African Stars are Namibia League Champions The mail has been sent successfully 11 May 2015 10:30 African Stars have been crowned winners of the 2014/2015 Namibia Premier League, their first title in four years. The ‘Reds’ as the capital based are nicknamed wrapped up the title on the penultimate day of the season, taming relegation-bound Rebels 4-0 on Sunday (3 May) before signing off in grand style with 3-1 win over Tura Magic in the final game of the season last Sunday (10 May 2015). African Stars finished on 68 points, 10-points more than rivals Black Africa, which…
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10 May 2015 11:42 Kenya’s no-show at the Olympic Games saw yet another setback after crashing out of the qualifiers for the African U-23 Championship Senegal 2015, the continental qualifiers for the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games. The Harambee Stars beat Botswana 4-1 in their second leg first round clash in Nairobi on Saturday, but it was not enough to see them through. The Zebras advanced on the away goal rule after a 4-4 tie on aggregate. It means that the East African nation will have to wait for another four years to break their Olympics hoodoo.…
07 May 2015 02:19 Rwanda coach Jonathan McKinstry has named 18-man team which will face Somalia in the return leg of the first round of the Africa U-23 Championship Senegal 2015 qualifier on Sunday at Gouled Stadoium in Djibouti. Speaking to cafonline.com, McKinstry said, “We have had a good week of training and I believe the boys are ready for the task ahead. We still needed to correct a few things from the first leg and I am glad we have managed to do that. “We are confident going into the second and we believe a draw would…
06 May 2015 01:42 Cairo, 6 May 2015: The Confederation of African Football, CAF, and Qatar Football association have signed a five-year Cooperation Agreement for the development of football between the two organisations. CAF President Issa Hayatou and QFA President Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa bin Ahmed Al -Thani signed the agreement on Wednesday 6th of May at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. The cooperation will be focusing on exchanging expertise and experience in various areas such as administration, coaching, sports medicine, refereeing, youth football and women football, infrastructure development, marketing and communications. “I am looking forwards to a…
Djibouti Telecom claim league title The mail has been sent successfully 06 May 2015 10:44 Djibouti Telecom Football Club has been crowned the winners of the 2014/2015 premier division for the third time on the trot. They were presented with the medal and trophy at a colourful ceremony held at the National Technical Centre on Tuesday (5 May 2015). Djibouti Telecom wrapped up the title in grand sty with a 9-0 drubbing of AS Jeunes Jago in the final game of the season last Monday. They finished on 45 points, six-points richer than second-placed AS Port in the…
05 May 2015 09:30 Live report: CAF Interclubs draw The draw for the mini-league stage of the 2015 CAF Champions League and the 1/8 th round playoff of the CAF Confederation Cup was held on Tuesday, 5 May 2015 at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. The draws were conducted by the CAF General Secretary, Hicham El Amrani assisted by 1st Vice President, Suketu Patel, 2nd Vice President Almamy Kabele Camara and CAF Executive Committee member, Mohamed Raouaraoua. Group phase of 2015 Orange CAF Champions League Group A Smouha (Egypt) Moghreb Tetouan (Morocco) TP Mazembe (DR Congo) El…
04 May 2015 05:31 The Organising Committee for the CAF Interclub competition at its meeting on Monday, 4 May 2015 in Cairo approved the procedure for the draw of the 2nd 1/8th round of the CAF Confederation Cup and will take place in two phases. The first phase will see pitting the winners of the 1/8th round of the Orange CAF Confederation Cup against the losers of the 1/8th round of the CAF Champions League. The 16 clubs have been divided into four pots based on their rankings. Pot A contains the top-ranked teams by CAF from the…
04 May 2015 10:24 For the first time since 2010, Esperance will be missing from the group phase of the CAF Champions League. The 2011 winners beat Sudanese side, El Merreikh 2-1 in their second leg clash on Sunday in Rades, but it was the visitors who progressed to the mini-league stage for the first time since 2009 on the way goal ruler after a 2-2 tie on aggregate. It was the Omdurman-based club, which broke the deadlock after only 14 minutes through Ahmed Abdallah to stun the host crowd. Esperance were dealt a blow as striker…
03 May 2015 01:26 Cairo, 3 May 2015. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) and the Qatari Football Association (QFA) will sign a cooperation agreement on Wednesday 6 May, 2015. The signing ceremony is scheduled for 15:30hours local time, 13:30GMT, at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. This agreement will run for an initial period of five years and can be renewed. It will regulate the two organizations’ collaboration and cooperation, whose focus will include exchanges of experiences and capacity building of their respective affiliates in areas as varied as: sports medicine, refereeing, administration, development, training, management, infrastructure, women’s football…
Five-star Ghana complete Liberia double The mail has been sent successfully 03 May 2015 11:01 Ghana’s Black Meteors beat Liberia 5-1 on Saturday to complete a double and set up a date with Congo at the second round of the qualifiers of the African U-23 Championship Senegal 2015. The Meteors were simply too much for their Liberian counterparts, who adopted the northern Ghanaian city of Tamale, as their home grounds following a home ban due to the Ebola virus outbreak. With a 2-0 cushion from the first leg at the same venue seven days ago, the Ghanaians confirmed…