Estadio de Gran Canaria is a football stadium in Las Palmas , Canary Islands , Spain. It is currently used for football matches and is home to UD Las Palmas . It was opened in 2003 as a multi-purpose stadium to become the successor of the old Estadio Insular .
29-526: It was confirmed in July 2024 that the stadium will host matches in the 2030 FIFA World Cup . The stadium was inaugurated on 8 May 2003 with a friendly between UD Las Palmas and Anderlecht which was played in front of a full-capacity seats. The match ended 2–1 in favour of Las Palmas. The first scorer in the stadium was Rubén Castro . With a capacity of 32,400 seats, it is the 14th-largest stadium in Spain and
58-543: A 4-year deal to sponsor CAF competitions worth US$ 12.5 million, which was the biggest sponsorship deal in African sporting history at that time. CAF opened new sponsorship callouts when MTN's contract expired and French telecommunications giant Orange scooped it up in July 2009, signing an 8-year comprehensive long-term undisclosed deal to sponsor CAF competitions with a value of €100 million. On 21 July 2016, French energy and petroleum giant, Total S.A., replaced Orange as
87-814: The AFC and OFC , which has led to accusations that FIFA intentionally selected these countries, especially those in CONMEBOL region, to ensure that Saudi Arabia , an AFC member with major human rights controversies , would win their bid unopposed. Prior to the finalizing of the bid book on 31 July, the Royal Spanish Football Federation announced its proposed 11 stadiums from 9 cities to host matches. They had also proposed two more stadiums; Nou Mestalla in Valencia , and Balaídos in Vigo , but
116-815: The Africa Cup of Nations (abbreviated AFCON) in 1957 and it has since become its flagship competition. Faced with undisclosed decline in popularity of local competitions and the mass exodus of homegrown footballers to Europe, Asia and the Americas in the 1990s and early 2000s, CAF launched the African Nations Championship (alternatively, though not widely used, the Championship of African Nations (CHAN)) on 11 September 2007 and began organization two years later, to address this issue. CAF also organizes qualification tournaments/competitions for
145-537: The African Cup Winners' Cup , commenced in 1975 for national cup winners of member associations and a third currently-former competition, the CAF Cup , launched in 1992 for African teams who finished below the top 2 positions of the league classifications of member associations and haven't met any criteria for qualification to any CAF competition. CAF decided to merge these two competitions together to form
174-643: The African Cup of Champions Clubs (simply known sometimes as the African Cup ) and rebranded in 1997 as the CAF Champions League, this "prestigious" football club competition currently features the champions of top-division leagues of CAF member associations and the runners-up teams of the league classifications of member associations the top 12 ranked national associations as documented by the CAF 5-year ranking system. A currently-former competition,
203-765: The Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, Uruguay. The second and third games will be held in Argentina and Paraguay, respectively. The rest of the games will be held in Spain, Morocco and Portugal. This will be the first ever World Cup held in North Africa and the first World Cup held in the whole of Africa since 2010 , in South America since 2014 , as well as in Europe since 2018 . In terms of
232-633: The FIFA U-20 World Cup and the FIFA U-17 World Cup for its member associations; both of which initially began on a home-and-away two-legged basis but has since 1995 been organized in appointed host countries as respectively the Under-20 and U-17 Africa Cup of Nations . For women's football operates competitions which currently serve as qualification tournaments for the related FIFA-organized tournaments which launched at
261-644: The FIFA World Cup starting from 2026 and could have an opportunity of 10 spots with the addition of an intercontinental play-off tournament involving 6 teams to decide the last 2 FIFA World Cup places (46+2). The main headquarters of CAF was first situated within the offices of the Sudanese Football Association in Khartoum until it experienced a fire outbreak and then moved to a town near Cairo , Egypt until 2002. Youssef Mohamad
290-875: The Under-20 and Under-17 levels , launched in 2002 and 2008 respectively, both of which crowns no champions but instead qualifies 2 teams to compete at the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup and the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup respectively. For African clubs, CAF runs the CAF Men's and Women's Champions League , the CAF Confederation Cup , the CAF Super Cup and the African Schools Football Championship for both males and females. First held in 1964 as
319-486: The Wayback Machine For each tournament, the flag of the host country and the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown. Teams are sorted by number of appearances. The voting to select the best of the century refers to three categories: male player, goalkeeper and female player and is obtained from five different steps. The resulting best players and goalkeepers were honored during
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#1732801996163348-617: The Asian AFC or the North American CONCACAF . The 2030 FIFA World Cup has already been met with backlash from fans, football officials, and environmental groups with them noting the large distance between South America and Europe would require considerable plane travel, which would increase the carbon footprint and negate FIFA's carbon neutral plans. They have also noted the issues for fans of teams who would get drawn with Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, as well as
377-639: The CAF Champions League. The winners of the CAF Champions League play the winners of the African Cup Winners' Cup until 2004 and the CAF Confederation Cup thereafter in the CAF Super Cup which was launched in 1993. The Afro-Asian Club Championship was an annual football match jointly organized between CAF and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) between the winners of the CAF Champions League and
406-620: The Confederation of African Football. Additionally, there are territories located in Africa which are not affiliated with CAF or any other confederation to any extent. Some African states with limited or no international recognition have official national teams, but none have been considered for CAF membership. Instead, they are affiliated with organizations such as CONIFA . National teams: Clubs: Inter Continental: Regional: Shortly after formation, CAF organized
