{"id":142659,"date":"2026-05-30T16:02:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/junior-starlets-held-by-ugandaadvance-to-the-third-round-of-u17-fifa-womens-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T16:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:02:54","slug":"junior-starlets-held-by-ugandaadvance-to-the-third-round-of-u17-fifa-womens-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/junior-starlets-held-by-ugandaadvance-to-the-third-round-of-u17-fifa-womens-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior Starlets held by Uganda,advance to the third round of U17 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The national U17 Women\u2019s soccer team Junior Starlets have qualified for the third and final round of the 2026 FIFA U17 Women\u2019s World Cup qualifier despite being held to a 0-0 draw by Uganda during their second round,second round duel played at Nyayo National Stadium.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RUN VCR AT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kenya advanced to the third round on away goal rule having held Uganda to a 1-1 draw in the first leg played last week in Kampala.Following the win Kenya will now face either South Africa or Tanzania\u00a0 in the THIRD ROUND.<\/p>\n\n<p>Tanzania will attaempt to overturn a 0-2 deficit when the two sides meet in the second leg tomorrow in Pretoria.After the conclusion of the third round fixtures four aggregate winners will qualify for the 2026 FIFA U17 Women\u2019s World Cup scheduled October in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya is bidding to return to the global showpiece for the second time in three years after historic debut in 2024 in Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/junior-starlets-held-by-ugandaadvance-to-the-third-round-of-u17-fifa-womens-world-cup\/\">Junior Starlets held by Uganda,advance to the third round of U17 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national U17 Women\u2019s soccer team Junior Starlets have qualified for the third and final round of the 2026 FIFA U17 Women\u2019s World Cup qualifier despite being held to a 0-0 draw by Uganda during their second round,second round duel played at Nyayo National Stadium. RUN VCR AT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kenya advanced to the third round on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}