2012 Kenyan Premier League

The 2012 Kenyan Premier League (known as the Tusker Premier League for sponsorship reasons) was the ninth season of the Kenyan Premier League since its establishment in 2003 and the forty-ninth season of top division football in Kenya since 1963. It began on 11 February with Tusker and Nairobi City Stars and ended on 10 November with Oserian and Rangers. The winners of the league will earn a place at the preliminary round of the 2013 CAF Champions League and play against the 2012 FKF President's Cup champions at the 2013 Kenyan Super Cup.

Kenyan Premier League

Season	2012
Champions	Tusker 5th Premier League title 10th Kenyan title overall
Relegated	Rangers Oserian
Champions League	Tusker
Confederation Cup	Gor Mahia (cup winner)
Top 8 Cup	Tusker Gor Mahia A.F.C. Leopards Sofapaka Thika United Ulinzi Stars Chemelil Sugar Mathare United
Matches played	240
Goals scored	458 (1.91 per match)
Top goalscorer	John Baraza (Sofapaka) (18 goals)
Biggest home win	KCB 4–0 Nairobi City Stars (2 March 2012)[1] A.F.C. Leopards 6-2 Rangers (8 April 2012)[2]
Biggest away win	Rangers 0–6 Thika United (25 March 2012)[3]
Highest scoring	A.F.C. Leopards 6-2 Rangers (8 April 2012)[2]
Highest attendance	20,409[4] (Gor Mahia versus AFC Leopards)
← 2011 2013 →

The defending champions Tusker, who also became the defending champions of the Kenyan Super Cup after beating Gor Mahia, the defending champions of the FKF Cup, earlier in the year, won their tenth league title after beating Nairobi City Stars 3−0 away at the Hope Centre. Gor Mahia, the former league leaders with 58 points (Tusker were second with 57), needed a win against Thika United to clinch a record thirteenth title, but the match ended in a 1−1 draw. A.F.C. Leopards, who were third with 57 points (Tusker were ahead on goal difference), also needed a win for a chance at a record thirteenth title as well, but lost 1−0 away to Chemelil Sugar.

A total of 16 teams are competed for the league, with fourteen returning from the 2011 season and one promoted from the FKL Nationwide League and the KFF Nationwide League, which were joint to make FKF Division One after the 2011 season. FKL champions Oserian and KFF champions Muhoroni Youth were promoted, while Congo JMJ United and Bandari, finishing last and second-last respectively, were relegated. Oserian were relegated at the end of the season, along with Rangers.

The league was halted at the end of 20 May to give teams a chance to rest and make possible changes in their squads during the mid-year transfer window. Matches resumed on 23 June.

On 21 August, the Kenyan Premier League and East African Breweries signed a KSh.170 million/= (US$2.02 million; £1.28 million sterling; €1.62 million) deal to rename the league to the Tusker Premier League, making it the most lucrative deal in Kenyan football history.^[5]

Changes from last season

Chemelil

Karuturi

Muhoroni

Oserian

Sony

Thika

Ulinzi

Stima

Locations of the 2012 Kenyan Premier League teams.

Leopards

Gor Mahia

KCB

Mathare

City Stars

Rangers

Sofapaka

Tusker

Locations of the 2012 Kenyan Premier League teams within Nairobi.

Relegated from Premier League

• Bandari
• Congo JMJ United

Promoted from FKL and KFF

• Oserian
• Muhoroni Youth

Teams

Several teams share common stadiums in the league, the most shared being the Nyayo National Stadium, by A.F.C. Leopards, Muhoroni Youth, Rangers and Sofapaka.

Half of all the 16 teams are based in Nairobi.

Stadia and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
A.F.C. Leopards	Nairobi	Nyayo National Stadium	30,000
Chemelil Sugar	Chemelil	Chemelil Sports Complex	5,000
Gor Mahia	Nairobi	Nairobi City Stadium	15,000
Karuturi Sports	Naivasha	Naivasha Stadium	5,000
KCB	Nairobi	Nairobi City Stadium	15,000
Mathare United	Nairobi	Kasarani Stadium	60,000
Muhoroni Youth	Muhoroni	Muhoroni Stadium	5,000
Nairobi City Stars	Nairobi	Hope Centre	5,000
Oserian	Naivasha	Naivasha Stadium	5,000
Rangers	Nairobi	Nyayo National Stadium	30,000
Sofapaka	Nairobi	Nyayo National Stadium	30,000
Sony Sugar	Awendo	Green Stadium	5,000
Thika United	Thika	Thika Municipal Stadium	5,000
Tusker	Nairobi	Kasarani Stadium	60,000
Ulinzi Stars	Nakuru	Afraha Stadium	8,200
Western Stima	Kakamega	Bukhungu Stadium	5,000

Personnel and kits

As of September 24, 2012.

