The Confédération Africaine de Football (“CAF”) is concerned about the respect and image of football in South Africa, following the raid by the Hawks Serious Commercial Crime Investigation Unit on the South African Football Association (“SAFA”) Headquarters. CAF is looking into this matter based on and in accordance with the …
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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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The draw for the African School Football Championship (ASFC) UNIFFAC Zone was conducted on Thursday, March 14 at the Tata Raphaël Sports Complex, in Kinshasa. The draw officially outlined the fixtures set to take place over the two days at the same venue and where the zone’s representatives will be …
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Morocco will be hosts of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup for the next five consecutive editions starting from 2025. This was officially confirmed by world football governing body, FIFA on Thursday, March 14 where Qatar was named hosts of the next five editions of the FIFA U-17 World Cup. …
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With just a few days to go before the UNIFFAC CAF Zone kicks off the final leg of the CAF African Schools Football Championship (ASFC) Zonal Qualifiers, CAF is staging various capacity building initiatives as part of the competition’s parallel objective of capacitating future African leaders. The second season of …
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Benin’s Sports Minister Benoît M. K. Dato and Beninese Football Association (FBF) President and FIFA Council member Mathurin de Chacus talked football development in the West African nation with FIFA’s Director Member Associations Africa, Gelson Fernandes, at a meeting in FIFA’s Paris office. The FBF has made excellent use of …
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The TotalEnergies CAF Champions League Quarterfinals journey was officially mapped out on Tuesday at the official draw held in Cairo, Egypt. Conducted by Ivorian football legend Siaka Tiene who was joined by Egyptian football icon, Ahmed Hassan, the draw for the quarter-finals produced what promises to be highly entertaining fixtures …
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The TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup Quarterfinals draw was officially conducted in Cairo on Tuesday, March 12 where the fate of the last Eight (8) clubs was outlined through the draw of the knockout stages of the competition. The draw produced interesting outcomes, with all four competition champions (USM Alger, RS …
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The Democratic Republic of Congo will host the final leg of the CAF African Schools Football Championship (ASFC), as the UNIFFAC Zone prepares to stage the closing phase of the Zonal Qualifiers. Following the highly successful Zonal qualifiers held by COSAFA, CECAFA, UNAF, WAFU A and WAFU B, Kinshasa plays …
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The race is on for African clubs to secure the remaining places at FIFA’s new 32-team club world cup tournament – the Mundial de Clubes FIFA – which makes its debut in the United States in 2025. Two of the continent’s four qualification spots have already been claimed by recent …
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