Confederation of African Soccer (CAF) president Patrice Motsepe has introduced a document enhance in prize cash for the Ladies’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), as a part of the confederation’s dedication to accelerating the expansion of girls’s soccer throughout the continent.
The whole prize pool has elevated by 67%, rising from $3.475 million to $5.8 million. The champions will now obtain $2 million—double the earlier $1 million prize—whereas the runners-up will earn $750,000 and the third-placed crew $500,000.
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In one other first, every of the 16 taking part groups will obtain $150,000 in participation funding, reinforcing CAF’s long-term technique to strengthen ladies’s soccer at each nationwide and continental ranges.
“Our goal is to proceed investing in ladies’s soccer and be sure that our member associations dedicate extra sources to growing the ladies’s recreation throughout the continent,” Motsepe stated throughout a press convention in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Wednesday.
“We’re dedicated to investing in ladies’s soccer as a result of the way forward for African soccer is dependent upon creating extra alternatives for our feminine gamers and guaranteeing our member associations proceed to develop the ladies’s recreation.”
CAF believes the elevated monetary assist will encourage member associations to speculate extra in ladies’s soccer, expertise identification and participant improvement throughout the continent.
Constructing on Africa’s World Cup success
Reflecting on Africa’s historic efficiency on the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Motsepe stated the continent had taken one other main step ahead on the worldwide stage.
“If you happen to take a look at the proportion of African groups that certified for the Spherical of 32, it’s the highest within the historical past of African soccer on the FIFA World Cup,” he stated.
To construct on that success, CAF will enhance funding in its 54 member associations and launch a continental community of youth academies in partnership with governments and personal traders.
“Our aim is to develop academies that mix schooling and soccer, giving younger African expertise the chance to succeed each on and off the pitch,” Motsepe stated.
The initiative kinds a part of CAF’s long-term technique to strengthen youth improvement and assist African nations compete constantly on the highest stage of world soccer.
