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The Confédération African Football (CAF) has announced Morocco as host of the 2024 edition of the CAF Women’s Champions League Finals.
The CAF Women’s Champions League Morocco 2024 will be played between November 9 and 23, 2024.
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Morocco hosted the 2022 edition of the CAF Women’s Champions League – the premium women’s club football competition in Africa.
Eight (8) clubs will contest for the top prize with the winners getting USD 400,000 in prize money while runners-up will walk away with USD 250,000.
Mamelodi Sundowns are the current holders having won the competition twice in three years.
Morocco’s ASFAR is the other team that won the competition back in 2022 when they defeated Mamelodi Sundowns.
Since its 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 followed its successful hosting of the TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations 2022 which was very successful.
The Nations League match between France and Israel, on November 14, will be played at the Stade de France “under the usual conditions” and “will of course be open to the public”, the Paris police announced on Tuesday.
Israel has been at war with Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas since the latter staged the deadliest-ever attack on Israel on October 7 last year.
Since then, Israel’s national team have played all their home games in Hungary. Their first away game in the Nations League, against Belgium, was also moved to Hungary and played behind closed doors in Debrecen after Brussels announced that it was “impossible to organise this very high-risk match”.
The Belgian football federation (RBFA) said it could not find a domestic alternative “given that in Belgium, no local administration deemed it possible to organise the Red Devils’ home match against Israel”.
Italy, however, decided it could host Monday’s Nations League match against Israel in the northern city of Udine with fans in attendance