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer
A.F.C. Leopards	Jan Koops	Martin Imbalambala	Legea
Chemelil Sugar	Edward Manoah	Charles Odero	Adidas
Gor Mahia	Zdravko Logarusić	Jerim Onyango	Legea
Karuturi Sports	Michael Nam	Amon Muchiri	Adidas
Kenya Commercial Bank	James Omondi	Joseph Kangata	Adidas
Mathare United	Stanley Okumbi	Anthony Kimani	Puma
Muhoroni Youth	Alfred Imonje	Nicholas Owende	Prima
Nairobi City Stars	Gideon Ochieng	John Amboko	Adidas
Oserian	Sammy Omollo	John Keo	Adidas
Rangers	James Nandwa	Victor Omondi	Adidas
Sofapaka	Stewart Hall	James Situma	Adidas
Sony Sugar	Zedekiah Otieno	Wilson Oburu	Joma
Thika United	John Kamau	Kepha Aswani	Legea
Tusker	Robert Matano	Joseph Shikokoti	Legea
Ulinzi Stars	Sammy Simiyu	Geoffrey Kokoyo	Adidas
Western Stima	Henry Omino	George Wesa	Adidas

Managerial changes

As of September 24, 2012.

Team	Outgoing	Reason	Date of vacancy	Incoming	Date of appointment	Table position
Gor Mahia	Zedekiah Otieno	End of contract	December 2011[6]	Anaba Awono	17 December 2011	End of 2011 season
	Anaba Awono	Sacked	5 March 2012[7]	John Bobby Ogolla	7 March 2012	N/A
	John Bobby Ogolla	Demoted	March 2012[8]	Zdravko Logarusić	March 2012
Mathare United	Gabriel Njoroge	Resigned	March 2012[9]	Stanley Okumbi	March 2012[9]
Muhoroni Youth	Alfred Imonje	Suspended	April 2012[10] (then resigned)[11]	Reinstated	May 2012[12][13]	12th
Nairobi City Stars	Gideon Ochieng	Resigned	December 2011[14]	Reinstated	December 2011[15]	End of 2011 season
Oserian	Sammy Otinga	Resigned	June 2012[16]	Gilbert Selebwa	June 2012[17]	16th
	Gilbert Selebwa	Back to TD	18 August 2012[18][19][20]	Sammy Omollo	20 August 2012[21][22][23]
Rangers	David Ouma	Sacked	December 2011[24]	Ezekiel Akwana	January 2012	End of 2011 season
	Ezekiel Akwana	Resigned	April 2012[25][26]	Jaffer Gichuki	April 2012	N/A
	Jaffer Gichuki	Resigned	June 2012[27]	James Nandwa	22 June 2012[28][29]	15th
Sofapaka	Salim Ali	Sacked	21 August 2012[30][31][32]	Stewart Hall	12 September 2012[33]	3rd
Sony Sugar	Francis Baraza	Sacked	January 2012[34]	Zedekiah Otieno	January 2012	End of 2011 season
Tusker	Sammy Omollo	Sacked	15 August 2012[35][36][37]	Robert Matano	24 August 2012[38]	2nd
Ulinzi Stars	Benjamin Nyangweso	Sacked	March 2012[39]	Sammy Simiyu	1 April 2012[40][41]	N/A

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Tusker (C, Q)	30	17	9	4	39	14	+25	60	Qualification for 2013 CAF Champions League
2	Gor Mahia (Q)	30	17	8	5	37	18	+19	59	Qualification for 2013 CAF Confederation Cup[a]
3	A.F.C. Leopards	30	17	6	7	45	27	+18	57
4	Sofapaka	30	13	9	8	34	24	+10	48
5	Thika United	30	12	10	8	36	33	+3	46
6	Ulinzi Stars	30	13	6	11	35	29	+6	45
7	Chemelil Sugar	30	9	14	7	18	17	+1	41
8	Mathare United	30	10	11	9	36	36	0	41
9	Western Stima	30	11	7	12	27	25	+2	40
10	Kenya Commercial Bank	30	11	6	13	35	31	+4	39
11	Sony Sugar	30	11	5	14	26	26	0	38
12	Karuturi Sports	30	7	11	12	18	26	−8	32
13	Nairobi City Stars	30	6	11	13	16	32	−16	29
14	Muhoroni Youth	30	7	6	17	19	34	−15	27
15	Oserian (R)	30	5	9	16	15	33	−18	24	Relegation to 2013 FKF Division One
16	Rangers (R)	30	4	12	14	22	53	−31	24

Updated to match(es) played on 10 November 2012. Source: Kenyan Premier League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Gor Mahia qualified for the 2013 CAF Confederation Cup as winners of the 2012 FKF President's Cup.

