Barbra Banda scored four goals at WAFCON, was banned from WAFCON 2022 by CAF for failing a gender test, won the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year, trains with Marta daily in Orlando, and calls herself a normal girl from Zambia.
Galatasaray president Dursun Ozbek says he will not sell Osimhen for any price this summer. Arsenal have been told a bid above £60 million opens talks. The window closes in ten days. The full anatomy of the transfer that will define the final week of the African player market.
The 2026 CAF Women's Champions League CECAFA qualifiers open today in Kigali. Kawempe Muslim, Simba Queens and Kenya Police Bullets are East Africa's representatives. The full preview of African women's club football's most important ten days in the region.
Denis Masinde Onyango was born in Kampala and spent 15 years at Mamelodi Sundowns. He won 12 PSL titles, the 2016 CAF Champions League, went to the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan, and was ranked the tenth best goalkeeper in the world. He is 41 years old and still at Sundowns. The full story.
Cameroon beat Malawi 3-0 to win their first ever WAFCON title. Marie Ngah scored twice. Naomi Eto scored once. All three goals came before half time. The full match report and complete tournament verdict.
Tabitha Chawinga plays for Olympique Lyonnais. Temwa Chawinga plays for Kansas City Current. Between them they have scored in every round of WAFCON 2026. Their club values are about to move significantly. The commercial portrait of African women's football's most valuable new assets.
He arrived at Chelsea for £24m and was booed by his own supporters within a season. He left as the club's greatest striker, the scorer of the goal and the penalty that won the 2012 Champions League final, and a man credited with helping pause a civil war.
The 2026-27 Betway Premiership begins this week. Orlando Pirates are defending champions with nine new players and a new coach. Kaizer Chiefs made 20 deals. Mamelodi Sundowns hold the CAF Champions League. The data behind South Africa's most contested title race in five years.
In 1995, a man from a Monrovia slum won the Ballon d'Or. No African has won it since. George Weah scored one of the greatest solo goals in Champions League history, paid his national team's travel costs out of his own salary, and became President of Liberia.
He dribbled past Oliver Kahn with five touches and scored what Jürgen Klopp called the greatest goal in Bundesliga history. He won Olympic gold with a Nigerian team that came back from losing positions to beat Brazil and Argentina in the same tournament.
Nigeria have never failed to qualify from a WAFCON group stage. Tonight against Zambia, that record is under the most serious pressure it has ever faced. The data behind the must-win fixture — head to head, group mathematics, World Cup implications.
Channel 4. DAZN. Ziggo. beIN Sports. CAF TV on YouTube. WAFCON 2026 is the most globally distributed women's football tournament Africa has ever produced. The broadcast architecture behind the deal — and what it means for the commercial future of African women's football.
Group A is settled at the top. Group D is the most balanced of the tournament. Group B goes to tonight. Group C waits for Nigeria versus Zambia tomorrow. The WAFCON 2026 group stage standings, patterns and quarter-final picture at the halfway point.
FIFA has crowned the goal of the 2026 World Cup, and it belongs to Cape Verde. Sidny Lopes Cabral's extra time strike against Argentina beat out entries from Messi and Mbappe to win the public vote. The full story behind the goal and what the award means for African football.
Morocco's World Cup quarter final run just paid off for one of its own. Issa Diop completes a permanent move from Fulham to newly promoted Ipswich Town on a four year deal. The numbers, the timeline, and what it means for Morocco's Premier League pipeline.
Motsepe spoke in Johannesburg yesterday. He was proud, he was careful, and on the one question African football most needs answered — who won AFCON 2025 — he had nothing new to say. The full report.
