Nigeria To Host 2026 CAF Award
Nigeria will host the 2026 CAF Awards after President Bola Tinubu approved the country’s bid during the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi, Kenya.
The approval also covers the hosting of the 48th CAF Ordinary General Assembly later this year.
Top football officials, including CAF president Patrice Motsepe and NFF president Ibrahim Gusau, attended the meeting where the decision was reached.
The Nigeria Football Federation confirmed that the CAF General Assembly will hold in October and will bring together football leaders from across Africa.
The gathering is expected to host presidents of CAF’s 54 member associations, zonal representatives and other senior football administrators from the continent.
The CAF Awards ceremony remains one of Africa’s biggest football events, celebrating the continent’s best players, teams and officials.
The last edition took place in Rabat, Morocco, where Achraf Hakimi won the Men’s Player of the Year award, while Nigeria’s Chiamaka Nnadozie and the Super Falcons claimed honours in the women’s categories.
Nigeria has hosted the CAF Awards four times in the past, with Lagos staging the 2015 edition at the Eko Hotel Convention Centre.
That ceremony saw Yaya Touré equal Samuel Eto’o’s record with a fourth straight African Player of the Year award, while Asisat Oshoala began her rise in African women’s football after winning her first continental crown on home soil.
