[1] This followed previous concern shown by the KPL Executive Committee over the way FKF had interfered with decisions made regarding Premier League teams over the last 2 years.

[4] On 4 December 2014, Hassan Wario, the Cabinet Secretary for Sports, Culture and the Arts, voiced his support for the retention of a 16-team Premier League, quoted saying: "The KPL is here to stay.

"[5] In response, the FKF criticised the Cabinet Secretary in a statement released the next day for showing "open biasness yet he is supposed to be neutral and play the role of an arbitrator whenever any dispute is brought to his office.

"[8] The same day, however, a meeting held by representatives from both sides led to the formation of a task force to deliberate on the composition of the league for the upcoming season and present a report to the FKF/KPL Joint Executive Committee on 21 January 2015.

[9] Still on the same day, a statement signed by Nyamweya and KPL chairman Ambrose Rachier revealed the formation of a six-man committee with three representatives from each side to hold talks with three FIFA delegates to come up with resolutions on the crisis.

[10] On 15 January 2015, Nyamweya announced that the 2015 Kenyan Premier League season was set to kick off on the second week of February, adding that the FKF was "working hard to ensure all matters are settled as soon as possible".

"[12] On 27 January 2015, the FKF ejected a consultant report sent in by FIFA delegate Robert Niemann, with its National Executive Committee (NEC) stating that he "ventured in areas and scope beyond his mandate", after FIFA had directed that the report be released to all concerned parties in the crisis, including the KPL.

[18][19] On 30 January, Wario ordered the FKF to release the previously ejected FIFA report to all concerned parties including the Ministry of Sports, Culture and the Arts "without any further delay".

[33] On 24 February, a court order acquired by the FKF forced the second round of the 2015 Kenyan Premier League to be put on hold.

Leopards captain Martin Imbalambala and striker Noah Wafula were suspended by their club for reportedly accepting bribes from self-proclaimed club chairman Matthew Opwora, who was previously reported to have paid out former team manager Willis Waliaula and bribed each player with KSh.17,000/= to take part in an FKF Premier League match against West Kenya Sugar.

[44][45] After a ruling was delayed by 2 hours in a 13 March hearing,[46] contempt of court charges against KPL management for kicking off the league on 21 February without authorisation from the FKF were thrown out, with Lady Justice Aburili stating that the order was not served within the court's working hours and also ruled that the FKF had "ill motives", having not attempted to serve the order during KPL matches and failing to enjoin Sports Kenya and the KEFORA (Kenya Football Referees Association) in their case against the KPL.

[47] The following Monday, on 16 March, the High Court of Kenya lifted the injunction imposed on the KPL on 24 February, allowing the league to resume with the second round.

[48][49] Lady Justice Aburili, who presided over the case, ruled that the FKF could not sue or be sued under its own name unless its officials began legal proceedings on its behalf, and advised that the name "Football Kenya Federation" be removed from the list of defendants and replaced with "Football Kenya Federation officials", and that a solution to the crisis be agreed on between the two parties out of court.

On 25 May 2015, in the midst of the FIFA corruption scandal, German broadcaster Deutsche Welle aired a documentary featuring French football executive Jérôme J. Dufourg that accused FKF president Sam Nyamweya of embezzling more than US$500,000 in development aid funds from FIFA, grants from the Confederation of African Football and other forms of funding from the Kenyan government.

"[57] Nyamweya was previously named in a report by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, released in late March and dubbed the "List of Shame" by Kenyan media, among 174 others being investigated for corruption in Kenya.

[58] Soon after the documentary was aired, the allegations made by Dufourg were widely reported on the Kenyan press, while the FKF's media rights holders MP & Silva reportedly suspended all payments to and cut ties with the federation over "repeated breaches of confidentiality" and their dissatisfaction with the quality of the FKF Premier League.

[59][60] FKF National Executive Committee member Tom Alila called for the resignation of Nyamweya and his deputy Robert Asembo in the wake of the scandal, saying the activities of the two "have compromised the image of Kenya football in the region, continent and the world.

Former National Executive Committee (NEC) member Hussein Terry accused the federation of planning to rig the elections to keep Nyamweya as the FKF president.

The issues included the delayed payment of match officials, as well as an apparent lack of clarity of the number of teams to be promoted to and relegated from the Kenyan Premier League at the end of the season according to the memorandum of understanding between the KPL and the Football Kenya Federation signed earlier in the year.

[66] The suspension of the league stemmed from the controversial awarding of three points and two goals to Shabana and Kakamega Homeboyz for their matches against West Kenya Sugar and St. Joseph respectively.

As a result of the rulings, which were given by the federation's National Leagues and Competitions Committee (NLCC), West Kenya Sugar and St. Joseph also had their points tallies and goal differences altered accordingly.

In the preliminary round, Gor Mahia faced Malagasy champions CNaPS Sport over two legs, played on 14 February and 1 March.

In the first round, Gor Mahia faced Republic of the Congo champions AC Léopards over two legs, played on 15 March and 5 April.

Joining the competition in the preliminary round of the Central-East Zone, Kenya faced Ethiopia over two legs, played on 21 June and 4 July.