CAF Awards

CAF Awards
Current: 2022 CAF Awards
First awarded	2000
Website	http://www.cafonline.com

The CAF Awards is an awards evening held to honour the best African association football players. It is conferred by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).

History

The CAF Awards was first awarded in the year 2000. It is an award contested by the Confederation of African Football and awarded to the best African player in each category. The African Footballer of the Year award is the oldest CAF award, being awarded since 1992 that witnessed Abedi Pele winning the inaugural award.

Current awards

The awards include:

CAF Player of the Year

Main article: African Footballer of the Year

CAF Female Player of the Year

Main article: African Women's Footballer of the Year

CAF Youth Player of the Year

Year	Player (gender)	National team	Club
2023[1]	Lamine Camara	Senegal	Metz
2022	Pape Matar Sarr	Senegal	Tottenham Hotspur
2019[2]	Achraf Hakimi	Morocco	Borussia Dortmund
2018[3]	Achraf Hakimi	Morocco	Borussia Dortmund
2017[4]	Patson Daka	Zambia	FC Liefering
2016	Alex Iwobi	Nigeria	Arsenal
2015	Victor Osimhen	Nigeria	Ultimate Strikers Academy

CAF Youth Women's Player of the Year

Year	Player (gender)	National team	Club
2023[1]	Nesryne El Chad	Morocco	Lille OSC
2022	Evelyn Badu	Ghana	Avaldsnes IL
2014	Asisat Oshoala	Nigeria	Rivers Angels

African Inter-Club Player of the Year (Based in Africa)

Year	Player	National team	Club
2023[1]	Percy Tau	South Africa	Al Ahly
2022	Mohamed El Shenawy	Egypt	Al Ahly
2019[2]	Youcef Belaïli	Algeria	Espérance de Tunis
2016	Denis Onyango	Uganda	Mamelodi Sundowns
2015	Mbwana Samatta	Tanzania	TP Mazembe
2014	Firmin Ndombe Mubele	DR Congo	Vita Club
2013	Mohamed Aboutrika	Egypt	Al Ahly
2012	Mohamed Aboutrika	Egypt	Al Ahly
2011	Oussama Darragi	Tunisia	Espérance de Tunis
2010	Ahmed Hassan	Egypt	Al Ahly
2009	Trésor Mputu	DR Congo	TP Mazembe
2008	Mohamed Aboutrika	Egypt	Al Ahly
2007	Amine Chermiti	Tunisia	Étoile du Sahel
2006	Mohamed Aboutrika	Egypt	Al Ahly
2005	Mohamed Barakat	Egypt	Al Ahly

African Women's Inter-Club Player of the Year (Based in Africa)

Year	Player	National team	Club
2023[1]	Fatima Tagnaout	Morocco	AS FAR
2022	Evelyn Badu	Ghana	Hasaacas Ladies F.C.

CAF Goalkeeper of the Year

Year	Player	National team	Club
2023[1]	Yassine Bounou	Morocco	Al Hilal
2008	Essam El Hadary	Egypt	Al Ahly
2007	Essam El Hadary	Egypt	Al Ahly
2006	Essam El Hadary	Egypt	Al Ahly
2005	Tony Sylva	Senegal	Lille
2004	Ali Boumnijel	Tunisia	Rouen
2003	Carlos Kameni	Cameroon	Espanyol
2002	Tony Sylva	Senegal	Monaco
2001	Essam El Hadary	Egypt	Al Ahly

CAF Women Goalkeeper of the Year

Year	Player	National team	Club
2023[1]	Chiamaka Nnadozie	Nigeria	Paris FC

CAF Coach of the Year

Year	Coach	Team managed
2023[5]	Walid Regragui	Morocco
2022	Aliou Cissé	Senegal
2019[2]	Djamel Belmadi	Algeria
2018[3]	Hervé Renard	Morocco
2017[4]	Héctor Cúper	Egypt
2016	Pitso Mosimane	Mamelodi Sundowns
2015	Hervé Renard	Ivory Coast
2014	Kheïreddine Madoui	ES Sétif
2013	Stephen Keshi	Nigeria
2012	Hervé Renard	Zambia
2011	Harouna Doula	Niger
2010	Milovan Rajevac	Ghana
2009[6]	Sellas Tetteh	Ghana U20
2008	Hassan Shehata	Egypt
2007	Yemi Tella	Nigeria U17
2006	Manuel José	Al Ahly
2005	Stephen Keshi	Togo
2004	Okey Emordi	Enyimba
2003	Kadiri Ikhana	Enyimba
2002	Bruno Metsu	Senegal
2001	Bruno Metsu	Senegal
2000	Cecil Jones Attuquayefio	Hearts of Oak