435-679: The World Cup. Confederation of African Football The Confederation of African Football ( CAF ) is the administrative and controlling body for association football , beach soccer , and futsal in Africa . It was established on 8 February 1957 at the Grand Hotel in Khartoum , Sudan by the national football associations of: Algeria , Egypt , Ethiopia , Nigeria , and South Africa . following formal discussions between
464-409: The addition of the two may exceed FIFA's limit of 20 stadiums. The host city list was finalized 12 days later, including 6 stadia in 6 cities from Morocco, 3 stadia in 2 cities from Portugal, joining 11 stadia in 9 cities from Spain, for a total of 20 stadia in 17 cities. Three South American cities were also selected in the bid book to host centenary matches. All six host nations will qualify for
493-561: The aforementioned associations at the FIFA Congress held on 7 June 1956 at Avenida Hotel in Lisbon , Portugal . Representing the African confederation of FIFA , CAF organizes runs and regulates national team and club continental competitions annually or biennial such as the Africa Cup of Nations and Women's Africa Cup of Nations , which they control the prize money and broadcast rights to. CAF will be allocated 9 spots at
522-538: The centennial World Cup competition. For the first time, three countries from two continents will host the competition, with Spain , Portugal , and Morocco as host nations. Additionally, Argentina , Paraguay , and Uruguay will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the FIFA World Cup, in particular the first World Cup in Uruguay. The first game, alongside a special centenary celebration, will be held in
551-465: The countries, this will be the first World Cup held in Morocco, Portugal, and Paraguay, the first held in Uruguay since the inaugural tournament , the first to take place in Argentina since 1978 , and the first to be held in Spain since 1982 . FIFA launched the bidding process in 2022. As hosts of the 2022 and 2026 editions respectively, the 2030 FIFA World Cup cannot be hosted by a member of
580-571: The current second-tier CAF Confederation Cup in 2004, and it currently incorporates the participation of national cup winners from the Cup Winners' Cup, whiles maintaining the format of the participation of teams who finished 3rd in the top-division league classifications of the 12 highest-ranked member associations as documented by the CAF 5-Year Ranking system from the CAF Cup. It is also ranked below
609-719: The exact same year they began formation. The flagship African women's football competition/tournament is the Women's Africa Cup of Nations , which launched in 1991 as the African Women's Championship and was known in the mass media between 2015 and 2021 as the Africa/African Women/Women's Cup of Nations , which currently qualifies 4 teams to the FIFA Women's World Cup . CAF also organizes qualification matches for "promising future female footballers" at both
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#1732801996163638-501: The largest in the Canary Islands by terms of capacity (Although not the largest in terms of surface area of the pitch is concerned). From 11 November 2014, the stadium went under restructuring works which lasted for 16 months. After the remodelization, the running track was removed to turn the venue into a football-specific stadium, with the seats closer to the playing ground. The Island Government has approved funds to upgrade
667-412: The main sponsor with an 8-year sponsorship package from CAF for a value of €950 million to support its competitions. Total rebranded as TotalEnergies on 28 May 2021. The current main CAF sponsors are: The following clubs are the top 10 clubs in CAF competitions. The following table lists all the countries whose clubs have won at least one CAF competition. Egyptian clubs are
696-507: The most successful, with a total of 44 titles. Egyptian clubs hold a record number of wins in the African Cup of Champions Clubs/CAF Champions League (18), the now-defunct African Cup Winners' Cup (8), the CAF Super Cup (12) and the now-defunct Afro-Asian Club Championship (3), followed by Tunisian clubs with 24 titles and they have the most victories in the now-defunct CAF Cup (4) and Moroccan clubs have secured also 24 titles with
725-577: The most victories in the CAF Confederation Cup (7). Rankings are calculated by the CAF based on points gathered by African teams throughout their participation in international club tournaments organized by either CAF themselves or FIFA since the establishment of the first African Cup of Champions Clubs in 1964. Per 22 June 2023: (*)= Provisional ranking (played at least 10 matches) (**)= Inactive for more than 24 months Rankings are calculated by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW). Top ten, last updated 12 March 2018 Archived 23 October 2019 at
754-549: The short amount of rest for players once those teams travel back to the main hosts in Iberia and Morocco. Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter warned that the number of hosts that the 2030 FIFA World Cup would cause the tournament to "lose its identity". Others have noted that with the FIFA rotation system, CONCACAF (which will host the 2026 FIFA World Cup), CONMEBOL , UEFA , and CAF would be unable to bid, leaving 2034 open only for
783-449: The stadium as it prepares to host matches for the FIFA World Cup in 2030 to over 40,000. This article about a Spanish sports venue is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 2030 FIFA World Cup The 2030 FIFA World Cup will be the 24th FIFA World Cup , a quadrennial international football tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA . The 2030 World Cup will mark
812-532: The winners of the AFC Champions League between 1987 and 1999. The CAF Women's Champions League was announced and approved on 30 June 2020, launched on 12 September that year and began contesting the following year, i.e. 2021. It features women's national league and cup winners nvolving the champions of CAF's sub-confederation qualification tournaments for women's club teams. In October 2004, South African telecommunications giant, MTN , contracted
841-508: Was the first general secretary and Abdel Aziz Abdallah Salem , the first president . President Patrice Motsepe from South Africa was elected on 12 March 2021 in an unopposed elections held in Rabat , Morocco . CAF launched a competition for all African composers to create its anthem without lyrics to reflect the cultural patrimony and the music of Africa on 18 September 2007. Sources: A total of 54 member associations are part of
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