia Starlets were the winners in the men’s and women’s categories respectively during the inaugural event in 2024 seeing off Black Panther and Skyler in the finals.
Betika Brand Manager Erick Mwiti said that second edition of the Meru Football Challenge has prizes for both men and women equally just like in other engagements adding that they believe in equal rewarding.
“Just like in the first edition, a total of 48 teams were involved this time around, where 32 teams featured in the men’s tournament while 16 competed in the women’s competition starting from the preliminaries stages all the way to the knockouts”, he remarked.
“We are happy to have Betika back in Meru for yet another football tournament. This tournament brings together teams from across Meru County, a testament that we are not short of football talent in Meru. We look forward to a very good footballing weekend.” said Meru FKF County Branch Vice Chairman Elias Murega.
The finals will be followed by a massive afterparty headlined by Alikiba alongside performances by Breeder LW, Maandy, Toxic Lyricali and Meru’s very own Nassizu Murume.
In February 2025 Kinoru Stadium hosted the finals of the Mountain Region Betika BingwaFest which was won by home teams AL Azizia FC and Gachanka Queens.
“We look forward to a weekend of good football and call upon fans from Meru to show up in large numbers to cheer their teams on Sunday during the finals.”
