Who Will Be East Africa’s Top Team?
11 JUNE 2025
Top Team, Scania’s awarded competition training programme for its service technicians and parts experts, has begun. After rigorous theoretical rounds, fifteen service professionals from Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania will compete in the East Africa National Final scheduled to take place on 14th June, 2025 in Nairobi, Kenya, for a chance to represent East Africa in the Regional Final set to take place in Bangkok, Thailand in February 2026.
Team Nyati from Kenya, Team Lion from Uganda, and Team Kilimanjaro from Tanzania emerged winners from their respective countries during the theoretical rounds which had thirteen teams participating from different workshops across the region. During the National Final, the three teams will battle it out to be crowned East Africa’s Top Team, and the ultimate prize of representing the region in the Regional Final.
Dubbed the ultimate challenge for professional service teams, Top Team has been developed to continually enhance the skills, knowledge, professionalism and teamwork in Scania’s workshops all over the world. Scania’s service personnel develop their skills by combining training and teamwork, while at the same time providing a competition that will be an unforgettable and enriching experience for the participating teams.
Additionally, through the competition and the skills and training the service team gain and receive, the resulting benefit for Scania customers is more effective service. “The ultimate goal for Scania workshops worldwide is to provide services that support our customers’ business,” explains Rahim Khajebahri, Services Director, at Scania East Africa. “This in turn requires a highly proficient service team. Scania Top Team is a fantastic way of celebrating the skills, knowledge, professionalism, and teamwork that characterise the people who work in the front line every day,” Rahim adds on.
During the competition, sustainability learning will once again be embedded in the competition through practical training activities for the service teams. The aim of this is to engage the teams as sustainability change agents through their everyday work.
True to Scania’s continuous improvement philosophy, Top Team has developed from a national training event into today’s global training programme. During the competition, the winners of the national finals will meet at one of six international regional rounds, and of those, 12 teams will qualify for the world final set to take place in Sodertalje, Sweden in May 2026, where the winning team will receive a prize of 50,000 EUR.
More information about Top Team is available on www.scania.com/topteam
Follow the competition on social media using the hashtag #scaniatopteam
