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The Confédération Africaine de Football (English: African Football Confederation), (Arabic: الإتحاد الأفريقي لكرة القدم) is the administrative and controlling body for African football. It is almost always referred to by its acronym CAF (usually pronounced /kæf/). CAF represents the national football associations of Africa, runs continental national and club competitions, and controls the prize money, regulations and media rights to those competitions. CAF is one of the biggest of six continental confederations of FIFA. Although it is just three years younger than the UEFA, CAF still has a long way to go in order to improve the quality of the national and local competitions, and therefore, overcome a lot of naturally occurring obstacles, or other burdens such as; limited resources and either complete or partial lack of infrastructures, besides the high cost of transportation through different sides of the continent. Nevertheless, Africa produced skilled players and teams that match, and sometimes exceed Europeans, but, these isolated cases should not be self-deceptive into believing that Africa have achieved European standards in all the domains of football. CAF has been given 5 slots out of the 32 available since the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France and increased to 6 in 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. CAF was founded on 8 February 1957 in Khartoum, Sudan by the Egyptian, Ethiopian, South African and Sudanese FAs, following former discussions between the Egyptian, South African and Sudanese FAs earlier in 7 June 1956 in Avenida Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal. The headquarters were few months in Khartoum until a fire outbreak in the offices of the Sudanese Football Association when the organization moved to Cairo. Youssef Mohammad was the first General Secretary and Abdel Aziz Abdallah Salem the president. Its administrative center since 2002 is in 6th of October City, Cairo. It was initially made up of 4 national associations. Currently there are 55 associations, 53 full members beside Réunion Island and Zanzibar as associates. (see the bottom of this page or List of CAF national football teams). The current CAF President is Issa Hayatou. [edit] HistoryMain article: History of CAF [edit] CAF PresidentMain article: List of presidents of CAF
[edit] General Secretaries
[edit] Honorary Presidents
[edit] Honorary Members
[edit] General Assembly
[edit] Competitions[edit] ContinentalThe main competition for men's national teams is the African Cup of Nations, started in 1957. In 2009, CAF will be organising another competition for men's national teams, the African Nations Championship composed exclusively of national players playing in the national championship. CAF also runs national competitions at Under-21 and Under-17 levels. For women's national teams, CAF operates the CAF Women's Championship for senior national sides and the CAF Women's Under-20 Championship at under-20 level, since 2008 there is a CAF Women's Under-17 Championship for under-17 sides. CAF also organizes the UEFA-CAF Meridian Cup with UEFA for youth teams. In futsal there is the African Futsal Championship. In Beach soccer there is the CAF Beach Soccer Championship. Also, CAF is responsible for organisation of the football events during the Pan African Games. [edit] ClubCAF also runs the two main club competitions in Africa: the CAF Champions League was first held in 1964, and was known as the African Cup of Champions Clubs (or just African Cup) until 1997; and the CAF Confederation Cup, for national cup winners and high-placed league teams, was launched by CAF in 2004 as a successor to the African Cup Winners' Cup (begun in 1975). A third competition, the CAF Cup, started in 1992 and was absorbed into the CAF Confederation Cup in 2004[1]. The CAF Super Cup, which pits the winners of the Champions League against the winners of the CAF Confederation Cup (previously the winners of the Cup Winners' Cup), came into being in 1992. [edit] CAF Members[edit] Regional Federations
[edit] CAF Regional Zones[edit] CAF Zone 1 - Northern Zone[edit] CAF Zone 2 - Western Zone A[edit] CAF Zone 3 - Western Zone B[edit] CAF Zone 4 - Central Zone[edit] CAF Zone 5 - Central Eastern Zone[edit] CAF Zone 6 - Southern Zone[edit] World Cup Participation and Results
[edit] Men's World Cup FinalsSee also: 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF) The following CAF members have competed in the following FIFA World Cups. Teams are sorted by number of appearances.
1 Made 1 appearance as [edit] Womens' World Cup FinalsThe following CAF members have competed in the following FIFA Women's World Cups. Teams are sorted by number of appearances.
[edit] Rankings[edit] Top 10 National TeamsRankings are calculated by FIFA based on matches played over the last four years.[2]
[edit] Top 10 Women's National TeamsRankings are calculated by FIFA based on matches played over the last four years.[3]
[edit] Top 20 African ClubsRankings are calculated by the IFFHS based on matches played over the last year till the date of release.[4]
[edit] CAF overall ranking of African ClubsRankings are calculated by the CAF based on points gathered by African teams throughout their participation in international club tournaments organized by either the FIFA or the CAF since the establishment of the first African Cup of Champions Clubs in 1964.[5]
[edit] CAF Best Footballers Of The CenturyThe voting to select the best of the century refers to three categories: male player[6], goalkeeper[7] and female player[8], and is obtained from five different steps. The resulting best players and goalkeepers were honored during the "World Football Gala 1999". Voting process as explained by the IFFHS. [edit] CAF Best Player of the Century
[edit] CAF Best Goalkeeper Of The Century
[edit] CAF Best Women's Footballer Of The Century
[edit] CAF Golden Jubille Best Player AwardThe integral list of the 30 best African players in the last 50 years or the period 1957 - 2007[9].
[edit] CAF's AnthemIn September 18, 2007 the CAF launched a competition for all African composers to create its Anthem[10]. The CAF anthem is a musical composition, without lyrics, which and reflect the cultural patrimony and African music. The duration of the anthem is 74 seconds. The chosen anthem was first published to the site in January 16, 2008. The usage of the anthem and yet it's composer are still unknown. [edit] References
[edit] See also[edit] About CAF[edit] CAF competitions[edit] For Nations[edit] For clubs[edit] CAF Ranking[edit] List[edit] Related articles[edit] External links
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