CAF Women's Coach of the Year

Year	Coach	Team managed
2023[1]	Desiree Ellis	South Africa
2022	Desiree Ellis	South Africa
2019[2]	Desiree Ellis	South Africa
2018[3]	Desiree Ellis	South Africa

African Inter-Club Team of the Year

Year	Club	Nation
2023[1]	Al Ahly	Egypt
2022[7]	Wydad AC	Morocco
2017[4]	Wydad AC	Morocco
2016	Mamelodi Sundowns	South Africa
2015	TP Mazembe	DR Congo
2014	ES Sétif	Algeria
2013	Al Ahly	Egypt
2012	Al Ahly	Egypt
2011	Espérance de Tunis	Tunisia
2010	TP Mazembe	DR Congo
2009	TP Mazembe	DR Congo
2008	Al Ahly	Egypt
2007	Étoile du Sahel	Tunisia
2006	Al Ahly	Egypt
2005	Al Ahly	Egypt
2004	Enyimba	Nigeria
2003	Enyimba	Nigeria
2002	Zamalek	Egypt
2001	Kaizer Chiefs	South Africa

African Women's Inter-Club Team of the Year

Year	Club	Nation
2023[1]	Mamelodi Sundowns	South Africa
2022	Mamelodi Sundowns	South Africa

African National Team of the Year

The team of the year award was organized by France Football from 1980 to 2004, and by CAF from 2004 onwards.^[8]

Year National team 1980  Algeria 1981  Algeria 1982  Algeria 1983  Ghana 1984  Cameroon 1985  Morocco 1986  Morocco 1987  Cameroon 1988  Cameroon 1989  Cameroon

Year National team 1990  Cameroon 1991  Algeria 1992  Ivory Coast 1993  Nigeria 1994  Nigeria 1995  Tunisia 1996  South Africa 1997  Morocco 1998  Egypt 1999  Tunisia

Year National team 2000  Cameroon 2001  Senegal 2002  Senegal 2003  Cameroon 2004  Tunisia 2005  Tunisia 2006  Ghana 2007  Senegal 2008  Egypt 2009  Algeria

Year National team 2010  Ghana 2011  Botswana 2012  Zambia 2013  Nigeria 2014  Algeria 2015  Ivory Coast 2016  Uganda 2017[4]  Egypt 2018[3]  Mauritania 2019[2]  Algeria

Year National team 2022  Senegal 2023[1]  Morocco

Ranking by team

Team	First place	Second place	Third place
Cameroon	7 (1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 2000, 2003)	4 (1981, 1982, 1986, 2002)	1 (1993)
Algeria	7 (1980, 1981, 1982, 1991, 2009, 2014, 2019)	3 (1985, 1986, 2015)	3 (1987, 1989, 2010)
Morocco	4 (1985, 1986, 1997, 2023)	4 (1993, 1998, 2003, 2004)	1 (1980)
Tunisia	4 (1995, 1999, 2004, 2005)	2 (1996, 1997)	0
Senegal	4 (2001, 2002, 2007, 2022)	1 (2019)	1 (1985)
Egypt	3 (1998, 2008, 2017)	7 (1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1989, 2006, 2010)	2 (1990, 1991)
Nigeria	3 (1993, 1994, 2013)	4 (1980, 1991, 2001, 2014)	6 (1983, 1984, 1988, 1998, 2002, 2004)
Ghana	3 (1983, 2006, 2010)	1 (2005)	5 (1981, 1982, 1992, 2009, 2015)
Ivory Coast	2 (1992, 2015)	2 (2009, 2011)	3 (1994, 2006, 2012)
Zambia	1 (2012)	2 (1988, 1994)	2 (1996, 1997)
South Africa	1 (1996)	0	0
Botswana	1 (2011)	0	0
Uganda	1 (2016)	0	0
Mauritania	1 (2018)	0	0
Angola	0	1 (1995)	0
Mozambique	0	1 (1995)	0
Cape Verde	0	1 (2012)	0
Burkina Faso	0	1 (2013)	0
Ethiopia	0	0	1 (2013)
Mali	0	0	1 (2003)
Togo	0	0	1 (2005)
Niger	0	0	1 (2011)
Libya	0	0	1 (2014)

African Women's National Team of the Year

The team of the year award was organized by CAF since 2010.

