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Mali and Tunisia sealed qualification for the Africa Cup of Nations finals on Tuesday, joining holders Algeria and 2019 runners-up Senegal who had booked their places over the last two days. Mali...

Manchester City winger Riyad Mahrez scored as defending champions Algeria booked a place at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations with a 2-2 draw in Zimbabwe Monday. The Desert Foxes joined Cameroon...

Sadio Mane scored the winner as Senegal became the first country to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations finals with victory away at Guinea Bissau on Sunday. https://twitter.com/CAF_Online/status/1328051227477860353?s=19

Moses Simon faces a race against time to be fit for Nigeria's 2021 AFCON qualifying encounters against Sierra Leone after limping off in the first half of Nantes' 3-0 defeat to PSG on Saturday.

FIFA has ratified the decision of the Confederation of Africa Football to stage the Africa Cup of Nations in January 2022. The tournament was originally scheduled for June 2021 in Cameroon but...

The 2020 African Nations Championship and the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations have both been postponed by a year CAF has announced. The measures are among a raft of decisions affecting CAF...

Goalkeeper trainer for the Super Eagles, Alloy Agu has weighed in on the furore surrounding national team goalkeeper Daniel Akpeyi whose perceived error in positioning many fans blame for Riyad Mahrez’s last-gasp free-kick winner in Nigeria’s semifinal...

Being a goalkeeper can be a thankless task. Goalkeepers have no hiding place; always in the firing line, their errors tend to be overly amplified and often prove costly making them an easy target for fans’ ire.

Cyriel Dessers has obtained a Nigerian passport in the clearest hint yet that he is set to be a part of the Super Eagles squad for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying double-header against Sierra Leone next month. The...

The Stephen Keshi Stadium, Asaba will host next month’s 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match between Nigeria’s Super Eagles and the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone, the Nigeria Football Federation has announced. “We have finally settled for the Stephen...