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Tusker	4	9	11	6	3	3	4	4	4	4	2	3	3	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	3	2	2	3	1	1	1	2	2	1
Gor Mahia	2	6	10	12	14	13	12	12	14	11	12	11	10	9	9	6	6	6	6	4	5	6	5	2	2	2	2	1	1	2
A.F.C. Leopards	5	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	3	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	3	3	3	3	3
Sofapaka	11	3	3	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	4	2	2	1	1	2	3	4	5	3	2	3	3	5	6	6	4	4	4	4
Thika United	16	15	12	13	12	11	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	5	5	5	3	6	6	5	4	4	5	5	6	6	6	5
Ulinzi Stars	14	8	7	11	7	9	10	11	9	9	9	7	9	7	7	4	4	3	4	5	4	4	6	6	4	4	5	5	5	6
Chemelil Sugar	6	11	1	4	8	4	3	3	3	3	3	4	6	8	8	7	7	8	9	9	10	10	11	8	8	10	8	9	8	7
Mathare United	15	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	12	12	13	13	14	14	14	13	14	13	13	12	11	8	9	11	11	11	9	7	9	8
Western Stima	12	5	6	7	5	8	9	6	8	6	7	6	5	5	5	8	8	9	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	8	10	9
Kenya Commercial Bank	3	7	4	3	4	6	6	8	7	10	10	9	7	10	10	12	12	10	10	10	12	12	10	12	10	9	11	11	11	10
SoNy Sugar	1	1	5	5	9	10	11	10	11	13	11	12	12	13	13	11	11	12	11	11	9	11	8	10	9	8	10	10	7	11
Vegpro	7	13	14	8	6	7	8	9	6	8	6	8	8	6	6	9	9	7	8	8	8	9	12	9	12	12	12	12	12	12
Nairobi City Stars	13	14	15	14	15	15	16	14	16	16	15	16	13	12	12	10	10	11	12	13	13	13	13	13	14	14	13	13	13	13
Muhoroni Youth	8	4	8	10	13	5	7	7	10	7	8	10	11	11	11	14	13	14	14	14	15	14	14	14	13	13	14	14	14	14
Oserian	9	12	9	9	11	14	14	16	13	14	14	15	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	16	16	15
Rangers	10	10	13	15	10	12	13	13	15	15	16	14	15	15	15	15	16	16	16	15	14	15	15	16	16	16	16	15	15	16

	Leader
	Relegation to the 2013 FKF Division One

Updated to match(es) played on 10 November 2012. Source: Futaa.com
Notes: Top 8 qualified to the 2013 KPL Top 8 Cup

Results

Home \ Away	AFC	CHM	GOR	VGP	KCB	MAU	MHY	NCS	OSE	RAN	SOF	SNY	THU	TUS	ULS	WST
A.F.C. Leopards		0–0	1–2	1–0	0–2	4–2	2–1	1–0	2–0	6–2	1–0	1–1	5–0	0–2	2–1	2–1
Chemelil Sugar	1–0		0–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–1
Gor Mahia	0–0	1–0		1–0	3–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–0
Vegpro	1–1	2–0	1–0		1–1	1–3	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–2	0–0	1–0
Kenya Commercial Bank	1–2	0–0	2–3	1–2		0–1	3–0	4–0	3–0	3–1	2–1	0–1	2–3	0–2	2–1	0–2
Mathare United	0–2	2–2	2–2	1–1	0–1		2–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	3–1	1–2	1–0	2–2	0–0
Muhoroni Youth	1–2	0–1	0–4	2–1	1–2	1–1		3–0	1–0	0–0	0–2	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–2	0–0
Nairobi City Stars	3–0	0–0	0–4	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–2		1–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	3–2	0–3	0–0	0–0
Oserian	1–3	0–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–0		3–0	0–0	1–2	0–1	0–0	0–2	0–0
Rangers	0–0	0–0	1–2	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–2		0–2	1–0	0–6	2–4	0–3	2–1
Sofapaka	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–1	2–0	2–2	2–0	0–0	2–1		2–2	0–1	0–0	3–2	1–2
SoNy Sugar	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	3–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	3–1	0–1		3–0	0–1	1–0	2–0
Thika United	1–2	0–0	0–2	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–1	1–1	4–0	1–4	1–0		0–0	2–2	0–0
Tusker	0–0	2–0	2–0	2–2	0–0	2–2	1–0	2–1	3–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	2–1		0–0	2–0
Ulinzi Stars	0–2	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–2	0–1	2–0	2–1	2–0	3–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	0–2		1–0
Western Stima	2–1	2–1	1–2	3–0	0–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	3–0	2–3	1–2	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–0

Updated to match(es) played on 10 November 2012. Source: Kenyan Premier League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[42]
1	John Baraza	Sofapaka	18
2	Dan Sserunkuma	Gor Mahia	17
3	Rama Salim	Gor Mahia	12
	Kepha Aswani	Thika United
	Evans Amuoka	Ulinzi Stars
6	Paul Kiongera	Kenya Commercial Bank	11
7	Jesse Were	Mathare United	10
8	Mike Baraza	A.F.C. Leopards	9
9	Francis Ouma	Mathare United	8
	Andrew Tololwa
	Ismail Salim	Sony Sugar
	Erasto Ndege	Tusker

Last updated: 10 November 2012

See also

• 2012 Kenyan Women's Premier League
• 2012 FKF President's Cup
• 2012 KPL Top 8 Cup
• 2012 Kenyan Super Cup

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