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69-475: The league is contested by 18 teams every season. Until 2018, it was scheduled to run within the calendar year from March to December. Since then, owing to the decision by CAF on 20 July 2017 to switch from their traditional across-year runtime/schedule of their club competitions to align with that of the UEFA/European calendar , it currently runs from August to May. After each season and assuming Zambia

138-594: 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

207-735: A Crown dependency, uses "God Save the King" as a Royal anthem, but also has its own local anthem, "O Land of Our Birth" (Manx: " O Halloo Nyn Ghooie "). Although the United States has " The Star-Spangled Banner " as its official national anthem, all except two of its constituent states and territories also have their own regional anthem (referred to by most US states as a " state song "), along with Washington, DC . The two exceptions are New Jersey , which has never had an official state song, and Maryland , which rescinded " Maryland, My Maryland " in 2021 due to its racist language and has yet to adopt

276-693: A Nossa Pátria Bem Amada " is the national anthem of Guinea-Bissau and was also the national anthem of Cape Verde until 1996. " Oben am jungen Rhein ", the national anthem of Liechtenstein , is set to the tune of "God Save the King/Queen". Other anthems that have used the same melody include " Heil dir im Siegerkranz " (Germany), " Kongesangen " (Norway), " My Country, 'Tis of Thee " (United States), " Rufst du, mein Vaterland " (Switzerland), " E Ola Ke Alii Ke Akua " (Hawaiʻi), and " The Prayer of Russians ". The Estonian anthem " Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm "

345-842: 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 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

414-785: A dominion and colony of the UK, the " Ode to Newfoundland ". It was the only Canadian province with its own anthem until 2010, when Prince Edward Island adopted the 1908 song " The Island Hymn " as its provincial anthem. Czechoslovakia had a national anthem composed of two parts, the Czech anthem followed by one verse of the Slovak one . After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia , the Czech Republic adopted its own regional anthem as its national one, whereas Slovakia did so with slightly changed lyrics and an additional stanza. In Germany , many of

483-549: A more concise and unified structure. Many anthems have been written since then, generally by specialists in organ music rather than composers , and often in a conservative style. Major composers have usually written anthems in response to commissions and for special occasions: for instance Edward Elgar 's 1912 "Great is the Lord" and 1914 "Give unto the Lord" (both with orchestral accompaniment); Benjamin Britten 's 1943 " Rejoice in

552-495: A replacement. The state songs are selected by each state legislature , and/or state governor, as a symbol (or emblem) of that particular US state. Some US states have more than one official state song, and may refer to some of their official songs by other names; for example, Arkansas officially has two state songs, plus a state anthem, and a state historical song. Tennessee has the most state songs, with 12 official state songs and an official bicentennial rap . Arizona has

621-576: A separate flag anthem for such purposes. Not all countries have flag anthems. Some used them in the past but no longer do so, such as Iran, China, and South Africa. Flag anthems can be officially codified in law, or unofficially recognized by custom and convention. In some countries, the flag anthem may be just another song, and in others, it may be an official symbol of the state akin to a second national anthem, such as in Taiwan. Many pop songs are used as sports anthems , notably including Queen 's " We Are

690-444: A single song, and is sung straight through from start to finish, without repeating the melody for following verses like a normal song (although certain sections may be repeated when marked). An example of an anthem with multiple meter shifts, fuguing, and repeated sections is "Claremont", or "Vital Spark of Heav'nly Flame". Another well known example is William Billing 's "Easter Anthem", also known as "The Lord Is Risen Indeed!" after

759-425: A song that was written specifically as a state anthem in 1915, as well as the 1981 country hit "Arizona", which it adopted as the alternate state anthem in 1982. Two individuals, Stephen Foster , and John Denver , have written or co-written two state songs. Foster's two state songs, " Old Folks at Home " (better known as "Swanee Ribber" or "Suwannee River"), adopted by Florida, and " My Old Kentucky Home " are among

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828-667: Is a musical composition of celebration , usually used as a symbol for a distinct group, particularly the national anthems of countries . Originally, and in music theory and religious contexts, it also refers more particularly to short sacred choral work (still frequently seen in Sacred Harp and other types of shape note singing) and still more particularly to a specific form of liturgical music . In this sense, its use began c.  1550 in English-speaking churches; it uses English language words, in contrast to

