Super Falcons, Super Eagles face WAFCON and AFCON scheduling challenge

Super Falcons, Super Eagles face WAFCON and AFCON scheduling challenge

Hassan Abdulsalam 11:23 - 05.06.2024

The date for the 2025 AFCON qualifying draw will be announced following CAF's next executive committee meeting with the qualifiers to take place across September, October, and November later this year.

The Super Eagles of Nigeria and the Super Falcons might face AFCON and WAFCON scheduling challenges as CAF is set to reschedule the tournaments.

African football's governing body, CAF, is facing a scheduling headache for its premier tournaments, the Women's and Men's Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON and AFCON).

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CAF to announce 2024 WAFCON date soon

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced plans to reveal the rescheduled date for the 2024 Women's Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in Morocco soon.

CAF's general secretary, Veron Mosengo-Omba, in an interview with BBC, said that the tournament, originally planned for this year, may be delayed due to player participation in the Olympics.

Powerhouses Nine-time champions, Nigeria and Zambia face a scheduling conflict due to their participation in the Paris Olympics during July and August.

She said, “We are supposed to play this year but we have teams engaged in the Olympics, so we have to find another date.

“We are talking with Uefa because most of the players are playing in Europe, the European Club Association, and also with Fifa to find [a] suitable date.”

The 2024 WAFCON qualifiers were wrapped up last year in December, and scheduling the 12-team finals in Morocco.

CAF set to organise 2025 AFCON in 2026

However, for the Men's 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), CAF is considering shifting it to early 2026 which will be hosted by Morocco.

The shift is due to a scheduling conflict with FIFA's new, expanded 32-team Club World Cup planned for June and July of next year.

“For the men, we need to make sure that the dates that we'll be choosing will be in the interests of the players,” said the Swiss-Congolese, highlighting issues around the workload of the continent’s elite players.

“For this, we need to balance different aspects and also discuss with our partners and then we complete [the dates]. Scheduling is a nightmare for everybody," she said.

The date for the 2025 AFCON qualifying draw will be announced following CAF's next executive committee meeting with the qualifiers to take place across September, October, and November later this year.

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