CAF announce Zanzibar host of 2024 African Schools championship final

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced Zanzibar, the awe-striking tourist destination on the outskirts of Tanzania as the host nation for the 2024 CAF African Schools Football Championship nals.

e second season of Africa’s largest youth football competition nals will be hosted at the recently refurbished Amaan Stadium between May 21 – 24, 2024. e CAF African Schools Football Championship features Boys and Girls under the age of 15.

Winners of both the Boys’ and Girls’ competition will each receive $300 000 prize money, runners-up each receiving $200 000, while the bronze medallists will each take home $150 00, courtesy of CAF’S partnership with the Motsepe Foundation to be utilised for development projects within schools.

According to Cafonline, Patrice Motsepe, CAF President and other African football legends will attend the nals of the 2024 edition of the competition that will feature winners from regional and zonal qualiers.

Building from the success of its inaugural edition held last year, this season has seen a 40 percent spike in participation, with 804,480 young African boys and girls from 28,862 schools across 44 countries participating in the second season of the championship.

Coupled with its platform of giving youngsters the opportunity to compete internationally, the competition has a parallel capacity-building programme a ording scholars, coaches and educators unique capacitybuilding skills.

roughout the zonal quali ers, CAF has rolled out various capacity-building programmes which included the Young Reporters Programme, Young Referee Programme, Young Medical O cers Programme, CAF D License Coaching Course, as well as the CAF Safeguarding workshops.