Kenya will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers at the Nyayo National Stadium, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has confirmed. Kenya is in Group E of the qualifiers alongside Uganda, Mali and Rwanda.
Senegal,Burkina Faso, Malawi, Mali, CAR, Burundi, Eritrea, Chad, Gambia, Lesotho, Sierra Leone,Somalia and Namibia will however host their World Cup Qualifiers games outside their country after CAF rule that none of their stadiums is fit to host international matches.
Nyayo Stadium was closed for renovations in 2017 and was declared fit for use on September 25, 2020 when President Uhuru Kenyatta officially opened up the facility.
South Sudan have been using the facility for their international fixtures with Harambee Stars staging three friendly matches at the same venue. On October 9, 2020 Harambee Stars beat Chipolopolo of Zambia 2-1 at the venue and beat South Sudan and Tanzania at the same venue in March 2021.
Stars will play host to Uganda Cranes on June 5 or 6, before traveling to face Rwanda's Amavubi in Kigali a week later.
A double-header fixture against Mali, the other team in Kenya's group is set for Bamako and Nairobi respectively between September 3 and 8, before the rematch against Uganda in Kampala and Rwanda in Nairobi in October.
The Kasarani stadium had been earlier approved meaning that Stars will have two stadiums to use during the campaign.