This will be the third UEMOA Tournament contest. It is a competition for domestic-league football players from the eight UEMOA member countries: Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Niger, Togo, Benin, Senegal and Guinea-Bissau.
The Togolese Football Federation announced their intention to host the tournament at Lomé [1] but the tournament was hosted in Benin. [2]