Vihiga Queens, the four times Kenyan Women football Champions, has signed up for Tisini’s innovative predictor service Tano Bora.
The women’s team which currently plays in the Kenyan Women Premier League will use Tano Bora as a way of innovating it’s fans engagement and giving sponsors value.
“The partnership with Tisini is a milestone towards Vihiga Queens long-term strategic positioning plans,” said Michael Senelwa Vihiga Queens CEO “We look forward to use the Tisini partnership to generate positive publicity and enhance our image while building our local and East African Region community relationships by encompassing technology.”
The innovation comes in the year when Vihiga Queens is celebrating it’s tenth anniversary. The football club was founded in 2014.
Tano Bora is a first in East Africa where fans predict live five outcomes – e.g number of corners, goal kicks, throw ins – of a local football game.
The predictions are done online up to six hours before a match kicks off. The predictions close once a game kicks off.
Fans have 15 seconds to predict an outcome. The wining fan is the one who gets the most predictions correct in the fastest time. Fans pay Ksh20 to play each Tano Bora.
The fans can then follow the live data of the game on the Tisini website. Once a game ends, fans receive an SMS notification informing them of the number of correct predictions they achieved.
Tano Bora product allows local fans to predict outcomes on the local football games, which are extremely popular, and win cash prizes and other goodies.
Teams push Tano Bora among their fan bases which goes into hundreds of thousands.
Teams also get access to their team and individual player data, which helps them analyse and improve their performance. Teams also get individual player stats which aids in their player development and trading.
Vihiga Queens has won four domestic titles (2017, 2018, 2019, 2023), and one CECAFA WCL Qualifiers Championship in 2021 which came with the honour of becoming the first female club from East African region to compete at the continental level, the 2021 CAF WCL in Egypt.
Important about the partnership:
- Tano Bora product allows local fans to predict outcomes on the local football games, which are extremely popular, and win cash prizes and other goodies.
- The predictions are done online up to six hours before a match kicks off. The predictions close once a game kicks off.
- Fans have 15 seconds to predict an outcome. The wining fan is the one with the most correct predictions in the fastest time.
- Fans pay Ksh20 to play each Tano Bora.
- The fans can then follow the live data of the game on the Tisini website.
- Once a game ends, fans receive an SMS notification informing them of the number of correct predictions they achieved.