In 30 days, Africa’s premier ladies’s soccer competitors, the TotalEnergies CAF Girls’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) Morocco 2026, will kick off in Rabat.
The opening day of the competitors is scheduled for 26 July at Moulay El Hassan Stadium, the place hosts Morocco will face East African aspect Kenya. The match will kick off at 21h00 native time (20h00 GMT).
Earlier that day, Algeria will face Senegal within the different Group A match at Rabat’s Olympic Stadium, with kick-off scheduled for 18h00 native time (17h00 GMT).
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Now in its 14th version, Africa’s premier ladies’s soccer match continues to mirror the numerous progress made within the ladies’s sport throughout the continent, underpinned by CAF’s strategic dedication to elevated funding in ladies’s soccer.
CAF has made vital progress in rising and growing ladies’s soccer. During the last 5 years, the prize cash for the winners of the Competitors has elevated from USD 150,000 to USD 1 million underneath CAF President Dr Patrice Motsepe.
Historic growth to 16 groups
Morocco 2026 will mark a big milestone within the historical past of the Competitors, with the ultimate match increasing from 12 to 16 taking part nations for the primary time.
The growth varieties a part of CAF’s broader ladies’s soccer technique to strengthen the ladies’s sport by way of elevated participation alternatives, enhanced competitors constructions and better funding in soccer growth throughout the continent.
The 16 nations which have certified for the TotalEnergies CAF Girls’s Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2026 are: Morocco (hosts), Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria (defending champions), Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.
World-class services in Rabat and Casablanca
The Competitors will probably be staged throughout the cities of Rabat and Casablanca, with 5 CAF-approved venues chosen to host matches and official coaching actions. The venues are Stade Moulay El Hassan, Stade Al Madina and Stade Olympique in Rabat, in addition to Stade Larbi Zaouli and Stade Moulay Rachid in Casablanca.
Africa’s finest to compete for continental honours and FIFA Girls’s World Cup qualification
Defending champions Nigeria enter the match looking for to retain the title after successful a record-extending tenth continental crown on the earlier version.
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Nonetheless, the Tremendous Falcons are anticipated to face robust competitors from throughout the continent, together with hosts Morocco, former champions South Africa, conventional powerhouses resembling Cameroon and rising contenders together with Algeria, Zambia, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.
Including additional significance, this yr’s finals will function Africa’s qualification match for the FIFA Girls’s World Cup Brazil 2027.
The 4 quarter-final winners will safe automated qualification to the worldwide showpiece, whereas the 4 groups eradicated at that stage will stay in competition by way of the FIFA Girls’s World Cup play-off pathway.
With continued funding in ladies’s soccer throughout Africa and the rising competitiveness of nationwide groups, the TotalEnergies CAF WAFCON Morocco 2026 is anticipated to be one of the vital carefully contested editions within the match’s historical past.
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