Confederation of African soccer (CAF) president Patrice Motsepe has confirmed a brand new first rate League for the continent will kick off in 2023 with general prize money of $100m.
This dwarfs the entire prize cash of $12.5m for CAF’s gift headline continental opposition, the Champions League, wherein the winner takes domestic $2.5m.
“CAF president Patrice Motsepe nowadays introduced the govt committee has resolved the African first rate League will kick off in August 2023 and could be launched in Tanzania in August 2022,” CAF stated.
“info, along with the official name, will be unveiled on the release occasion.
“The competition will breathe new life into African membership competition. Winners and participants inside the inaugural African extraordinary League will get hold of good sized prize monies, and the proceeds from the event will encompass extensive unity payments to all 54 CAF member associations.
“throughout ultimate 12 months’s awesome widespread assembly in Egypt, the fifty four member institutions unanimously voted to go ahead with the opposition and gave a mandate to the president and govt committee to lead implementation of the competition.”
Motsepe stated $1m could be paid yearly to CAF’s member institutions.
“The selection has been taken to implement the CAF super League. It’s going to release at some point of CAF’s forty fourth ordinary assembly in Tanzania on August 10,” he said.
“We have been inundated with buyers and sponsors who’re anxious to associate with us inside the CAF brilliant League. It has large capacity to noticeably uplift African football and make it even greater powerful.
“we can be enticing with stakeholders over the following few weeks to speak about the mechanics of the match and will release in addition info quickly.
“A widespread amount of the cash from the CAF awesome League might be invested returned into African football, and part of the technique includes giving $1m every yr to every one in every of CAF’s 54 member institutions as a contribution to soccer and teenagers improvement. We additionally want to look to increase the prize cash for the guys’s and women’s CAF Champions Leagues.”
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