897-613: Is among the top 12 countries in the current CAF 5-year ranking system, the top 4 teams will qualify for CAF competitions; the top 2 qualify for the CAF Champions League and the two teams finishing below the top 2 positions on the league table qualifies for the CAF Confederation Cup . The teams who finish in the final 3 positions of the table are relegated to the National League and replaced with

966-474: Is based on Mazurek Dąbrowskiego , which has also been the anthem of Poland since 1926, but the Yugoslav variation is much slower and more accentuated. Between 1991 and 1994 " Deșteaptă-te, române! " was the national anthem of both Romania (which adopted it in 1990) and Moldova , but in the case of the latter it was replaced by the current Moldovan national anthem, " Limba noastră ". Between 1975 and 1977,

1035-470: Is commonly used to describe any celebratory song or composition for a distinct group, as in national anthems . Further, some songs are artistically styled as anthems, whether or not they are used as such, including Marilyn Manson 's " Irresponsible Hate Anthem ", Silverchair 's " Anthem for the Year 2000 ", and Toto 's "Child's Anthem". A national anthem (also state anthem, national hymn, national song, etc.)

1104-511: Is generally a patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history, traditions, and struggles of a country 's people, recognized either by that state's government as the official national song , or by convention through use by the people. The majority of national anthems are marches or hymns in style. The countries of Latin America , Central Asia , and Europe tend towards more ornate and operatic pieces, while those in

1173-510: Is generally a patriotic musical composition that extols and praises a flag, typically one of a country, in which case it is sometimes called a national flag anthem. It is often either sung or performed during or immediately before the raising or lowering of a flag during a ceremony. Most countries use their respective national anthems or some other patriotic song for this purpose. However, some countries, particularly in South America, use

1242-518: Is set to a melody composed in 1848 by Fredrik (Friedrich) Pacius which is also that of the national anthem of Finland : " Maamme " (" Vårt Land " in Swedish). It is also considered to be the ethnic anthem for the Livonian people with lyrics " Min izāmō, min sindimō " ("My Fatherland, my native land"). " Hey, Slavs " is dedicated to Slavic peoples . Its first lyrics were written in 1834 under

1311-545: Is the longest national anthem in the world by length of text. In 1865, the first three stanzas and later the first two officially became the national anthem of Greece and later also that of the Republic of Cyprus . " Forged from the Love of Liberty " was composed as the national anthem for the short-lived West Indies Federation (1958–1962) and was adopted by Trinidad and Tobago when it became independent in 1962. " Esta É

1380-815: 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

1449-467: 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 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

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1518-537: 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

1587-643: 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,

1656-539: The Basque Country , and " Os Pinos " of Galicia , all written and sung in the local languages. The United Kingdom's national anthem is " God Save the King " but its constituent countries and Crown Dependencies also have their own equivalent songs which have varying degrees of official recognition. England , Scotland , Wales , and Northern Ireland each have anthems which are played at occasions such as sports matches and official events. The Isle of Man ,

1725-525: The Book of Common Prayer until 1662 when the famous rubric "In quires and places where they sing here followeth the Anthem" first appears. Early anthems tended to be simple and homophonic in texture, so that the words could be clearly heard. During the 17th century, notable anthems were composed by Orlando Gibbons , Henry Purcell , and John Blow , with the verse anthem becoming the dominant musical form of

1794-583: The Catholic and Lutheran Churches but represents an essentially English musical form . Anthems may be described as " verse ", "full", or "full with verse", depending on whether they are intended for soloists , the full choir , or both. Another way of describing an anthem is that it is a piece of music written specifically to fit a certain accompanying text, and it is often difficult to make any other text fit that same melodic arrangement. It also often changes melody and/or meter, frequently multiple times within

1863-633: 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

1932-596: The Länder (states) have their own anthems, some of which predate the unification of Germany in 1871. A prominent example is the Hymn of Bavaria , which also has the status of an official anthem (and thus enjoys legal protection). There are also several unofficial regional anthems, like the " Badnerlied " and the " Niedersachsenlied ". Some of the states and union territories of India have officially adopted their own state anthem for use during state government functions. All

