FIFA Director Member Associations Africa Gelson Fernandes has called the FIFA Series “a great step” in creating new opportunities for African countries to face opponents from other continents. With the express aim of enabling more teams from across FIFA’s six confederations to play each other more frequently and in line …
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The investment in football infrastructure in Africa, building and maintenance of stadiums in the 54 CAF Member Associations has been the one of the key strategic focus areas of the CAF Leadership. And, with African football enjoying unprecedented global interest thanks to the world-class TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations …
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The Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF), through its Member Associations division, will once again gather its 54 Member Associations for a crucial CAF Safeguarding workshop that will focus especially on Anti-Player Trafficking. In 2022, CAF launched the CAF Safeguarding programme through which Safeguarding focal points were appointed across CAF’s 54 …
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With the final round of qualifiers for the Women’s Football Tournament at the Olympics for the two African representatives set to take place next month, the official draw of the group stages was officially conducted on Wednesday evening in Paris. Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia are the four nations …
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Following the successful rollout of the pilot phase of the CAF Club Licensing Online Platform (CLOP), CAF is proud to extend the revolutionary initiative to top-tier men’s club competitions across all 54 Member Associations. The CLOP system CLOP is an electronic tool designed by CAF to oversee the club licensing …
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The FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 in Australia and New Zealand demonstrated to the world that women’s football in Africa is going from strength to strength. For the first time ever, three teams from the continent proudly progressed to the Round of 16: Nigeria, South Africa and Morocco. The introduction …
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A total of eighty (80) girls from the villages of Kongo-Central took part in a football festival organised by CAF to conclude the CAF D Licence training programme in Kwilu-Ngongo, DR Congo. The festival, held at the Kwilu-Foot Academy, consisted of various football workshops designed for girls aged between 6 …
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CAF held a four-day CAF Women’s Football Capacity building workshop in Egypt, Cairo aimed at strengthening Member Association’s operational deliverables in improving the standard of Women’s Football in Africa. The workshop that started on 26 February, was attended by the CAF Member Associations administrators. In the last three years, Women’s …
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Reigning champions of the CAF Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations, Senegal, will be joined by the competition’s runners-up, Egypt at the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup set to kick off on Thursday, February 15 in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The 13th edition of the FIFA Beach …
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On the sidelines of the semifinals of the 2023 TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), the Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF) and the Rebranding Africa Forum (RAF) signed a charter that will allow them to collaborate in positioning football as a lever for growth and to …
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