Confederation of African Football
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| Formation | 1957 |
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| Type | Sports organization |
| Headquarters | Cairo, Egypt |
| Membership | 55 member associations |
| Official languages | French, English and Arabic |
| Secretary General | Moustafa Fahmy |
| President | Issa Hayatou |
| Website | http://www.cafonline.com/ |
The Confédération Africaine de Football (English: African Football Confederation), (Arabic: الاتحاد الإفريقي 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 it just three years younger than the UEFA, CAF still have a long way to go in order to improve the quality of the national and local competitions, and therefore, overcome a lot of either naturally occurring obstacles, or burdens inherited from the old age of colon colonialism 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 08 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 07 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] History
[edit] CAF President
- Abdel Aziz Abdallah Salem (Egypt) 1957-1958
- Gen. Abdel Aziz Mostafa (Egypt) 1958-1968
- Dr. Abdel Halim Mohamed (Sudan) 1968-1972
- Ydnekatchew Tessema (Ethiopia) 1972-1987
- Dr. Abdel Halim Mohamed (Sudan) 1987-1988
- Issa Hayatou (Cameroon) 1988- Present
[edit] General Secretaries
- Youssef Mohamed (Egypt) 1957-1958
- Mustafa Kamel Mansour (Egypt) 1958-1961
- Mourad Fahmy (Egypt) 1961-1982
- Mustapha Fahmy (Egypt) 1982- present
[edit] Honorary Presidents
- Gen. Abdel Aziz Mostafa (Egypt) +
- Ydnekatchew Tessema (Ethiopia) +
- Dr. Abdel Halim Mohamed (Sudan)
[edit] Honorary Members
- Mourad Fahmy (Egypt) +
- Ram Ruhee (Mauritius)
- Tom Mtine (Zambia)
- Anani Matthia (Togo)
- Rito Alcantara (Senegal) +
- Saidi El Maamry (Tanzania)
- Nfamara Camara (Guinea)
[edit] General Assembly
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- CAF General Assembly meetings
- 1 st Ordinary General Assembly in Lisbon , 7-8 June 1956
- 2 nd Ordinary General Assembly in Khartoum , 8 February 1957
- 3 rd Ordinary General Assembly in Stockholm , June 1958
- 4 th Ordinary General Assembly in Cairo , 27 May 1959
- 1 st Extraordinary General Assembly in Rome , 21 August 1960
- 2 nd Extraordinary General Assembly in Cairo , 16-17 February 1961
- 5 th Ordinary General Assembly in Addis Ababa , 16-17 January 1962
- 3 rd Extraordinary General Assembly in Cairo , 23-24 January 1963
- 6 th Ordinary General Assembly in Accra , 14-15 November 1963
- 4 th Extraordinary General Assembly in Tokyo , 7 October 1964
- 7 th Ordinary General Assembly in Tunis , 11 November 1965
- 5 th Extraordinary General Assembly in London , 11 July 1966
- 8 th Ordinary General Assembly in Addis Ababa , 10 January 1968
- 9 th Ordinary General Assembly in Khartoum , 5 February 1970
- 6 th Extraordinary General Assembly in Mexico , 18 June 1970
- 10 th Ordinary General Assembly in Yaounde , 21-22 February, 3 March 1972
- 11 th Ordinary General Assembly in Cairo , 26 February 1974
- 12 th Ordinary General Assembly in Addis Ababa , 26 February 1976
- 13 th Ordinary General Assembly in Accra , 2 march 1978
- 14 th Ordinary General Assembly in Lagos , 6 march 1980
- 15 th Ordinary General Assembly in Tripoli , 3-4 March 1982
- 16 th Ordinary General Assembly in Abidjan , 1 st March 1984
- 17 th Ordinary General Assembly in Cairo , 5 March 1986
- 18 th Ordinary General Assembly in Casablanca , 10 March 1988
- 19 th Ordinary General Assembly in Algiers , 29 February 1990
- 20 th Ordinary General Assembly in Dakar , 10 January 1992
- 21 st Ordinary General Assembly in Tunis , 23 March 1994
- 22 nd Ordinary General Assembly in Johannesburg , 11 January 1996
- 23 rd Ordinary General Assembly in Ouagadougou , 5 February 1998
- 24 th Ordinary General Assembly in Accra , 19 January 2000
- 25 th Ordinary General Assembly in Tunis , January 2004
- 7 th Extraordinary General Assembly in Paris , 19 May 2004
- 26 th Ordinary General Assembly in Marrakech, 11 September 2005
- 27 th Ordinary General Assembly in Cairo, 18 January 2006
- 28 th ordinary General Assembly in Khartoum, 10 February 2007
- 29 th ordinary General Assembly in Accra, 17-18 January 2008
[edit] Competitions
[edit] Continental
The 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 responsibe for organisation of the football events during the Pan African Games.
