Confederation of African Football

The Confederation of African Football and the Confederation of African Football ( CAF abbreviated ) is the African Football Association. She is a Regionalkonföderation of the football organization FIFA.

The organization was founded on 8 February 1957. The headquarters is located in 6th of October City near Cairo, Egypt.

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6.1 Men
6.2 Women

History of establishment

In the course of formation of confederations mid-1950s - in 1954, the AFC Asia, Europe 1956, the UEFA; only the South American CONMEBOL has been around since 1916 - the desire evolved in Africa after an organizational summary to give the local football internationally more weight. Was this problem that there were only five sovereign African countries (Egypt, Ethiopia, Liberia, Libya, and the Republic of South Africa ) and therefore only a few recognized by the European- dominated South American FIFA national football associations in this period.

Still on the FIFA Congress in Berne in 1954 expressed the Argentine delegates, a prerequisite for the formation of confederations is "the [ in Africa and Asia ] not yet given performance sporting and organizational conditions ". After all, the Egyptians Abdel Aziz Abdallah Salem was elected at this meeting was the first African in the FIFA Executive Committee. With the onset of decolonization of the " Dark Continent " (1956, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco, Ghana in 1957 and 1958, Guinea became independent ), the number of national associations grew.

Nevertheless, the establishment of the CAF still went ahead considerable wrangling with FIFA. So called 1955, the Secretary-General of the World Federation, Kurt Gassmann, intake of regular intra-African and intercontinental international matches as a prerequisite in order to " get used to the FIFA rules and practices and player training, quality of referees, technical level as well as the medical and social protection the footballer lift ". On the edge of the 1956 FIFA Congress in Lisbon, however, delegates reached agreement from Egypt, Ethiopia, South Africa and Sudan to the formation of a continental union. Although the CAF stated on their letterheads early 1956 as the founding year is considered the official date for February 8, 1957, when the statute was adopted on the edge of the CAF Africa Cup for the first teams in Khartoum. To the President delegates elected Abdallah Salem, which a year later by his countryman Abdel Aziz Mostafa replaced. By 1959, only Ghana occurred in addition to the CAF, while the application for the not yet independent Algeria in 1958 was rejected (see here). Between 1960 - in this so-called " African Year " obtained no fewer than 17 countries their independence - and in 1963 came the Ivory Coast, Guinea, Cameroon, Congo - Kinshasa, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia and Uganda to do so. From 1964 to 1969 Algeria, Dahomey, Gabon, Gambia, Kenya, Congo - Brazzaville, Lesotho, Libya, Malawi, Mauritania, Niger, Upper Volta, Northern Rhodesia / Zambia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tanzania, Togo and the Central African Republic CAF occurred in. A continental competition for club teams, the African Cup of Champion Clubs, the CAF organized for the first time in 1965.

President

Abdel Aziz Abdallah Salem (Egypt, 1957-1958 )
Abdel Aziz Mostafa (Egypt, 1958-1968 )
Abdel Halim Mohamed (Sudan, 1968-1972 )
Ydnekachew Tessema (Ethiopia, 1972-1987 )
Abdel Halim Mohamed (Sudan, 1987-1988)
Issa Hayatou (Cameroon, 1988 )

Secretaries General

Youssef Mohamed (Egypt, 1957-1958 )
Mustafa Kamel Mansour (Egypt, 1958-1961 )
Mourad Fahmy (Egypt, 1961-1982 )
Mustapha Fahmy (Egypt, 1982-2010 )
Hicham El Amrani (Morocco, since 2010)

Member Associations

The CAF today belong to 56 regional associations, which are divided into five different regional zones for the purpose of qualifications for national team competitions.

* Even the Union of Arab Football Associations members. ** No member of FIFA, however, associate member of the CAF and COSAFA. *** No member of FIFA, however, a full member of the CAF. **** Egypt has suspended his membership on 19 November 2009.

Competitions

The CAF is the host of numerous events where the national teams or club teams of its member organizations to participate. In addition, the CAF organizes the qualifying rounds of the Africa Zone for the football World Cup and the Olympic football tournament. The competitions are as follows:

Competitions for national teams

Africa Cup of Nations - Africa Cup of men, is held every two years on a regular basis since 1957
African Championship of Nations - football tournament of the men is discharged from 2009 every 2 years
African Youth Championship ( also African U-20 Championship) - U-20 African Cup of men, is held every two years on a regular basis since 1979 and serves as a qualifier for the Junior World Cup
African U -17 Championship ( also The Under 17 Cup) - U-17 African Cup of men, is held every two years on a regular basis since 1995 and serves as a qualifier for the U-17 World Cup
African Futsal Championship - Futsal Championship Africa
CAF Beach Soccer Championship - Beach Soccer Championship Africa
Football tournament for national teams of Africa Games
Meridian Cup for African and European Under-17 teams, co-aligned with the continental European soccer body UEFA
Afro-Asian Cup of African and Asian teams, hosted jointly with the Asian Continental Football Association AFC, irregularly pitted (see below Afro-Asian Club Championship )

Women

African Women Championship - African Cup of women, held every two years on a regular basis since 1998
African U -20 Women Championship - U-20 African Cup of women, held every two years on a regular basis since 2004 and serves as a qualifier for the U-20 Women's World Cup
African U -17 Women Championship - U-17 African Cup of women, held every two years on a regular basis since 2004 and serves as a qualifier for the U-17 Women's World Cup
Football tournament for national teams of Africa Games

Competitions for club teams

CAF Champions League is discharged since 1965, was named to 1996 African Cup of Champion Clubs (African Cup of Champions )
Discharged CAF Confederation Cup, starting in 2004,
CAF Super Cup will be held regularly since 1992

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African Cup Winners 'Cup ( African Cup Winners' Cup ) was held regularly from 1975 to 2003, then discontinued in favor of the Confederation Cup
CAF Cup, was held regularly from 1992 to 2003, then discontinued in favor of the Confederation Cup
Afro-Asian Club Championship, competition for African and Asian club teams, jointly organized with the Asian Continental Football Association AFC, played since 1986. Has been since 2000 exposed by CAF, because the AFC for hosting the football World Cup in 2006 voted in Germany and not in South Africa.

World Cup participants from the African continent

World Cup 1930: None
Football World Cup 1934: Egypt
World Cup 1938: None
World Cup 1950: None
World Cup 1954: None
World Cup 1958: None
Football World Cup 1962: None
Football World Cup 1966: None
World Cup 1970: Morocco
World Cup 1974: Zaire
World Cup 1978: Tunisia
World Cup 1982: Algeria, Cameroon
Football World Cup 1986: Algeria, Morocco
World Cup 1990: Egypt, Cameroon
World Cup 1994: Cameroon, Morocco, Nigeria
World Cup 1998: Cameroon, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia
World Cup 2002: Cameroon, Senegal, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia
World Cup 2006: Angola, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Tunisia
World Cup 2010: Algeria, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria, South Africa ( the first African host )
World Cup 2014: Algeria, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria

Women

Soccer Women's World Cup 1991: Nigeria
Soccer Women's World Cup 1995: Nigeria
Soccer Women's World Cup 1999: Ghana, Nigeria
Soccer Women's World Cup 2003: Ghana, Nigeria
Soccer Women's World Cup 2007: Ghana, Nigeria
Soccer Women's World Cup 2011: Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria

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