First-named teams host the matches, with first-leg results in brackets.
Browsing: caf
The 2021/22 season will kick-off on 10 September 2021 with the first round of the Preliminaries.
The draw of the AFCON 2021 finals draw was initially scheduled to be held in Yaounde, on 25 June. However, the Continental body also announced that the new date for the AFCON 2021 draw would be announced in due course.
The Peoples Elephants, who had suffered a crushing 1-4 defeat last Sunday in Cairo, exited the second tier CAF club competition on 5-2 aggregate.
The NFF supremo. recently elected into world football’s highest decision-making organ, FIFA Council, was in eminent company with President of world football-governing body FIFA, Gianni Infantino, and the President of CAF, Dr. Patrice Motsepe, as they paid a visit to the President of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, in Abidjan.
Benin’s players initially would not leave the team bus after being told the players who had tested positive were ineligible for the crucial Group L match in Freetown, where Sierra Leone needed to win, while Benin required only a draw for a place in next January’s finals.
The Nigeria Football Federation’s Director of Communications, Ademola Olajire, stated on Friday that 42-year-old Rédouane Jiyed, an international referee since 2009 and currently one of the highest-rated referees in Africa, would be the centre referee.
The matches will be played on Wednesday across Africa.
This followed elections held at the CAF Ordinary and Elective General Assembly in Rabat, Morocco on Friday.
The fixtures are scheduled for play on Wednesday.
Mosengo-Omba initially joined FIFA in 2016 as Director MAs with responsibility for Africa and the Caribbean, and subsequently spent the past two years supporting all FIFA 211 MAs to implement the FIFA Forward development programme, as well as managing relationships with all FIFA MAs and continental confederations in his role as Chief Officer of the division.
NFF General Secretary, Dr Mohammed Sanusi said the report was sheer falsehood as such was never even discussed either on the floor of the Congress or at any meeting of the CAF leadership.
Ahmad was handed a five-year ban from all football-related activities after being found guilty of misusing CAF’s finances for his own benefit.
CAF Director of Competitions Samson Adamu conducted the draw, assisted by Mauritania’s legend Mustapha Fall on Wednesday in Nouakchott, Mauritania.
The ceremony, which will be conducted by CAF’s Director of Competitions, Samson Adamu, will commence at 2pm Nigeria time and will be broadcast on CAF’s digital platforms.
The first-named teams host the second leg, with first-leg results in brackets.
The first-named teams hosted the first-leg.
The decision to re-admit Ahmad as a candidate comes after his five-year ban from football by Fifa was temporarily suspended by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on January 29.
Ahmad was banned by Fifa in November for five years after football’s world governing body found him to have breached several of its ethics codes.
The Chairman of Sportsville Communications, Hon. Frank Ilaboya, said the award was in recognition and appreciation of the tireless efforts of the President of the Nigeria Football Federation towards putting Nigeria in a prominent place of pride in world football both on the field and in the boardroom.