{"id":48194,"date":"2025-12-20T10:48:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/?p=48194"},"modified":"2025-12-20T10:48:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:48:44","slug":"ethiopian-cup-round-of-16-mechal-and-mekele-70-enderta-reach-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/48194\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Cup Round of 16: Mechal and Mekele 70 Enderta reach quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025\/26 Ethiopian Cup Round of 16 games were played in Addis Ababa and Hawassa, as Ethiopian Coffee and Bahirdar Ketema bowed out of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Mechal, Mekele, 70 Enderta, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.panafricafootball.com\/post\/haile-praises-ethiopian-insurance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ethiopian Insurance<\/a>\u00a0booked their places in the quarterfinals of the knockout cup.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopian Coffee lost 1\u20130 to Mekele 70 Enderta at Addis Ababa Stadium. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethiopian_Premier_League\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ethiopian Premier League<\/a>\u00a0strugglers were beaten by the Browns with a superb free-kick goal from Fitsum Alemu in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Mechal defeated Dire Dawa Ketema 5\u20134 on penalties as they progressed to the last eight. Yodahe Dawit\u2019s goal in the second half was cancelled out by Jafar Mudashir as the army side\u2019s hunt for Ethiopian Cup glory continues.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopian Higher League side Boditi Ketema stunned top-flight side Bahirdar Ketema 6\u20135 on penalties after regulation time ended in a one-all draw. The Wolayta side took the lead through veteran player Samson Kolecha, but the Waves of Tana equalised with a strike from Ananya Getachew. Boditi Ketema is the only second-division side to knock out a Premier League team in the round of 16.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(<\/strong><strong>Pan-African Football<\/strong><strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025\/26 Ethiopian Cup Round of 16 games were played in Addis Ababa and Hawassa, as Ethiopian Coffee and Bahirdar Ketema bowed out of the competition. Mechal, Mekele, 70 Enderta, and\u00a0Ethiopian Insurance\u00a0booked their places in the quarterfinals of the knockout cup. Ethiopian Coffee lost 1\u20130 to Mekele 70 Enderta at Addis Ababa Stadium. The\u00a0Ethiopian Premier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":48196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1940],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ethiopian-sport-news"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}