CAF competitions National teams: ;Men •
Africa Cup of Nations •
African Nations League •
U-23 Africa Cup of Nations •
U-20 Africa Cup of Nations •
U-17 Africa Cup of Nations •
CAF African Schools U15 Boy's •
Futsal Africa Cup of Nations • African Youth Olympic Futsal Qualifying Tournament •
Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations ;Women •
Women's Africa Cup of Nations •
African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification •
African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification •
CAF African Schools U15 Girl's •
Women's Futsal Africa Cup of Nations ;
Defunct •
African Nations Championship Clubs: •
CAF Super Cup •
CAF Champions League •
CAF Confederation Cup •
CAF Women's Champions League • CAF U-20 Women's Champions League ;
Defunct • ''
African Cup Winners' Cup'' •
CAF Cup •
African Football League Regional: •
CECAFA Cup •
WAFU Nations Cup •
COSAFA Cup •
CEMAC Cup •
UNIFFAC Cup (U-17) •
UNAF U-23 Tournament ;
Defunct •
Amilcar Cabral Cup •
CEMAC Cup Inter Continental: ;
Defunct •
Afro-Asian Cup of Nations •
Afro-Asian Club Championship •
UEFA–CAF Meridian Cup International Shortly after formation, CAF organised the
Africa Cup of Nations (abbreviated AFCON) in 1957 and it has since become its flagship competition. Faced with undisclosed decline in popularity of local competitions and the mass exodus of homegrown footballers to Europe, Asia and the Americas in the 1990s and early 2000s, CAF launched the
African Nations Championship (alternatively, though not widely used, the Championship of African Nations (CHAN)) on 11 September 2007 and began organisation two years later, to address this issue. CAF also organises qualification tournaments/competitions for the
FIFA U-20 World Cup and the
FIFA U-17 World Cup for its member associations; both of which initially began on a home-and-away
two-legged basis but has since 1995 been organised in appointed host countries as respectively the
Under-20 and
U-17 Africa Cup of Nations. For
women's football operates competitions which currently serve as qualification tournaments for the related FIFA-organised tournaments which launched at the exact same year they began formation. The flagship African women's football competition/tournament is the
Women's Africa Cup of Nations, which launched in 1991 as the ''African Women's Championship
and was known in the mass media between 2015 and 2021 as the Africa/African Women/Women's Cup of Nations'', which currently qualifies 4 teams to the
FIFA Women's World Cup. CAF also organises qualification matches for "promising future female footballers" at both the
Under-20 and
Under-17 levels, launched in 2002 and 2008 respectively, both of which crowns no champions but instead qualifies 2 teams to compete at the
FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup and the
FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup respectively.
Club For African clubs, CAF runs the
CAF Men's and
Women's Champions League, the
CAF Confederation Cup, the
CAF Super Cup and the African Schools Football Championship for both males and females. First held in 1964 as the
African Cup of Champions Clubs (simply known sometimes as the
African Cup) and rebranded in 1997 as the CAF Champions League, this football club competition currently features the champions of top-division leagues of CAF member associations and the runners-up teams of the league classifications of member associations the top 12 ranked national associations as documented by the
CAF 5-year ranking system. A currently-former competition, the
African Cup Winners' Cup, commenced in 1975 for national cup winners of member associations and a third currently-former competition, the
CAF Cup, launched in 1992 for African teams who finished below the top 2 positions of the league classifications of member associations and haven't met any criteria for qualification to any CAF competition. CAF decided to merge these two competitions together to form the current second-tier CAF Confederation Cup in 2004, and it currently incorporates the participation of national cup winners from the Cup Winners' Cup, whiles maintaining the format of the participation of teams who finished 3rd in the top-division league classifications of the 12 highest-ranked member associations as documented by the CAF 5-Year Ranking system from the CAF Cup. It is also ranked below the CAF Champions League. The winners of the CAF Champions League play the winners of the African Cup Winners' Cup until 2004 and the CAF Confederation Cup thereafter in the
CAF Super Cup which was launched in 1993. The
Afro-Asian Club Championship was an annual football match jointly organised between CAF and the
Asian Football Confederation (AFC) between the winners of the CAF Champions League and the winners of the
AFC Champions League between 1987 and 1999. The CAF Women's Champions League was announced and approved on 30 June 2020, launched on 12 September that year and began contesting the following year, i.e. 2021. It features women's national league and cup winners nvolving the champions of CAF's sub-confederation qualification tournaments for women's club teams.
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