Why Caf handed Nigeria two slots in maiden Caf Women’s Champions League

The Confederation of Africa Soccer has alloted two slots to Nigeria within the maiden Caf Ladies’s Champions League, Purpose can authoritatively report.

In September, the African governing physique confirmed eight golf equipment will participate within the remaining part of the inaugural girls’s membership competitors, following its inauguration of the championship in June.

Caf had additionally introduced that six zones will undergo the qualifying playoff spherical to provide a workforce every, becoming a member of the champions of the host nation, after which the eighth workforce will be chosen by a wild card.

“Every of the Six Caf Zones will set up qualifiers to find out the finalists for the eight-team event,” Caf wrote on its web site.

“The breakdown is as one workforce from every zone, one workforce from the host nation and one further workforce. For the maiden version, the zonal union of the host nation may have two representatives. 

“Nonetheless, for subsequent editions, the host nation may have just one consultant while the Zonal Union of the defending champion will qualify two groups.

“The format of the competitors, the eight certified groups will likely be drawn into two teams of 4 groups every in accordance with the rules.”

Nonetheless, Caf has now determined to cede the wild card to Nigeria because the holder of the Africa Ladies’s Cup of Nations title, which is able to see the Wafu B zone presenting two groups within the remaining part.

This improvement additionally means Nigeria will parade two groups, with the eventual league champions qualifying for the ultimate in Morocco, whereas the runners-up play within the Wafu B zone playoff.

“The qualifiers will likely be organised by the 6 zones recognised in Caf statutes,” Purpose revealed the information from Article 12 of the Caf Ladies’s Champions League 2021 Regulation. 

“Every zone will qualify one workforce to the ultimate event and the zone of the workforce holder of the title will interact two groups (the holders of the title along with one other workforce).

“For the first version seeing that there is no such thing as a holder of the title, the zone of the nation holding the title of the Ladies’s Africa Cup of Nations will interact two groups.

“Seven groups will qualify to the ultimate event along with the champion workforce of the host nation who’s robotically certified.”

Nigeria will decide its representatives via a six-team championship playoff, which will likely be held from April 19 to 25 in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State.

Purpose had damaged the information that Morocco, who’re the hosts of the 2020 Africa Ladies’s Cup of Nations will even double because the host of the maiden Caf Ladies’s Champions League this November.