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 …

The qualifying draw for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa on 4 July, according to the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The 48 competing teams will be split into 12 groups of four, with the top two in each group reaching the finals in Morocco. The tournament hosts will be included in …

The Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) has denied reports that the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, which will be held in Morocco has been postponed. This is in the wake of viral reports claiming the body had pushed the tournament forward by six months to the start of 2026 due to a clashing timeline with the expanded 32-team FIFA Club …

Golden Eaglets players have all passed the mandatory Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) test ahead of the WAFU B U-17 Championship in Accra, Ghana. The Confederation of African Football on Tuesday declared that all 20 players presented by Nigeria for the championship, which begins on Wednesday, have passed the examination. The Eaglets, who are the defending champions, landed in Accra with …

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) is set to scrap its second-tier club competition, the Confederation Cup, according to reports. The Confederation Cup was established in 2004 from a merger of the CAF Cup and the African Cup Winners’ Cup. CAF introduced a new competition, the African Football League last year. The African Football League, which started with eight teams …

Confederation of African Football (CAF) and former Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh, have both lauded Nigerian striker, Victor Boniface, after playing a starring role in Bayer Leverkusen’s historical Bundesliga triumph. Leverkusen emerged champions of Germany for the first time in their 120-year history, ending Bayern Munich’s stranglehold on the league after 11 title wins in a row. Xabi Alonso’s side …

Super Eagles of Nigeria midfielder, Frank Onyeka, was the best tackler in the just-concluded 2023 AFCON, according to the Confederation of African Football (CAF). Frank Onyeka was nicknamed the “tank” due to his unprecedented display at the tournament in which he played all seven Eagles’ games at the competition. He was very instrumental in the Super Eagles of Nigeria’s run …