The Confederation of African Football (CAF) President, Patrice Motsepe, has finally agreed to seek re-election in March 2025 following widespread endorsements from numerous CAF Member Association Presidents and Zonal Union Presidents. The South African billionaire, who was first elected as CAF President on 12 March 2021, in Rabat, Morocco, made his re-election bid public on Friday after months of speculation …

The Super Eagles of Nigeria have been nominated for the prestigious National Team of the Year award at the 2024 Confederation of African Football (CAF) Awards. Their consistent form, highlighted by a crucial victory over Libya, has placed them among Africa’s elite national teams. In the post by CAF on Thursday via X (formerly Twitter), in-form striker Victor Boniface and …

The Confederation of African Football (CAF), on Tuesday, said it has commenced a (proper) investigation over the recent controversy surrounding Nigeria’s AFCON qualifier against Libya. The president, Patrice Motsepe, revealed this at a press conference after the 46th Ordinary General Assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. During his address, Motsepe who refrained from any detailed explanation on the incident, said CAF …

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) will on Wednesday announce its decision on the botched AFCON qualifying Group D match between Libya and Nigeria, which was scheduled for Martyrs of February Stadium in Benina, Benghazi on 15 October. According to Libya Al-Ahrar Channel, the apex continental football body will announce the final decision regarding the players’ ordeal during the first …

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has removed the Group D second-leg fixture between Nigeria’s Super Eagles and Libya’s Mediterranean Knights from the ongoing 2025 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers. The match was originally scheduled to take place in Libya at 8 p.m., following Nigeria’s 1-0 victory in the first leg, at Godswill Akpabio Stadium, Uyo, on Friday. Controversy …

The Confederation of African Football has expressed deep concern over the troubling ordeal faced by Nigeria’s national football team, the Super Eagles, at a Libyan airport. The federation highlighted immediate steps to engage both Libyan and Nigerian authorities, following reports that the team and their staff were left stranded under distressing conditions for several hours. The incident is now under …

The eighth African Nations Championships will be held from 1 to 28 February in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Patrice Motsepe said Monday. The biennial Aifrican Nations Championships (CHAN) is restricted to locally-based players, ruling out big name footballers who move to Europe. It will be the first time East Africa hosts a continental football …

Ghana’s Black Stars are likely to host their remaining 2025 Africa Cup of Nations home qualifiers in Nigeria, according to multiple reports in the West African country. This followed the Confederation of African Football’s rejection of their home venue, the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi. CAF’s inspection team had deemed the stadium unsuitable for competitive matches flagging the major structural …

Nigeria’s representatives in this year’s CAF Champions Club competitions, Rangers, Remo Stars, Enyimba, and El-Kanemi Warriors, will get $50,000 each as participation fees in the preliminary stages of the Champions League and Confederation Cup. Nigerian champions, Rangers and runners-up Remo Stars are representing the country in the Champions League, while Enyimba, who finished third in the Nigeria Professional Football League, …

The next Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) will be played in Morocco from 21 December 2025 to 18 January 2026, Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Patrice Motsepe said on Friday. “I am confident that the CAF AFCON Morocco 2025 will be extremely successful and the best AFCON in the history of this competition”, he said. CAF held a virtual …