This will be the third UEMOA Tournament contest.
It is a competition for domestic-league football players from the eight UEMOA member countries: Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Niger, Togo, Benin, Senegal and Guinea-Bissau.
The Togolese Football Federation announced their intention to host the tournament at Lomé[1] but the tournament was hosted in Benin.
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