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AFCON 2025 Qualifiers: Uganda Cranes calls on 27 players for South Sudan double-header

AFCON 2025 Qualifiers: Uganda Cranes calls on 27 players for South Sudan double-header

Uganda Cranes head coach, Paul Put, on Tuesday, named a 27-man squad for their double-header against South Sudan in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers. The 68-year-old Belgian has called on ten players home-based players from the Uganda Premier League including forwards Shafik Kwikiriza and Denis Omedi as well as defender Gavin Kizito Mugweri and midfielder Ronald Ssekiganda. Put also invited South Africa-based goalkeeper Isima...

CHAN 2024: CAF reveals hosts and qualifier dates for historic tournament

CHAN 2024: CAF reveals hosts and qualifier dates for historic tournament

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Thursday, confirmed the host for the 2024 African Nations Championship (CHAN), Afrosport reports. The continental football body revealed that the East African nations of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania will serve as co-hosts for the tournament which is played by players based on the African soil. CAF also announced that the qualifiers for the 2024 CHAN will be played across...

CAF announces dates for 2025 African Nations Championships

CAF announces dates for 2025 African Nations Championships

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Monday, announced the date for the eighth edition of the African Nations Championships (CHAN). CAF 4th Vice President, Seidou Mbombo Njoya, who serves as the Chairperson of the CHAN organising committee, revealed that the tournament will be held from February 1-28, 2025, in the East African nations of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Njoya made the announcement during the press...

FIBA U18: Junior D’tigress upset Egypt to secure historic semifinal berth

FIBA U18: Junior D’Tigress beat Uganda; to face Mali in Women’s Afrobasket final

Nigeria’s Junior D’Tigress avenged their previous group phase defeat to Uganda by beating the East Africans 71-67 in their semifinal matchup inside the University of Pretoria’s Rembrandt Hall on Friday. Juliana Negedu’s ladies were the much better side, winning three of the four quarters, including being in the lead for about 36 minutes in the game. Nigeria headed into the halftime break with a six-point lead...

AFCON 2023: Partey out, Ayew in as Hughton reveals Ghana’s final 27-man squad list

Black Stars: Addo names Ayew brothers, Kudus & 23 others for Nigeria’s friendly

The newly re-appointed head coach of the Ghana national team, Otto Addo, has called upon Andrew and Jordan Ayew, Mohammed Kudus, and 23 other players in his 26-man squad to face Nigeria and Uganda in their upcoming international friendlies. The 48-year-old, who led the Black Stars to the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, has recalled Brighton and Hove Albion full-back Tariq Lamptey, who was absent...