The 2023 edition of the Peace Cup, Rwanda’s second biggest football tournament, will kick off on February 7, the football governing body (Ferwafa) has announced.

The annual tournament attracts top flight and second tier league teams where the champions book a ticket to represent the country at the CAF Confederation Cup.

AS Kigali won last season’s Peace Cup after beating rivals APR 1-0 in the final at Kigali Stadium back in June 2022.

The league leaders will be hoping to defend the title again and win it for a record three times in a row when this year’s Peace Cup takes action.

Interested teams now have until January 20 to have registered to take part in this year’s edition as indicated in a press statement released by Ferwafa on Monday.

The federation will take care of some financial burden from participating teams by paying travel expenses and ambulance fees for them.

This year's Peace Cup will start with the preliminaries before teams head to the two-leg knockout stages starting from the round of 32.