The 2024 edition of the CAF Women’s Champions League Finals will be played in Morocco.
The Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF) announced that the finals will be played between November 9 to 23, 2024.
Recall that Morocco hosted the 2022 edition of the CAF Women’s Champions League – the premium women’s club football competition in Africa.
According to CAF, eight (8) Clubs will contest the top prize. Winners will get $400,000 in prize money with runners-up walking away with $250,000.
Prompt News reports that Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa are the are the current champions. They have also won the competition twice in three years.
Morocco’s ASFAR is the other team that has won the Competition – back in 2022 when they defeated Mamelodi Sundowns.
Since it’s inception, the CAF Women’s Champions League played a key role in shaping women’s football in Africa.
Morocco’s hosting of the CAF Women’s Champions League follows the nation’s successful hosting of the TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations 2022 which also enjoyed unparallelled success.
Six Zonal tournaments took place to qualify 6 teams in addition to the host and the holder of 2023 title to the FT of CAF WCL 2024.
The following teams are qualified:
CAF Women’s Champions League Qualified Clubs:
- Holders: Mamelodi Sundowns (South Africa)
- Host : ASFAR (Morocco)
- WAFU A : Aigles de la Medina (Senegal)
- WAFU B : EDO Queens (Nigeria)
- COSAFA : University of Western Cape (South Africa)
- UNAF : Tutankhamun (Egypt)
- CECAFA: CBE FC (Ethiopia)
- UNIFFAC: TP Mazembe (DR Congo)
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