{"id":14635,"date":"2025-11-06T07:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/caf-to-expand-womens-africa-cup-of-nations-to-16\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:09","slug":"caf-to-expand-womens-africa-cup-of-nations-to-16","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/caf-to-expand-womens-africa-cup-of-nations-to-16\/","title":{"rendered":"CAF to expand Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations to 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The changes will start with the next edition to be staged in Morocco from March 17 to April 3, 2026. As the qualification phase for the 2026 edition has already been completed, the Executive Committee has approved the selection mechanism to determine the four additional Teams.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Based on the current\u00a0FIFA\u00a0Women&#8217;s World Rankings, the top four teams from those eliminated in the final qualifying round have been selected to complete the list of participants. The following teams will therefore join the finals of the\u00a0TotalEnergies\u00a0CAF\u00a0WAFCON\u00a0Morocco 2026: Cameroon, Cote\u00a0d&#8217;Ivoire, Mali and Egypt. \u00a0They are in addition to the 12 nations already qualified for the tournament: Morocco, Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi, Algeria, Nigeria, Ghana,\u00a0Burkina\u00a0Faso, Kenya, Cape Verde, South Africa and Senegal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14636,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-14635","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The Executive Committee of the\u00a0Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration\u00a0Africaine\u00a0de Football\u00a0(CAF)\u00a0has approved the expansion of the\u00a0TotalEnergies\u00a0CAF\u00a0Women's Africa Cup of Nations\u00a0(WAFCON)\u00a0from 12 to 16 teams","published_date":"2025-11-06 00:00:00","news_description":"The Executive Committee of the\u00a0Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration\u00a0Africaine\u00a0de Football\u00a0(CAF)\u00a0has approved the expansion of the\u00a0TotalEnergies\u00a0CAF\u00a0Women's Africa Cup of Nations\u00a0(WAFCON)\u00a0from 12 to 16 teams","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19212,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14635\/revisions\/19212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}