{"id":237715,"date":"2026-06-29T04:52:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ready-for-kickoff-western-region-to-host-opening-leg-of-chapa-dimba-season-five\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T04:52:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:52:04","slug":"kenya-ready-for-kickoff-western-region-to-host-opening-leg-of-chapa-dimba-season-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ready-for-kickoff-western-region-to-host-opening-leg-of-chapa-dimba-season-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ready for Kickoff! Western Region to Host Opening Leg of Chapa Dimba Season Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">NAIROBI \u2014 The fifth edition of Safaricom Chapa Dimba gets underway on Saturday, June 27, with grassroots matches across the Western region, marking the start of another exciting season of Kenya&#8217;s premier youth football tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The opening round has attracted 521 teams, comprising 340 boys&#8217; teams and 181 girls&#8217; teams from Kakamega, Busia, Vihiga and Bungoma counties, representing a significant increase from the previous season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Nationwide, the tournament has recorded an overwhelming response,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606260489.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI \u2014 The fifth edition of Safaricom Chapa Dimba gets underway on Saturday, June 27, with grassroots matches across the Western region, marking the start of another exciting season of Kenya&#8217;s premier youth football tournament. The opening round has attracted 521 teams, comprising 340 boys&#8217; teams and 181 girls&#8217; teams from Kakamega, Busia, Vihiga and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":237716,"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":[250],"tags":[258,256,17003,17004,6937,4688,430,14764,7491,257,11416,8479,6324,8098,254,12623],"class_list":["post-237715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chapa","tag-dimba","tag-host","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kickoff","tag-leg","tag-news","tag-opening","tag-ready","tag-region","tag-season","tag-south-africa-today","tag-western"],"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\/237715","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}