Nabukenya targets golden boot as Kawempe chase continental bronze
Nabukenya goes into the encounter with four goals, putting her in a strong position to claim the individual accolade.
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CAF Women’s Champions League
Third-place playoff
Saturday, 3:00pm
Kawempe v Lekie
Final
Sunday, 6:00pm
Kawempe Muslim Ladies FC forward Agnes Nabukenya will be aiming to extend her goal tally and strengthen her bid for the CAF Women’s Champions League Golden Boot when the Ugandan champions face Cameroonian side Lekie Football Girls in Saturday’s third-place playoff at the Suez Canal Stadium in Ismailia, Egypt.
Nabukenya goes into the encounter with four goals, putting her in a strong position to claim the individual accolade.
However, she faces stiff competition from Mamelodi Sundowns’ Donelly Ronelly, who has scored three goals, all of them against Kawempe in the South African side’s emphatic 4-1 semi-final victory over the Ugandans.
Nabukenya’s goals have come in two impressive performances. She scored twice in Kawempe’s historic 3-2 victory over defending champions AS FAR before adding another brace in their 3-0 win over USFAS Bamako, which secured their place in the semi-finals.
The forward has been one of the tournament’s best performers and could have had an even higher tally if she had been more clinical with the numerous chances she has created and received in the four matches played so far.
The Ugandan champions have already secured sh1.2b for reaching the semi-finals, the same amount awarded to each of the other three teams that reached that stage.
Their opponents, Lekie, who are also making their debut in the competition, narrowly lost 1-0 to Moroccan champions AS FAR in the other semi-final.
Both sides have made history by becoming the first women’s clubs from their respective countries to compete in the continental competition.
Kawempe, however, have an opportunity to make another piece of history.
Victory on Saturday would make them the first club from the CECAFA region to finish third in the competition, following Tanzania’s Simba Queens’ 1-0 defeat to Nigeria’s Bayelsa Queens in the third-place playoff in 2022.