Year National team 2023[1]  Nigeria 2022  South Africa 2019[2]  Cameroon 2018[3]  Nigeria 2017[4]  South Africa 2016  Nigeria 2015  Cameroon 2014  Nigeria 2013 No vote 2012  Equatorial Guinea 2011  Cameroon 2010  Nigeria

CAF Legends award

Year	Legend	Role	Country
2018	Mohamed Aboutrika	Player	Egypt
2017[4]	Ibrahim Sunday	Manager	Ghana
2016	Laurent Pokou Emilienne Mbango	Players	Ivory Coast  Cameroon
2015	Charles Gyamfi Samuel Mbappé Léppé	Manager Player	Ghana  Cameroon
2014	Oryx Douala Stade Malien	Clubs	Cameroon  Mali
2013	Bruno Metsu	Manager	France
2012	Rigobert Song Mahmoud El-Gohary	Player Manager	Cameroon  Egypt
2011	Mustapha Hadji Jay-Jay Okocha	Players	Morocco  Nigeria
2009	Jesus Stephen Keshi Jules Bocandé	Players	Angola  Nigeria  Senegal
2008	Christian Chukwu	Player	Nigeria
2005	Rabah Madjer	Player	Algeria
2004	Pierre Kalala Mukendi Mahmoud El Khatib George Weah	Players	DR Congo  Egypt  Liberia
2003	Roger Milla Salif Keïta Kalusha Bwalya	Players	Cameroon  Mali  Zambia

CAF Most Promising Talent of the Year

Year	Player	National team	Club
2016	Kelechi Iheanacho	Nigeria	Manchester City
2015	Etebo Oghenekaro	Nigeria	Warri Wolves
2014	Yacine Brahimi	Algeria	Porto
2013	Kelechi Iheanacho	Nigeria	Manchester City
2012	Mohamed Salah	Egypt	Basel
2011	Souleymane Coulibaly	Ivory Coast	Tottenham Hotspur
2010	Kwadwo Asamoah	Ghana	Udinese
2009	Dominic Adiyiah	Ghana	Milan
2008	Salomon Kalou	Ivory Coast	Chelsea
2007	Clifford Mulenga	Zambia	Pretoria University
2006	Taye Taiwo	Nigeria	Marseille
2005	Mikel John Obi	Nigeria	Chelsea
2004	Obafemi Martins	Nigeria	Internazionale
2003	Obafemi Martins	Nigeria	Internazionale
2002	Mido	Egypt	Ajax
2001	Mantorras	Angola	Benfica

African Goal of the Year

Year	Player	Country
2023	Kahraba	Egypt
2022	Pape Ousmane Sakho	Senegal
2019[2]	Riyad Mahrez	Algeria
2018[3]	Thembi Kgatlana	South Africa
2004	Benni McCarthy	South Africa
2003	Lesley Manyathela	South Africa
2002	Papa Bouba Diop	Senegal
2001	Zoubeir Baya	Tunisia

President of the Year

Year	President	Team
2019[2]	Moïse Katumbi	TP Mazembe
2018[3]	Fouzi Lekjaa	Morocco
2017[4]	Ahmed Yahya	Mauritania
2016	Manuel Lopes Nascimento	Guinea-Bissau
2015	Abdiqani Said Arab	Somalia

Federation of the Year

Year	Federation	Country
2019[2]	Egyptian Football Association	Egypt

CAF Team of the Year

Main article: CAF Team of the Year

CAF outstanding achievement award

• 2023: His Excellency Macky Sall (President of the Republic of Senegal)
• 2022: His Majesty King Mohammed VI of Morocco

Platinum Award

• 2019: Kodjovi Obilale (former Togolese goalkeeper)^[2]
• 2018: His Excellency Macky Sall (President of the Republic of Senegal)^[9]
• 2017: Nana Akufo-Addo (President of Ghana)^[4]
• 2017: George Weah (President-elect of Liberia and former World, Africa and European Player of the Year)^[4]
• 2016: Son Excellence Muhammadu Buhari (President of Nigeria)

Defunct awards

The following are no longer awarded.

African Champions League Best Player

Replaced by African Inter-Club Player of the Year (Based in Africa) since 2005.

