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How the 34-match season is structured, how ties are broken and how the relegation playoff works.
The Kenyan Premier League is contested by 18 clubs in a double round-robin. Each club plays every other club twice — home and away — which gives every team 34 matches and the division 306 fixtures in a full season.
The season runs on an August–May calendar, a change made in 2018 when the league moved away from a February–November schedule. The league was founded in 1963 and is run by the Football Kenya Federation.
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When clubs finish level on points, the ranking is decided by goal difference, then goals scored, then the head-to-head record between the clubs concerned. The order is fixed, so goal difference is the first and most important separator.
At the bottom of the table, the two lowest-placed clubs are relegated to the National Super League. The 16th-placed club — one place above the automatic drop — plays a promotion playoff, which keeps a relegation risk alive for a club that would otherwise be safe.
The champion is the club that finishes top after the 34 matches, with the tie-break order applied if points are level. The same rules apply at both ends of the table, which is why late-season goal difference can matter as much as the points total.
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