Draws for the 3rd and final round Africa zone qualifiers of the FIFA World Cup, Brazil 2014 will be carried out September 16 in Cairo, Egypt. The information has been made public by the World football governing body, FIFA. The playoffs will be played in two legs with the aggregate winners grabbing their tickets for Brazil 2014. Away leg matches have been scheduled for October 11-15 while the return leg takes ...

The first African countries qualified for the play-offs of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers have been known following the end of the 5th round yesterday. Algeria beat Rwanda 1-0 in Kigali yesterday to reach 12 points at the top of group H and go through to the next stage. The Pharaohs of Egypt confirmed their hegemony in group J after defeating Mozambique 1-0 to advance with 15 points. While disciplinary ...

Tunisia will be represented in the next edition of the UAFA cup by Club Africain. The information has been released by the country’s football federation. Club Africain finished 4th in the general standings of the play offs. For the Orange CAF Champions League, Tunisia will be represented by Club Sportif Sfaxien and Esperance Sportive Tunis. Meanwhile, Etoile Sportive Sahel and the winners of the cup of ...

The 4th round qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup, Brazil 2014 kicked off last Wednesday in the Africa zone with Nigeria beating Kenya 1-0 while Malawi and Namibia played a goalless draw. Libya will be hosting the Democratic Republic today in group I while the qualifiers continue tomorrow according to the following fixtures. Botswana Vs Ethiopia CAR Vs South Africa Zambia Vs Lesotho Gabon Vs Congo Angola Vs ...

Former Avenir Sportif Gabesien manager, Mohamed Jouirou has been named as the new coach of Tunisia football side, Stade Tunisien. This nomination follows the recent resignation of Ghazi due some internal problems faced by the club. The main task of the new coach is to prepare the team for the next season. Jouirou who previously occupied the post of Technical Director in Stade Tunisien’s youth squad will ...

The last playoffs to enter the group stage of the Orange Confederation cup took place over the weekend. Some impressive achievements of yesterday included Stade Malien’s 5-0 thrash over Lydia Ludi. On their part, Liga Muclmana of Mozambique bowed to Tout Puisant Mazembe 0-4. Complete results Bizertin (Tunisia) Vs Ismaily (Egypt) 3-0 Enugu Rangers (Nigeria) Vs CS Sfaxien (Tunisia) 1-0 Saint George (Ethiopia) ...

Tunisia would bid to host the 2017 edition of the U20 World Cup, the Tunisian Football Federation confirmed on Wednesday. The decision was arrived at during an executive meeting of the Tunisian Football Federation held on Tuesday in Tunis. The North African nation wants to host the competition for the second time after initially hosting in 1977. The 2013 edition will be held in Turkey between June 21 and ...

Fifa has appointed KAMILLE Bernard from Seychelles to handle the 2014 World Cup qualifier between Equatorial Guinea and Tunisia. The match would take place on June 16 at the Malabo stadium (Nuevo Estadio de Malabo). He would be assisted by his compatriots Petrousse Hensley Danny, ADLAIDE Eldrick and LABROSSE Jean-Claude. Nigeria’s BASSEY Paul would be the match commissioner. Tunisia would be hoping to ...

Esperance of Tunis host Algerian side JSM Bejaia this weekend in the second leg round of 16 Orange Caf Champions League match. The Tunisian Champions were held to a goalless draw in the first leg away in Algeria and would be looking on their home crowd to see them through to the group stage. However, 2011 African Champions face the prospect of an early exit should the Algerians score an away goal. This  ...

Ivory Coast are the 2013 African U-17 Champions. They achieved the rare feat for the first time in their history after a 5-4 penalties win over Nigeria in the final in Marrakech. The Baby Elephants secured the trophy after the match had ended 1-1 in normal time. Nigeria took the lead when Izu Omego struck in the eighth minute. Ivory Coast equalised through striker Bile Bedia 18 minutes later. Nigeria went ...