The first leg of the U-17 Women’s World Cup qualifier between Ghana and Morocco will be refereed by Burundi official, Suavis Iratunga. According to the GFA, Suavis Iratunga will be assisted by compatriots Fides Bangurambona, Arcella Uwizera and Aline Umutoni who will serve as the first and second assistants and the fourth official. Latré-Kayi Edzona Lawson Hogban from Togo has ...
According to the Algeria Football Federation (FAF), The CHAN 2023 African Nations Championship scheduled in Algeria from January 8 to 31 will be increased from 16 teams to 18 teams. The announcement was made by the Algerian Football Federation (FAF) on Monday evening on its Facebook page. The decision to increase the participating teams was taken at the end of ...
Road to the 34th edition of the international men’s football championship of Africa will commence in the first week of June as CAF releases some of the home ground of the 48 teams ahead of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers. A total of 24 teams will qualify to play in the final tournament, including Ivory Coast, who qualify ...
With less than a month to the first games of AFCON 2023 Qualifiers, 14 countries including the host of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations are without a home ground to host their upcoming AFCON qualifiers matches. While countries like Burkina Faso, Lesotho, Namibia, South Sudan, and Burundi have settled down in Morocco, South Africa, Egypt and Tanzania others are ...
Age cheating is a common practice in African football to an extent that players in amateur leagues are known to have two ages. Age fabrication also allows an older player to enter in youth competitions. FIFA says that “over-age players have been wrongly entered into various youth competitions, often benefiting from an unfair advantage due to their greater physical maturity ...
Former Accra Hearts of Oak attacker Charles Taylor has hit back at some critics, blaming the Phobians for his failure to have played in Europe during his peak. According to the 2000 CAF Champions League winner, Accra Hearts of Oak rejected several offers from Europe only to accept that of Kotoko, hence his failure to play in one of the ...
The Black Stars will open their 2023 africa cup of nations group E qualifiers against Madagascar at home. According to Caf,match day 1 and 2 is scheduled for May 30 and July 14 2022 Day 3 and 4 set for September 19-27 2022. Below are the order of matches. ...
The road to Cote d’Ivoire TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations will gain momentum in June 2022 when the Group Stages commence. The draw for the group stages will be conducted on Tuesday, 19 April 2022 but the qualifiers will have more than 10 countries playing their home games away from home due to a stadium ban by CAF. More than ...
The Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi has been declared not fit to host any CAF or FIFA sanctioned games for the foreseeable future. The venue was granted a one-match only license to host the 2022 World Cup play-off match between Ghana and Nigeria last month. Here are the 19 things wrong with the Baba Yara Stadium: ...
The National Sports Authority (NSA) wishes to debunk reports going round that its stadia have been rejected by CAF after visits. NSA is waiting on GFA’s request as to which stadia they intend to use for their CAF matches. Such communication hasn’t been received yet and therefore no CAF inspection conducted in our facilities recently for CAF matches this season. ...