Previous winners:

Year	Player	Club	Country
2004	Vincent Enyeama	Enyimba	Nigeria
2003	Dramane Traoré	Ismaily	Mali
2002	Hicham Aboucherouane	Raja Casablanca	Morocco
2001	Flávio	Petro de Luanda	Angola

CAF Referee of the Year

Year	Referee	Country
2016	Bakary Gassama	Gambia
2015	Bakary Gassama	Gambia
2014	Bakary Gassama	Gambia
2013	Djamel Haimoudi	Algeria
2012	Djamel Haimoudi	Algeria
2011	Noumandiez Doué	Ivory Coast

Editions

The 2020 and 2021 CAF awards did not take place due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.^[10]

The 2023 CAF awards took place in Marrakech, Morocco.^[11] In order to show solidarity, a friendly match between African Legends took place.^[12] On 24 October 2024, CAF announced that the 2024 CAF Awards ceremony will take place in Marrakech for the second year in a row.^[13][14]

Criticism

In 2023, Algerian footballer Riyad Mahrez was not chosen as a finalist for the award.^[15] Mahrez's absence was perceived as a snub by media and the Algerian football community.^[16][17] Algerian manager Abdelhak Benchikha, nominated for Best African Coach, said he would not attend the CAF awards ceremony in solidarity with Mahrez and Algerian club USM Alger.^[18] Walid Sadi, the president of the Algerian Football Federation, also said that he would not attend the ceremony as a show of support for Mahrez.^[19]

See also

• African Footballer of the Year
• FIFA World Player of the Year
• Ballon d'Or
• Asian Footballer of the Year
• Oceania Footballer of the Year
• Onze d'Or
• World Soccer (magazine)

References

General

• "GLO-CAF Awards". CAF. 28 November 2012. Retrieved 28 November 2012.
• "Arsenal's Adebayor wins Caf award". BBC Sport. 11 February 2009. Retrieved 11 February 2009.
• "Adebayor named Africa's best". FIFA. 11 February 2009. Archived from the original on February 12, 2009. Retrieved 11 February 2009.

Specific

1. "Osimhen, Oshoala named African Men's and Women's Player of the Year at the CAF Awards 2023". Confederation of African Football. 2023-12-11. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
2. "Mane, Oshoala named African Footballers of 2019 at CAF Awards". cafonline.com. Confederation of African Football. 7 January 2020. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
3. "Aiteo CAF Awards 2018: Winners". CAF. 8 January 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
4. "Here are all the winners of the 2017 CAF Awards". South African Football Federation. 6 January 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
5. "Regragui scoops CAF's Best Coach of the Year prize". CAF. 2023-11-12. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
6. Arinaitwe, Ostine (12 March 2010). "Tetteh receives Caf award". The New Times | Rwanda. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
7. "Morocco Football Awards: Wydad Casablanca Wins The Day & More Breaking News". 23 September 2022. Retrieved 2 November 2022.^{[permanent dead link]}
8. "African National Team of the Year". RSSSF. Rec. Sport Soccer Statistics Foundation. 6 July 2007.
9. "Salah retains African award to seal great day for Egypt". cafonline.com. Confederation of African Football. 8 January 2019. Archived from the original on 15 April 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
10. "Unusual silence from Caf leaves observers wondering whether 2021 awards gala will ever be held | Goal.com English Bahrain". www.goal.com. 2022-05-18. Retrieved 2023-10-31.
11. https://lematin.ma/sports/le-maroc-abrite-les-caf-awards-2024-a-marrakech-et-la-can-feminine-2026/247489
12. "African Legends honour Earthquake victims during friendly match in Marrakech". CAF. 2023-10-12. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
13. MASAITI, Amira EL (2024-10-24). "Football: Marrakech to host CAF Awards Ceremony". HESPRESS English - Morocco News. Retrieved 2024-11-04.
14. "#CAFAwards24 to be hosted in Marrakech, Morocco for a second successive year". #CAFAwards24 to be hosted in Marrakech, Morocco for a second successive year. Retrieved 2024-11-04.
15. "Riyad Mahrez non retenu pour le trophée du meilleur joueur de la CAF, une omission qui fait tache" [Riyad Mahrez not selected for the CAF Best Player Award, an omission that leaves a stain.]. www.goal.com (in French). 2023-12-07. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
16. "Ballon d'or africain: Hakimi parmi les trois finalistes mais une absence va faire parler" [African Ballon d'Or: Hakimi among the three finalists, but one absence will be talked about.]. RMC SPORT (in French). Retrieved 2023-12-11.
17. "Algérie : Mahrez absent du titre de meilleur joueur, la colère des Fennecs" [Algeria: Mahrez absent from the title of best player, the anger of the Desert Foxes.]. Onze Mondial (in French). 2023-12-07. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
18. "Nominé pour les CAF Awards, il surprend, "Même si j'avais été invité, je n'y serais pas allé"" [Nominated for the CAF Awards, he surprises, "Even if I had been invited, I wouldn't have gone."] (in French). 2023-12-11. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
19. "Algeria boycotts CAF Awards over 'unfair' withdrawal of Mahrez from final list". sportsbrief.com. Retrieved 2023-12-11.

External links

• CAF Online
• A book of an Italian publisher about African football