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WAFCON 2024: CAF move flagship women’s competition to 2025

The Confederation of African Football has shifted the 2024 Women's Africa Cup of Nations to July 2025. The foremost African women’s football competition was initially lined up for July 2024 in Morocco but has been moved by a year due to a congested women's football calendar. Nigeria and Zambia will represent Africa in the women’s football event at the Paris 2024 Olympics which will run from...

AFCON 2025: CAF set date for opening & closing ceremonies

The Executive Committee of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has agreed to stage the 2025 Africa Cup of Nationa from December 2025 to January 2026. The tournament that will take place in Morocco will start on December 21, 2025 and end on January 18, 2026. It will be the first time the biennial football competition will be taking place across two years (2025 and 2026)....

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2025 AFCON Qualifiers: CAF sets date for draw event

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has scheduled July 4 for the draw of the 2025 Africa Cup Of Nations qualifiers in Johannesburg, South Africa. The draw will see 48 nations, including the four winners from the preliminary round (Chad, Eswatini, Liberia and South Sudan) drawn into 12 groups of four teams each to battle it out for places at the finals. Headlining the confirmed nations...

CAF announce date for 2024 Beach Soccer AFCON qualifiers draw

CAF announce date for 2024 Beach Soccer AFCON qualifiers draw

The qualification draw for the 2024 Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations will be held on Thursday, June 13, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) revealed on Tuesday. The draw ceremony, which will take place at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, by 2 pm local time (12 noon Nigerian time). The 2024 Beach Soccer AFCON qualifiers will decide the remaining seven teams that will compete...

‘African Player of the Year’ – Nigerians celebrate Lookman after Europa League final heroics

‘African Player of the Year’ – Nigerians celebrate Lookman after Europa League final heroics

Football enthusiasts are tipping Nigeria’s Ademola Lookman to be the 2024 African Footballer of the Year after scoring a hat-trick in the UEFA Europa League final on Thursday. Lookman single-handedly powered Atalanta to a 3-0 victory against Bayer Leverkusen at the Aviva Stadium. His heroics in the second-tier European competition puts him in the running to succeed compatriot Victor Osimhen who is the reigning African football...