{"id":210704,"date":"2025-10-21T20:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/rwanda-sudan-three-sudanese-clubs-request-to-play-in-rwanda-premier-league\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T20:12:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:12:02","slug":"rwanda-sudan-three-sudanese-clubs-request-to-play-in-rwanda-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/rwanda-sudan-three-sudanese-clubs-request-to-play-in-rwanda-premier-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda\/Sudan: Three Sudanese Clubs Request to Play in Rwanda Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Three clubs from Sudan&#8211; Al-Merrikh SC, Al Hilal SC and Al Ahli SC Wad Madani&#8211;have expressed interest in playing in the Rwanda Premier League, <em>Times Sport<\/em> can confirm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Both Rwanda FA and the league board (RPL) confirmed to <em>Times Sport<\/em> that the three clubs have formally requested to join the Rwandan league and will be ready as soon as their requests are accepted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">&#8220;Yes, we received their requests,&#8221; said Rwanda Premier League Operations Manager Augustin Bigirimana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" \/a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510210563.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three clubs from Sudan&#8211; Al-Merrikh SC, Al Hilal SC and Al Ahli SC Wad Madani&#8211;have expressed interest in playing in the Rwanda Premier League, Times Sport can confirm. Both Rwanda FA and the league board (RPL) confirmed to Times Sport that the three clubs have formally requested to join the Rwandan league and will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":210705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,9300,7027,257,7543,6996,8333,4702,12782,254,1613,7296],"class_list":["post-210704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-clubs","tag-league","tag-news","tag-play","tag-premier","tag-request","tag-rwanda","tag-rwandasudan","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudanese"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}