CAF Awards rescheduled to carry on December 2

The 2026 CAF Awards ceremony has been rescheduled for
December 2.

 

In an announcement on Tuesday, the African soccer governing
physique introduced that the occasion has been moved ahead by 5 days.

CAF gave no cause for the change, however the Wole Soyinka
Centre for Culture and Creative Arts, previously the National Art Theatre, in
Lagos, stays the venue for the ceremony.

The award gala will start by 7 pm Nigerian time, and the
voting course of runs until November 20.

In October, CAF had introduced that the award occasion can be
held on December 7 — two weeks after the confederation’s forthcoming Ordinary
General Assembly in Abuja.

No Super Falcons participant was nominated for the ladies’s participant
of the yr prize, for the primary time for the reason that award’s inception in 2001.

Similarly, no Super Eagles participant made the lads’s participant of
the yr shortlist for the primary time since 2015.

However, Janet Akekoromowei and Flamingos’s Oluwakemi
Adegbuyi might be up for the very best younger expertise prize. Edo Queens’ Chriatiana
Uzoma can be named within the operating for the very best goalkeeper award.

Nigeria final hosted the award gala on January 6, 2017, when
Algeria’s Riyad Mahrez gained the lads’s greatest participant award, and Asisat Oshoala gained
the ladies’s prize.

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