By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja, with report from Yabiladi, Morocco As confusion continues to reign supreme over the host country for the 2026 Women Africa Cup of Nations WAFCON), a senior official at the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) has commented on rumors suggesting that South Africa could host the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) instead of Morocco, saying the ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja As expected, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Disciplinary Board has imposed multiple sanctions on the Fédération Sénégalaise de Football (FSF), the Fédération Royale Marocaine de Football (FRMF) and certain players and officials for the incidents during the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025 Final, which violated the CAF Disciplinary Code. For their ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja For his great service for the beautiful game and knowledge of African football, former Super Falcons head coach Thomas Dennerby has landed in Cairo, the capital city of Egypt, for a week-long FIFA Talent Hunt Programme. Sweden-born Dennerby, who won the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) 9th title for Nigeria ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja Nigeria’s senior men national team, Super Eagles, is close to running on auto-pilot and will definitely achieve a lot of success under the present technical crew headed by Franco-Malian tactician Éric Chelle, says President of Nigeria Football Federation, Ibrahim Musa Gusau.  Gusau, also President of the sub-regional bloc WAFU B, opined that with what the ...

By Harry Awurumibe,  Editor,  ABUJA BUREAU In what looks like an easy group, reigning African champions Nigeria have been drawn in Group C with rivals Zambia, North Africans Egypt, and debutant Malawi as the Confederation of African Football (CAF) today held the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) Morocco 2026 final draw at the Mohammed VI Football Complex in Rabat. ...

AFCON 2025: Dominant Nigeria beats Algeria 2 nil, qualify for semi-final By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief Two second-half goals scored by Victor Osimhen and Akor Adams in the 48′ and 57′ respectively earned Nigeria a 2-0 victory over the Desert Foxes and also qualified the Super Eagles for a place in the last four of the 35th CAF African Cup of ...

…Announces remaining CAF Awards 2025 women’s category winners too The Final Draw for the TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) Morocco 2026 will be held in Rabat on Thursday, 15 January 2025. On the same day, the Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF) will also announce the winners of the CAF Women’s Coach of the Year and other outstanding ...

 Head Coach Eric Sékou Chelle has opted for goalkeeper Stanley Nwabali, defenders Calvin Bassey, Semi Ajayi and Zaidu Sanusi, midfielders Wilfred Ndidi and Frank Onyeka, and forwards Victor Osimhen and Ademola Lookman, and 20 other players to make up Nigeria’s 28-man roster for the 35th Africa Cup of Nations starting in Morocco in 10 days’ time.  The Franco-Malian also picked ...

BREAKING: CAF cancels 2026 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup qualifiers, WAFCON holds March By Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has cancelled the New Year’s fixtures of the 2026 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup (FIFA U-17 WWC) qualifiers earlier scheduled for the first week of January 2026 even as it also abolished the first round of ...

By Harry Awurumibe,A frica’s No.1 Women Football Journalist Nigeria may be a top country in women’s football in Africa, but that is only at the national team level as the performance of her clubsides in the Five-year old continental club competition named CAF Women’s Champions League (CAFWCL) is nothing to write home about as clubs from South Africa, Morocco, Egypt, ...