-As Morocco holds Zambia in a 2-2 draw in the opening match
By ISAAC DANIEL |ABNews| July 5, 2025
The governing body for African football, the Confederation of African Football, CAF, has increased the prize money of the Winner of this year’s forthcoming “TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (“WAFCON”), tagged “Morocco 2024”. .
According to CAF President, Dr. Patrice Motsepe, the increment is 100% for the total prize money for this Championship.
With this new welcomed development, the participating National female teams in the TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (“WAFCON”) Morocco 2024 will receive the following prize money:
Winner: USD 1 000 000
Runner up: USD 500 000
Third place: USD 350 000
Fourth place: USD 300 000
Quarter-finalists (4 Teams): USD 200 000 for each Team
3rd of the group: USD 150 000
4th of the group (3 Teams): USD 125 000 for each team.
Meanwhile, the amazing Super Falcons of Nigeria will begin their campaign for the 2024 WAFCON title today, Sunday July, 6th, with the Tunisia female National team.
The nine-times WAFCON champions, are ready to lift the trophy for the tenth time, according to reliable reports from their camp in Morocco.
The highly anticipated match will be played on Sunday, July 6th, at 5:00 PM. They well equipped Nigerian female National team,who had played and lost none of their pre-tournament friendly matches home and away, will be playing against Tunisia in the electrifying Labri Zaouli Stadium, Casablanca, Morocco.
This will be their first Group B match. Football pundits, journalists, and football officials worldwide have tipped the Super Falcons match as a must-watch. This according to them is based on the rich football legacy of the top two African female football teams in the last one decade and more.
Morocco, the host Nation held Zambia to a shocking 2-2 draw in the opening match of the tournament played yesterday. It was a very thrilling opener as the two great teams shared the points in WAFCON impressive first match.
They keenly contested match with classical football displays, had the spectators and fans shouting loudly with joy, “What a match”! What a stunning display of football! Zambia girls thoroughly daze the home Moroccan ladies with early goals Highly determined Morocco ladies battled back like wounded lion to secure a 2-2 draw against Zambia in the at the Olympic Stadium in Rabat.
The Moroccan goals came from Ibtissam Jraidi, with a 12th minutes penalty, and Ghizlane Chebbak in the 88th minute for Morocco. While Zambia’s goals scores came as early as the second minutes by Barbra Banda. In the 27th minutes, Racheal Kundananji scored Zambia’s second goal.
Their very outstanding encounter drew the curtain of the African women football championship, with wide applause within and outside the match venue, and online across the globe.
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