The group that runs African football, called CAF, has released the list of candidates for the 2024 awards.
It will take place in Marrakech, Morocco, on December 16, 2024.
A statement from CAF says that the time frame being looked at is from January 2024 to October 2024.
Ten players have been named in each group.
Ronwen Williams, a goalie from South Africa, is up for Player of the Year, CAF goalie of the Year, and CAF Interclub Player of the Year.
The winners will be chosen by a team of experts from different fields, such as the CAF Technical Committee, the media, the Head Coaches and Captains of Member Associations, and clubs that are in the group stages of interclub competitions.
Soon, the list of women nominated for awards will be made public.
List of all the nominees:
PLAYER OF THE YEAR (MEN)
Algerian Amine Gouiri lives in Rennes.
Burkina Faso’s Edmond Tapsoba plays for Bayer Leverkusen.
Cote d’Ivoire’s Simon Adingra plays for Brighton & Hove Albion.
Chancel Mbemba (DR Congo/Olympique Marseille)
Guinean player Serhou Guirassy plays for Borussia Dortmund.
Morocco’s Achraf Hakimi plays for Paris Saint-Germain.
This is Soufiane Rahimi from Morocco/Al Ain.
Nigerian Ademola Lookman plays for Atalanta.
Africa/Al Kholood: William Troost Ekong
South African Ronwen Williams plays for Mamelodi Sundowns.
THE MAN OF THE YEAR FOR GOALKEEPER
Oussama Benbot (Algeria/USM Alger)
Cameroon’s Andre Onana plays for Manchester United.
Cote d’Ivoire’s Yahia Fofana plays for Angers SCO.
Lionel Mpasi (DR Congo/Rodez AF)
Mostafa Shobeir (Egypt/Al Ahly)
Malians and young Africans called Djigui Diarra
RS Berkane’s Munir El Kajoui is from Morocco.
Nigeria’s Stanley Nwabali plays for Chippa United.
South African Ronwen Williams plays for Mamelodi Sundowns.
Tunisia’s Amanallah Memmiche plays for Esperance Sportive de Tunis.
Men’s Interclub Player of the Year
Oussama Benbot (Algeria/USM Alger)
RS Berkane’s Issoufou Dayo is from Burkina Faso.
Zamalek member Ahmed Sayed aka “Zizo” (Egypt)
Hafez El Shahat (Egypt/Al Ahly)
Mostafa Shobeir (Egypt/Al Ahly)
Ghana’s Abdul Aziz Issah plays for Dreams FC.
John Antwi (Ghana/Dreams FC)
Tunisia’s Amanallah Memmiche plays for Esperance Sportive de Tunis.
Tunisia’s Yassine Merriah plays for Esperance Sportive de Tunis.
South African Ronwen Williams plays for Mamelodi Sundowns.
THE YEAR’S BEST COACH (MEN)
God bless you, Pedro Goncalves
Boubacar Traore (Burkina Faso)
Emerse Fae (Ivory Coast)
The DR Congo’s Sebastien Desabre
Jose Gomes (Zamalek)
Marcel Koller (Al Ahly)
Chiquinho Conde (Mozambique)
Hugo Broos
Al Hilal has Florent Ibenge.
Ghana’s Kwesi Appiah
THE YOUNG PLAYER OF THE YEAR FOR MEN
CAMEROON PLAYER Carlos Baleba (Brighton & Hove Albion)
Karim Konate (Ivory Coast/Salzburg)
Oumar Diakite of Côte d’Ivoire and Reims
Ghanaian player Yankuba Minteh plays for Brighton & Hove Albion.
Ghana’s Abdul Aziz Issah plays for Dreams FC and Barcelona.
Morocco’s Bilal El Khannouss plays for Leicester City.
Morocco’s Eliesse Ben Seghir plays for AS Monaco.
He is from Senegal and plays for Slavia Prague.
Senegal’s Lamine Camara plays for AS Monaco.
Tunisia’s Amanallah Memmiche plays for Esperance Sportive de Tunis.
THE YEAR’S BEST CLUB FOR MEN
Angola’s Petro Atletico FC
Map of TP Mazembe (DR Congo)
Al Ahly (Egypt)
Ali Zamalek (Egypt)
Dreams FC (Ghana)
RS Berkane (North Africa)
South African team Mamelodi Sundowns
Jungle Book Simba
African teens and young adults
Hope Sports Club of Tunis (Tunisia)
THE BEST MENS’ NATIONAL TEAM OF THE YEAR
Africom
In Burkina Faso
The Ivory Coast
DR Congo
Africa
Mozambique
Africa
South Africa
Sudan
Kenya.
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