CAF Awards 2026: Super Falcons Suffer Historic Snub in Women’s Player of the Year Race

 No Nigerian has been named among the many nominees for the 2026
CAF ladies’s participant of the yr award.

 

The listing was launched by CAF on Tuesday, and it’s the first
time no Super Falcons participant will make the nomination reduce because the award’s
inception in 2001.

The snub of Nigerian gamers for the most important continental
particular person award was knowledgeable by the Falcons’ disappointing efficiency on the
2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) and the group’s failure to qualify
for the Women’s World Cup for the primary time in historical past.

The gamers nominated for the 2026 award embrace Malawian
sisters Tabitha Chamwinga and Temwa Chamwinga, and Cameroon’s trio of Marie
Ngah Manga, Michaely Bihina and Monique Ngock.

Others are Zambia’s Barbra Banda, Thembi Kgatlana of South
Africa, Morocco’s Hanane Ait El Haj, Marine Dafeur of Algeria, and Ghana’s
Portia Boakye.

The Super Falcons have been, nonetheless, compensated with a
nomination for one of the best ladies’s nationwide group award, whereas each Janet
Akekoromowei and Oluwakemi Adegbuyi have been for one of the best younger expertise prize.

Edo Queens’ Chriatiana Uzoma can also be named within the working
for one of the best goalkeeper award.

The 2026 CAF Awards will likely be held on the Wole Soyinka Centre
for Culture and the Creative Arts on December 7.

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