[edit] Club
CAF 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] Non-regional Members
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[edit] Council for East and Central Africa Football Association (CECAFA)
[edit] Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA)
[edit] Union des Fédérations du Football de l' Afrique Centrale (UNIFAC)
[edit] Union du Football de l' Ouest Afrique (UFOA)
[edit] Union of North African Federations (UNAF)
1: CAF associate member, but non-FIFA member.
[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
- See 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.
- Legend
- QF – Quarterfinals (1934–1938, 1954–1970, and since 1986: knockout round of 8; 1974–1978, second group stage, final 8)
- R2 – Round 2 (1982: second group stage, final 12; since 1986: knockout round of 16)
- R1 – Round 1
- HC - Hosting country
| Team |  1930 |
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 1938 |
 1950 |
 1954 |
 1958 |
 1962 |
 1966 |
 1970 |
 1974 |
 1978 |
 1982 |
1986 |
 1990 |
 1994 |
1998 |
  2002 |
2006 |
 2010 |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Cameroon | R1 | QF | R1 | R1 | R1 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
 Morocco | R1 | R2 | R1 | R1 | 4 | |||||||||||||||
 Tunisia | R1 | R1 | R1 | R1 | 4 | |||||||||||||||
 Nigeria | R2 | R2 | R1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| South Africa | R1 | R1 | HC | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
 Algeria | R1 | R1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
 Egypt | R1 | R1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
 Angola | R1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
 Congo DR1 | R1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
 Côte d'Ivoire | R1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
 Ghana | R2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
 Senegal | QF | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
 Togo | R1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 32 |
1 Made 1 appearance as 
Zaire in 1974.
[edit] Rankings
[edit] Top 10 National Teams
Rankings are calculated by FIFA based on matches played over the last four years.[2]
| CAF | FIFA | Country | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 | Cameroon | 989 |
| 2 | 16 | Egypt | 894 |
| 3 | 19 | Nigeria | 876 |
| 4 | 25 | Ghana | 815 |
| 5 | 29 | Côte d'Ivoire | 771 |
| 6 | 39 |  Guinea | 701 |
| 7 | 41 | Morocco | 649 |
| 8 | 45 |  Mali | 615 |
| 9 | 46 | Tunisia | 605 |
| 10 | 50 | Senegal | 587 |
Last updated December 17, 2008
[edit] Top 10 Women's National Teams
Rankings are calculated by FIFA based on matches played over the last four years.[3]
| CAF | FIFA | Country | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 | Nigeria | 1728 |
| 2 | 42 | Ghana | 1535 |
| 3 | 66 | Morocco | 1359 |
| 4 | 67 | South Africa | 1355 |
| 5 | 69 | Algeria | 1344 |
| 6 | 73 | Côte d'Ivoire | 1334 |
| 7 | 75 | Tunisia | 1317 |
| 8 | 77 | Mali | 1310 |
| 9 | 79 | Cameroon | 1281 |
| 10 | 80 | Senegal | 1277 |
Last updated September 05, 2008
[edit] Top 20 African Clubs
Rankings are calculated by the