The tournament will bring together Rwanda National Team “AMAVUBI”, Namibia and Congo Brazzaville, in the games that will be hosted in Rwanda from January 7, 2021, until January, and the all teams have confirmed their presence.  

Amavubi is part of group C where they will be against Uganda, Togo while Namibia is in group D with Zambia, Tanzania, and Guinea and Congo Brazzaville is in group B with D.R Congo, Libya, and Niger. 

Vicent Mashami, the head coach of Amavubi has summoned a 30 men provisional squad that started training at Amahoro national stadium ahead of their flight to Morocco for 2020 CHAN. 

According to the regulations, the Covid-19 test is mandatory before heading to camp as a result, however, the fitness of players has been questionable as the Rwanda premier league preparations were canceled at its beginning due to reasons of containing the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Vincent Mashami the head coach of Rwanda National at the right.

Contestants of the preparatory tournament will play against each other who are grouped in three small teams who are required to have more exercises to see the level of their player before heading to CHAN 2020 which will help them visualize their goal of reaching the quarter-finals. “My top priority is to help Amavubi reach the quarterfinal. I have told the players that we have to impress the fans but also to qualify for the next stages of the tournament,” Mashami said.

This CHAN will be the 6^th edition and AMAVUBI managed to be a candidate for three times consecutive times.

Coach Mashami will face his former senior Johnny McKinstry (now the head coach of Uganda Cranes) whom they worked together in CHAN 2016 coaching Amavubi where Mashami was his assistant.