CAF

The Confederation of African Football or CAF is the administrative and controlling body for African association football. 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 the biggest of the six continental confederations of FIFA. Since the expansion of the number of teams at the World Cup finals to 32, CAF has been allocated five places, though this was expanded to six for the 2010 tournament in South Africa, to include the hosts.

The main competition for men’s national teams Africa Cup of Nations. 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-20 and Under-17 levels. For women’s national teams, CAF operates the Africa Women Cup of Nations for senior national sides and the African U-20 Women’s World Cup qualification at under-20 level; there is an African U-17 Cup of Nations for Women for under-17 sides.

CAF also runs the two main club competitions in Africa: the CAF Champions League and the CAF Confederation Cup, for national cup winners and high-placed league teams.

The CAF Super Cup pits the winners of the Champions League against the winners of the CAF Confederation Cup.