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.
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.
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.
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.
Vozinha is 40 years old, used to be an electrician, and has just been named in the FIFA World Cup 2026 Team of the Tournament. He is the only African in the XI. He is also the reason Spain never scored against Cape Verde. The full story.
Ten nations. Nine into the knockouts. Zero semi-finalists. One final shaped entirely by what African sides did first. The complete numbers behind Africa's 2026 World Cup.
Argentina face Spain in the World Cup final on Sunday. No African nation is there. But the 2026 World Cup changed what African football expects of itself. Here is the full legacy accounting before the final.
Nine African nations reached the World Cup knockouts. Eight were eliminated by late goals, comebacks, or single controversial moments. The performance data says Africa competed. The scoreboard says something different. Here is the honest analysis.
Senegal face Belgium in Seattle today needing a win to reach the World Cup last 16. Koulibaly's final tournament. Lukaku off the bench. Jackson, Sarr and Mane must convert what they create. Here is everything before kickoff.
South Africa are out. Five African nations remain in the World Cup. Morocco face the Netherlands. Cape Verde face Argentina. Here is the complete, updated picture of Africa's knockout stage as the Round of 32 unfolds.
The group stage is over. Six African nations have reached the World Cup knockout stage, the best showing in the continent's history. Cape Verde face Argentina. Senegal face France's group runner-up. Here is the complete, updated table.
36 wins, a World Cup semi-final, Spain and Portugal defeated — then a resignation 100 days before 2026. The case for Regragui as the greatest coach in African football history, and what Morocco faces without him.
