2024 CAF African Schools Championship: Zanzibar to host finals
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Zanzibar has been selected as the host nation for the CAF African Schools Football Championship finals 2024.
The second season of Africa’s largest youth football competition finals will be hosted at the recently refurbished Amaan Stadium between 21 – 24 May 2024, a statement issued by the CAF media outlet said.
CAF President, Dr Patrice Motsepe and a number of African Football legends will attend the finals of the 2024 edition of the competition that will feature winners from Regional/ Zonal Qualifiers, CAF Online said.
The CAF African Schools Football Championship features Boys and Girls under the age of 15. It is a first for world football and a brainchild of CAF President Dr Motsepe - in line with his vision of Investing in the Youth of Africa.
CAF online said building from the success of its inaugural edition, this season has seen a 40% spike in participation, with 804,480 young African boys and girls from 28,862 schools across 44 countries taking part in the second season.
"Coupled with its platform of giving youngsters the opportunity to compete internationally, the competition has a parallel capacity-building programme affording scholars, coaches and educators unique capacity-building skills."
It said throughout the Zonal Qualifiers, CAF has rolled out various capacity-building programmes which included the Young Reporters Programme, Young Referee Programme, Young Medical Officers Programme, CAF D License Coaching Course, as well as the CAF Safeguarding workshops.
Similar to last season, the CAF African Schools Football Championship finals is expected to be attended by some of CAF’s Legends to help inspire and encourage the aspiring footballers.
Winners of both the Boys’ and Girls’ competition will each receive $300,000 prize money, runners-up each receiving $200,000, while the bronze medalists will each take home $150 00, courtesy of CAF’s partnership with the Motsepe Foundation to be used for development projects within schools.
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