The 2023/24 season of the CAF African Schools Football Championship is officially underway, as CAF, through its Member Associations Division prepares to roll out the second edition of the ground-breaking youth football tournament as envisioned by CAF President, Dr Patrice Motsepe.
Building from the success of its inaugural season, this season has seen a spike in participation with more than 800,000 young African boys and girls from over 28,000 schools across 44 countries taking part in the second season of the African Schools Football Championship.
As in the previous edition, the competition is structured into three phases, which is National, Zonal and Continental and affords school-going boys and girls a unique opportunity of being exposed to international football.
In addition to its competitive nature on the field of player, The CAF African Schools Football Championship also affords learners off the field capacity building as part of developing future African leaders.
CAF led initiatives such as the Young Reporters Programme, Young Referee Programme as well as the CAF Safeguarding Programme are some of the unique features that run concurrently with the programme.
With the season already underway at national phase across the continent - CAF, working closely with it’s Zonal Unions is preparing to stage the Zonal Phase of the competition with Togo set to kick things off with the WAFU B edition between 20 – 26 November.
The WAFU B Zone will then be followed by UNIFFAC, COSAFA, CECAFA, UNAF and WAFU A to close off the Zonal Qualifiers ahead of the continental phase set to take place in April 2024.
African Schools Football Championship 2023 Zonal Qualifiers Dates:
