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Zheng Yen · October 30, 2026
On 21 December 2025, Corinthians won the Copa do Brasil by beating Vasco da Gama 2-1 on aggregate. The payday was huge. CNN Brasil reported that Corinthians collected R$97.791 million in prize money across the whole run, the largest amount...
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Zheng Yen · October 30, 2026
Lanús lifted the 2025 Copa Sudamericana after beating Atlético Mineiro 5-4 on penalties in the final. It was the Argentine club’s second title in the competition, and it kept a theme going: Brazilian sides keep reaching Sudamericana finals and keep...
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Zheng Yen · October 25, 2026
Algeria went seven matches without losing at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt, conceded just twice across the entire tournament, and needed exactly one penalty shootout to survive a genuine scare along the way. Djamel Belmadi’s side ended...
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Zheng Yen · October 22, 2026
Sabah lost the 2025 FA Cup final 5-0 to Johor Darul Ta’zim in front of 40,044 people at Bukit Jalil. A few months later they won the 2026 Challenge Cup, beating Penang on penalties for their first title in that...
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Zheng Yen · October 19, 2026
Algeria have played in 21 editions of the Africa Cup of Nations and won exactly two of them, three decades apart, both times against opponents who arrived as genuine contenders rather than makeweights. The 1990 win came at home against...
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Zheng Yen · October 3, 2026
Mark Williams was sitting on the bench when South Africa walked out at FNB Stadium to face Tunisia in the 1996 Africa Cup of Nations final. By the final whistle he had scored both goals in a 2-0 win, delivered...
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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 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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