German football giants Bayern Munich have announced a five-year football development and tourism promotion partnership with Rwanda. The partnership, unveiled during FC Bayern’s first home game of the season, will see the club work specifically with Rwanda’s Ministry of Sports to set up a football academy to strengthen the development …
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The accelerated growth of the women’s game continues to yield results across the continent, thanks to the Confédération Africaine de Football’s (CAF) ongoing efforts of closing the gender disparity in African football development. For the past few months, CAF has, and continues to be on an extensive drive of supporting …
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Amid the excitement around the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, AWIEF is thrilled to announce Fatma Samoura, FIFA Secretary General, as a Keynote Speaker at the Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) 2023 Conference. Senegal-born Samoura is the first African and first woman to hold the role of Secretary …
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The World Football Summit, the biggest platform dedicated to the football industry, and APO Group, the leading pan-African communications consultancy and press release distribution service, are proud to announce that FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samoura has been selected as the recipient of the inaugural World Football Summit Lifetime Achievement Award. …
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Sadio Mané has agreed a move from Bundesliga champions FC Bayern Munich to Al Nassr in Saudi Arabia. The 31-year-old forward joined the German record champions from Liverpool FC a year ago. FC Bayern CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen said, “We want to thank Sadio Mané for the past season. It certainly …
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The 2023 CAF Women’s Champions League – now on its third year in a row – will be played in Côte d’Ivoire between November 5-19, 2023. This is as the country prepares for its glorious moment when it hosts the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations in January 2024. The …
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FIFA has opened an invitation to tender (“ITT”) for the centralised media rights to all of the African qualifying matches, which will determine the African teams that will compete at the FIFA World Cup 26. An agreement was reached with all 54 member associations of CAF in August 2019, according …
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The prestigious CAF Awards will make a welcome return on December 11, 2023 in Morocco to celebrate the stars of African football. After last year’s successful event hosted in the Moroccan capital of Rabat, which saw Senegal inspirational forward Sadio Mane and Nigeria and Barcelona top striker Asisat Oshoala claim …
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The draw for the 2023/24 season of the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League and CAF Confederation Cup preliminary stages on Tuesday will signal kick-off of this year’s club competition continental football. The preliminary stages draw will be conducted on Tuesday, July 25, 2023 at 14h00 Cairo time (11h00 GMT) at the …
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CAF’s Anti-Doping Unit recently concluded a highly successful two-day workshop held in partnership with the Liberian Football Association at the FA’s headquarters in Monrovia, Liberia. The workshop held on 18 and 19 July 2023 was spearheaded by CAF’s Antidoping Panel Member, Dr Zakia Bartegi alongside CAF Antidoping Senior Manager, Sherif …
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