The Women’s Africa Cup of Nations is the continental tournament to find the best women’s international team in Africa. It has existed in some form since 1991 but the current competition’s history really starts in 1998; it has generally been held every two years since then.
Author: Johnson Benguru
Less than a year before the Confederation of African Football (Caf) begins inspecting venues for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon), Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania are in a race against time to transform ambitious infrastructure plans into tournament-ready facilities.
One week after the World Cup final, FIFA President Gianni Infantino attacked perceived critics for “spreading hate and false rumors” about the tournament
Champions in 2022, the Banyana Banyana open their tournament against a Tanzanian side they already know well. This will be their third meeting in the final stage, and the second consecutive time that the draw has brought them together. The historical record clearly favors South Africa: a 2-1 win in their first clash in 2010,…
At the outset of the 2026 edition of the World Cup, our Economics Observatory model made a bold prediction about Argentina: we said that they were by quite some way the team most likely to win the tournament. This provoked a fair amount of comment, as almost nobody else had Argentina as favourites, let alone…
Morocco made an immediate statement at the TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations 2026 as the hosts swept aside Kenya 4-0 in their opening Group A match at the Moulay El Hassan Stadium in Rabat on Sunday.