{"id":3627,"date":"2014-01-11T04:14:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T04:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=3627"},"modified":"2014-01-22T16:04:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T16:04:49","slug":"gor-mahia-to-start-title-defence-on-feb-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-to-start-title-defence-on-feb-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia to start title defence on Feb 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/jerim-cup2.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of goal.com<\/p>\n<p>According to the 2014 fixtures released on Friday, Gor and AFC will not be in action on the opening week as they will be involved in continental football<\/p>\n<p>Former Kenyan Premier League champions Tusker begin their quest to regain the league title against Thika United away on February 16 as the new season kicks-off.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champions Gor Mahia and rivals AFC Leopards\u2019 will not be in action on the first day of competition as they will be involved in continental football.<\/p>\n<p>But they play their first match on February 19 with Gor Mahia taking on Nairobi City Stars at City Stadium while Leopards host KCB at Nyayo Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Debutants, Top Fry Nakuru, face a baptism of fire when they travel to Awendo to face Sony Sugar on February 15 while fellow first-timers KRA also face a challenging on the road fixture against Bandari in Mombasa a day later.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0league body has included, GOtv Shield, in its fixtures with specific dates indicated. The Football Kenya Federation-organised tournament will begin on April 26 and will be played on weekends where no league matches will be staged.<\/p>\n<p><strong>KPL opening weekend fixtures: February 15 <\/strong>\u2013 Western Stima v Mathare United (Bukhungu Stadium), Sony Sugar v Top Fry Nakuru (Awendo), Muhoroni Youth v Sofapaka Muhoroni), Ulinzi Stars v Chemelil Sugar (Afraha Stadium); <strong>February 16 <\/strong>\u2013 Bandari v KRA (Mbaraki Sports ground), Thika United v Tusker (Thika Municipal Stadium; <strong>February 19 <\/strong>\u2013 Gor Mahia v City Stars (City Stadium), KCB v AFC Leopards (Nyayo Stadium).<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-to-start-title-defence-on-feb-19\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>courtesy of goal.com According to the 2014 fixtures released on Friday, Gor and AFC will not be in action on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}