Super Falcons vie for $1m as CAF increases WAFCON prize money
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has presented a necessary develop in the prize money for the 2024 Females’s Africa Cup of Countries (WAFCON), providing a top prize of $1 million (over ₦1.5 billion) to the eventual winners.
The announcement, made sooner than the match scheduled to withhold in Morocco, raises the total prize pool by Forty five per cent to USD 3.475 million.
CAF President Patrice Motsepe stated the adjustment is in step with the organisation’s strategic commitment to the convey of females’s soccer on the continent.
“CAF is persevering with with its commitment to the event and convey of females’s soccer in Africa,” Motsepe stated. “The 100% develop in the prize money of the winner of WAFCON Morocco 2024 and the Forty five% total develop in the prize money of this competition must make a contribution to the develop of the salaries of females soccer gamers, coaches and staff.”
He added that the normal of African females’s soccer is bettering and attracting rising hobby from followers, sponsors, and broadcasters.
According to CAF’s breakdown, the prize allocations for the 2024 match embody Winner: $1,000,000; Runner-up: $500,000; Third Residing: $350,000; Fourth Residing: $300,000; Quarter-finalists: $200,000 each and every; Third in Neighborhood: $150,000; Fourth in Neighborhood: $125,000.
The Enormous Falcons of Nigeria, 9-time WAFCON champions, are expected to be among the many main contenders. In 2018, Nigeria earned USD 200,000 for his or her title take—a sum that can now be awarded to groups that exit at the quarter-final stage below the revised structure.
The prize boost forms phase of CAF’s broader 2021–2025 Females’s Football Action Belief, which contains investments in childhood and grassroots programmes similar to the CAF Females’s Champions League and the African Colleges Football Championship
The 2022 version of WAFCON, additionally hosted by Morocco, saw file-breaking attendance, with over Forty five,000 spectators at the semi-final between Nigeria and the host nation. South Africa gained that match, claiming their first WAFCON title and a then-file USD 500,000 prize.
Nigeria, South Africa, Morocco, and Zambia all licensed for the 2023 FIFA Females’s World Cup following their WAFCON performances.
CAF says the elevated prize package for WAFCON 2024 is designed to incentivise performance and elevate the profile of females’s soccer across Africa.
