Champagne says Kenya should sort out the mess by 18 October or face sanctions

Fifa has told Kenya's football federation (KFF) it has no mandate to run the country's championship after Tuesday's release of fixtures for parallel leagues compounded chaos.

Despite Fifa's warnings, the KFF and its rival Kenya Premier League (KPL) published match schedules for parallel championships, the second time in as many months this has happened amid a battle for control.

Kenya's top football clubs split into two factions earlier this year but Jerome Champagne, Fifa's deputy general secretary, said the KFF does not have the right to decide which teams should be included in the championship.

"Clubs participating in leagues are not decided by federations, but by independent boards - in this case KPL," Champagne said on Wednesday.

Despite a warning from Fifa president Sepp Blatter for Kenya to sort out the mess by 18 October or face sanctions, both the KFF and the KPL are ploughing their own courses.

Last month the Kenyan government gave one of the two rival bodies an ultimatum to dissolve voluntarily or be forced to deregister.

The government did not say which of the two bodies should close down but observers said it would be KPL.

Kenya was threatened with suspension from all football activity at Fifa's annual congress in Marrakesh last year because of government interference in the running of the sport.