{"id":194935,"date":"2026-02-14T11:18:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/caf-president-motsepe-insists-morocco-will-host-wafcon-2026"},"modified":"2026-02-14T12:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:23:17","slug":"caf-president-motsepe-insists-morocco-will-host-wafcon-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/caf-president-motsepe-insists-morocco-will-host-wafcon-2026","title":{"rendered":"CAF President Motsepe insists Morocco will host WAFCON 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Confederation of African Football, CAF, has confirmed Morocco as host of the 2026 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>There were reports that Morocco will pull out from hosting the competition with South Africa on standby to step in.<\/p>\n<p>CAF\u2019s President, Patrice Motsepe, however, poured cold waters on the rumours during his interaction with the media in Dar es Salam, Tanzania on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Motsepe also confirmed that the date for the WAFCON 2026 finals remain unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco also hosted the last two editions of the WAFCON.<\/p>\n<p>The competition will run from 17 March to 3 April, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>It will also serve as the qualifier for the 2027 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The four semi-finalists will qualify for Brazil 2027.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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CAF\u2019s President, Patrice Motsepe, however, poured cold waters on the rumours during his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":194934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-194935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CAF President Motsepe insists Morocco will host WAFCON 2026 - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Confederation of African Football, CAF, has confirmed Morocco as host of the 2026 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations. 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