The 2026 CAF Awards ceremony has been rescheduled for December 2.
In a statement on Tuesday, the African football governing
body announced that the event has been moved forward by five days.
CAF gave no reason for the change, but the Wole Soyinka
Centre for Culture and Creative Arts, formerly the National Art Theatre, in
Lagos, remains the venue for the ceremony.
The award gala will begin by 7 pm Nigerian time, and the
voting process runs till November 20.
In October, CAF had announced that the award event would be
held on December 7 — two weeks after the confederation’s forthcoming Ordinary
General Assembly in Abuja.
No Super Falcons player was nominated for the women’s player
of the year prize, for the first time since the award’s inception in 2001.
Similarly, no Super Eagles player made the men’s player of
the year shortlist for the first time since 2015.
However, Janet Akekoromowei and Flamingos’s Oluwakemi
Adegbuyi will be up for the best young talent prize. Edo Queens’ Chriatiana
Uzoma is also named in the running for the best goalkeeper award.
Nigeria last hosted the award gala on January 6, 2017, when
Algeria’s Riyad Mahrez won the men’s best player award, and Asisat Oshoala won
the women’s prize.
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