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The Confederation of African Football will hold its Ordinary General Assembly in Abuja this November, CAF President Patrice Motsepe announced on Wednesday.
The decision to bring the biennial meeting to Nigeria reflects CAF’s wider commitment to spreading football development programmes across all 54 member associations, Motsepe told reporters in Johannesburg.
The CAF president added that his administration was determined to ensure every African country benefits from the body’s programmes and investments.
“We’re going to meet in Abuja in Nigeria for the Ordinary General Assembly in November,” Motsepe said.
“Nigeria is a proud football nation and there’s a reason why I took it to Nigeria and there’s a reason why I’m looking at some of the countries in Africa because we have to do something very special in every one of the 54 countries on the continent, as much as we have to do something special in South Africa, in Kenya, in Cameroon, all over the continent.”
The assembly, scheduled for November 21, 2026, will gather leaders from each of Africa’s football federations to discuss governance, competition schedules and strategic priorities.
Motsepe also expressed disappointment over Nigeria’s failure to qualify for the recently concluded World Cup, describing the tournament as poorer without the presence of the three-time African champions.
“I keep telling my Nigerian friends, you know, a World Cup for me without Nigeria, without Cameroon and many others is incomplete because Nigeria has always made us proud,” he said.
