The court rollout
72 Courts In The Ground Before AFCON
Five-a-side courts are the only facility class that can be delivered at volume before AFCON. This is how many each county gets before the tournament, how many follow it, and what each one costs where it is being built.
Until kick-off
280
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20
hours
00
minutes
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Kick-off 19 June 2027 · 9 months to build
Courts before kick-off
72
51.1% of all 141
Cost of that wave
$1.73m
KSh 225m
Counties covered
24 of 47
At least one court each in the corridor
Players a year
172,800
1,728 teams, 216 jobs
What sets the number
6 delivery teams at 2 courts a month, with a 10-week build cycle held back for the last handover. That is 12 courts a month across 6 usable months — 72 courts — so delivery capacity, not money, is what caps the pre-AFCON wave.
officialas at 11 Sept 2026KSh 130 to US$1 · exchangerate-api.com (open access endpoint)County By County
| County | Courts before AFCON | After | Cost per court | Cost of the wave | Players a year | Teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nairobicorridor | 3 | 0 | $54,862index x2.31 | $164,586 | 7,200 | 72 |
| Kiambucorridor | 3 | 0 | $42,370index x1.784 | $127,110 | 7,200 | 72 |
| Nakurucorridor | 3 | 0 | $22,871index x0.963 | $68,613 | 7,200 | 72 |
| Kakamegacorridor | 3 | 0 | $25,436index x1.071 | $76,308 | 7,200 | 72 |
| Bungomacorridor | 3 | 0 | $23,180index x0.976 | $69,540 | 7,200 | 72 |
| Merucorridor | 3 | 0 | $19,071index x0.803 | $57,213 | 7,200 | 72 |
| Kilificorridor | 3 | 0 | $18,454index x0.777 | $55,362 | 7,200 | 72 |
| Machakoscorridor | 3 | 0 | $21,518index x0.906 | $64,554 | 7,200 | 72 |
| Mombasacorridor | 3 | 0 | $45,172index x1.902 | $135,516 | 7,200 | 72 |
| Uasin Gishucorridor | 3 | 0 | $23,180index x0.976 | $69,540 | 7,200 | 72 |
| Narokcorridor | 3 | 0 | $17,504index x0.737 | $52,512 | 7,200 | 72 |
| Kisumucorridor | 3 | 0 | $31,398index x1.322 | $94,194 | 7,200 | 72 |
| Kituicorridor | 3 | 0 | $14,606index x0.615 | $43,818 | 7,200 | 72 |
| Kajiadocorridor | 3 | 0 | $20,235index x0.852 | $60,705 | 7,200 | 72 |
| Migoricorridor | 3 | 0 | $20,069index x0.845 | $60,207 | 7,200 | 72 |
| Murang'acorridor | 3 | 0 | $21,328index x0.898 | $63,984 | 7,200 | 72 |
| Busiacorridor | 3 | 0 | $22,515index x0.948 | $67,545 | 7,200 | 72 |
| Taita Tavetacorridor | 3 | 0 | $15,485index x0.652 | $46,455 | 7,200 | 72 |
| Kisii | 3 | 0 | $32,348index x1.362 | $97,044 | 7,200 | 72 |
| Homa Bay | 3 | 0 | $18,359index x0.773 | $55,077 | 7,200 | 72 |
| Siaya | 3 | 0 | $18,905index x0.796 | $56,715 | 7,200 | 72 |
| Trans Nzoia | 3 | 0 | $20,021index x0.843 | $60,063 | 7,200 | 72 |
| Makueni | 3 | 0 | $14,606index x0.615 | $43,818 | 7,200 | 72 |
| Turkana | 3 | 0 | $14,606index x0.615 | $43,818 | 7,200 | 72 |
| All counties | 72 | 69 | $23,750 national | $1.73m | 172,800 | 1,728 |
TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations PAMOJA 2027
AFCON is in June 2027. The build runs before it, through it and after it.
Kick-off 19 June 2027 · Final 17 July 2027 · Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
Kenya co-hosts the continent's tournament in June 2027. That is the fixed point every phase below is timed against. Nothing here depends on the tournament being won; it depends on the facilities still being in use in 2030.
Until kick-off
280
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20
hours
00
minutes
36
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Finished by kick-off
- The first wave of five-a-side courts in the ground and trading, county by county.
- County leagues playing on them, with fixtures, referees and a published table.
- Coaches and referees through their first FKF and CAF courses.
- Clubs incorporated, affiliated and inside the licensing process.
- One Harambee Stars county camp base commissioned and in use.
- Every figure in this plan re-checked against its published source.
Before
Now to June 2027
Courts and pitches in the ground and in use, county leagues running, coaches and referees qualified, clubs incorporated and licensed.
Small-sided courts are the only facility class that can be delivered at volume in this window. Grass and hybrid eleven-a-side work starts now but lands later.
During
June and July 2027
Every county venue used as a fan park, a training base or a community programme site while the continent is watching.
Attention is the cheapest marketing the game will ever get. Courts already trading can convert it into memberships, leagues and sponsorship on the spot.
After
August 2027 onward
The facilities keep trading, the leagues keep running, and the academies keep producing.
The test is not the tournament. It is whether a child in a county town still has somewhere to play in 2030 and a pathway that leads somewhere.
How this was worked out
The national court line is 141 stackable five-a-side and futsal courts at an indicative $23,750 each (range $17,500–$34,000), allocated to counties by the same equal-floor-then-population rule as the rest of the programme. This module answers a narrower question: of a county's courts, how many can realistically be in the ground and in use before the AFCON PAMOJA 2027 kick-off on 19 June 2027, and what that costs at that county's own cost of living. Delivery capacity, not money, is the binding constraint. A stackable court is a ten-week job once the slab is down, and a single contracted delivery team can hand over about two a month. The plan assumes six teams working in parallel, so roughly twelve courts a month nationally. Whatever that capacity buys between now and kick-off is the pre-AFCON wave; the rest follows after. Capacity is offered to counties in priority-corridor order, then by population, and no county in the corridor is left with nothing before the tournament. Costs are the national unit cost multiplied by that county's cost-of-living index, so a court in Nairobi is priced higher than the same court in Homa Bay. Everything here is a labelled estimate published for challenge. Shilling figures are built at the base rate and restated at the live rate by `feeds.live()` at the API boundary — never apply the live rate inside a module or it is applied twice.