Subsequent January’s Africa Cup of Nations finals in Cameroon have been postponed by one particular calendar year and will now take location in 2022, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) made a decision on Tuesday.
The COVID-19 well being disaster has suspended football across most of the continent due to the fact March and left very little time to finish the qualification levels of competition, explained CAF president Ahmad Ahmad at a information meeting.
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The Cup of Nations were being because of to be held from Jan. 9-Feb. 6 upcoming calendar year but will now be scheduled for January 2022.
“This choice was taken thanks to the uncertainties about the coronavirus health situation and especially since of the scheduling issues due to the fact four rounds of qualifiers would need to have to be fitted into the October and November home windows for international matches,” stated Ahmad.
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The Africa Nations Championship, which is the match for quasi-national groups designed up of domestically-centered players only, will now be performed in January in the course of the period of time initially planned for the Cup of Nations obtaining been postponed from April this 12 months.
Cameroon will also be requested to stage the semifinals and closing of this year’s African Champions League, CAF’s executive committee determined at a meeting.
There will be a single semifinal stage and then the last, very likely in September, reported the CAF president.
The exact process will be used for the African Confederation Cup, suspended right before the semifinal phase. Its very last 3 online games will be staged in Morocco.
“But we have to see what occurs with the pandemic and what the condition will be. We have produced a choice nowadays but this could all modify tomorrow,” included Ahmad.
CAF has made a decision to scrap this year’s African Women’s Championship. No new host has been discovered due to the fact Congo withdrew last year.
Having said that, CAF reported it would launch a Women’s Champions League in 2021.
African football’s governing human body reported it experienced allocated an additional $16.2-million to aid member associations strike by the COVID-19 pandemic. Every region will be supplied an excess $300,000.
