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Zheng Yen · September 23, 2026
The Nigeria Premier Football League, or NPFL, is the country’s top club competition. Twenty clubs play each other home and away, the bottom four are relegated, and the best finishers earn places in Africa’s continental tournaments. The 2025/26 season showed...
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Zheng Yen · September 23, 2026
Kenya’s top division goes by three names. Kenyan Premier League, FKF Premier League and SportPesa League all describe the same competition, which is one reason newcomers find it confusing before a ball is even kicked. The football itself is simpler...
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Zheng Yen · September 22, 2026
The Super Eagles are Nigeria’s men’s national football team, run by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). They have won the Africa Cup of Nations three times, taken Olympic gold in 1996 and played at six World Cups. For a country...
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Zheng Yen · September 22, 2026
Kenya has played at the Africa Cup of Nations six times, spread across nearly half a century, and has won exactly two matches in all of them. The Harambee Stars have never once made it out of the group. In...
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Zheng Yen · September 20, 2026
Kenyan football has never produced the sheer volume of European exports that West Africa has, which makes the players who did break through worth taking seriously on their own terms. This ranking weighs three things: how high each player’s peak...
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Zheng Yen · September 19, 2026
Kenya’s national football team takes its name from a word most Kenyans hear long before they ever watch a match. Harambee, Swahili for “all pull together,” is the country’s official national motto, and it has been attached to the football...
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Zheng Yen · September 18, 2026
Not every club chasing continental silverware is fighting for the same trophy. Below the CAF Champions League sits a second competition with its own history, its own dominant clubs, and its own path to a final, the CAF Confederation Cup....
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Zheng Yen · September 18, 2026
For 17 years, CHAN answered a question AFCON never really could: who is the best team built entirely from players plying their trade at home? That question no longer has a tournament attached to it. CAF confirmed in December 2025...
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Zheng Yen · September 17, 2026
Sixty-one clubs entered and sixteen reached the group stage. Our guide explains how Africa's biggest club competition works, who is in the 2026-27 groups and what is at stake....
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Zheng Yen · September 17, 2026
Cameroon had lost all three of their previous Women’s Africa Cup of Nations finals. Three times they had gone all the way to the last match and come away with nothing. So when they finally lifted the trophy in Rabat...
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Zheng Yen · September 16, 2026
Your full calendar of African football in 2027, from AFCON to the CAF club competitions, so you know what to follow and when....
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Zheng Yen · September 16, 2026
Forty-eight nations, twelve groups, and only twenty-one spots up for grabs. That is the maths behind AFCON 2027 qualifying, the process deciding who joins hosts Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda at next summer’s tournament. Here is exactly how the groups are...
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Zheng Yen · September 15, 2026
Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda co-host the first three-nation AFCON in 2027. Our guide covers the hosts, the format and what to expect....
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Zheng Yen · September 9, 2026
When a football club goes into administration, it means the club can no longer pay its debts and has handed control of its finances to an independent administrator instead of its own board. In English football, that trigger comes with...
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Zheng Yen · September 8, 2026
A loan deal temporarily moves a player from one club to another for an agreed period, while their registration and contract stay with the parent club the entire time. It gives the player first-team football they might not get where...
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Zheng Yen · September 8, 2026
A football transfer fee is the amount one club pays another to release a player from their contract before it expires, effectively buying out the remaining value of that player’s registration. Without an agreed fee, or the contract simply running...
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Zheng Yen · September 7, 2026
Financial Fair Play is a set of rules, introduced by UEFA in 2011, designed to stop football clubs spending far more money than they actually bring in. In practice, it requires clubs competing in European competition to stay close to...
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Zheng Yen · September 7, 2026
Paris Saint-Germain paid Barcelona 222 million euros for Neymar in August 2017, and nearly nine years on, nobody has come close to matching it. The closest anyone has gotten since is still a PSG signing from that same chaotic summer....
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Zheng Yen · September 6, 2026
Since 2003, Palmeiras, Corinthians, Vasco da Gama, Botafogo, and Cruzeiro have all spent at least one season playing in Serie B, Brazil’s second tier. Between them, those five clubs have won well over 30 Brazilian league titles across their history....
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Zheng Yen · September 6, 2026
Six Japanese players will feature in the Premier League for the 2026-27 season, the highest number in the competition’s history, beating the previous record of five set just two seasons earlier. Wataru Endo, Kaoru Mitoma, Daichi Kamada, and three others...
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