2001-605: The Middle East , Oceania , Africa , and the Caribbean use a simpler fanfare . Some countries that are devolved into multiple constituent states have their own official musical compositions for them (such as with the United Kingdom, Russian Federation, and the former Soviet Union); their constituencies' songs are sometimes referred to as national anthems even though they are not sovereign states . A flag anthem

2070-612: The Montenegrin and Serbian regions of Serbia and Montenegro adopted their own regional anthems. When the two regions both became independent sovereign states in mid-2006, their regional anthems became their national anthems. Fourteen of the fifteen constituent states of the Soviet Union had their own official song which was used at events connected to that region, and also written and sung in that region's own language. The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic used

2139-523: The Restoration . In the 18th century, famed anthems were composed by Croft, Boyce, James Kent , James Nares , Benjamin Cooke , and Samuel Arnold . In the 19th century, Samuel Sebastian Wesley wrote anthems influenced by contemporary oratorio which stretch to several movements and last twenty minutes or longer. Later in the century, Charles Villiers Stanford used symphonic techniques to produce

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2208-599: The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical), Hoagy Carmichael 's " Georgia on My Mind ", " Tennessee Waltz ", " Missouri Waltz ", and " On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away ". Many of the others are much less well-known, especially outside the state. New Jersey has no official state song, while Virginia 's previous state song, " Carry Me Back to Old Virginny ", adopted in 1940, was later rescinded in 1997 due to its racist language by

2277-476: The South African national anthem has been a hybrid song combining new English lyrics with extracts of "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" and the former state anthem " Die Stem van Suid-Afrika ". For North and South Korea, the folk song Arirang is considered a shared anthem for both countries. For example, it was played when the two Koreas marched together during the 2018 Winter Olympics . " Hymn to Liberty "

2346-617: The Soviet Union . Accordingly, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, and Ukraine have banned those anthems amongst other things deemed to be symbols of fascism, socialism, communism, and the Soviet Union and its republics. In Poland , dissemination of items which are “media of fascist, communist, or other totalitarian symbolism” was criminalized in 1997. However, in 2011 the Constitutional Tribunal found this sanction to be unconstitutional. In contrast to this treatment of

2415-803: 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

2484-565: The Virginia General Assembly . In 2015, " Our Great Virginia " was made the new state song of Virginia. Iowa (" The Song of Iowa ") uses the tune from the song " O Tannenbaum " as the melody to its official state song. In Yugoslavia , each of the country's constituent states (except for Bosnia and Herzegovina ) had the right to have its own anthem, but only the Croatian one actually did so initially, later joined by

2553-486: 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

2622-583: The symbolism , promotion of fascist, communist and other totalitarian ideology remains illegal. Those laws do not apply to the anthems of Russia , Belarus , Uzbekistan , Kazakhstan , and Tajikistan which used the melody with different lyrics. In Spain , the situation is similar to that in Austria and Germany. Unlike the national anthem, most of the anthems of the autonomous communities have words. All are official. Three prominent examples are " Els Segadors " of Catalonia , " Eusko Abendaren Ereserkia " of

2691-480: The "World Football Gala 1999". In 2007, CAF published the list of top 30 African players who played in the period from 1957 to 2007, as part of the celebration of the golden jubilee or 50th anniversary of the foundation of CAF, ordered according to an online poll. Awards: Qualifications: This table is for players with 30 or more goals for a CAF national team. Players in bold are still active at international level. Anthem An anthem

2760-639: 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

2829-647: The Champions " and " We Will Rock You ", and some sporting events have their own anthems, most notably including UEFA Champions League . Although anthems are used to distinguish states and territories, there are instances of shared anthems. " Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika " became a pan-African liberation anthem and was later adopted as the national anthem of five countries in Africa including Zambia , Tanzania , Namibia and Zimbabwe after independence. Zimbabwe and Namibia have since adopted new national anthems. Since 1997,

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2898-653: The Lamb " (a modern example of a multi-movement anthem, today heard mainly as a concert piece); and, on a much smaller scale, Ralph Vaughan Williams 's 1952 "O Taste and See" written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II . With the relaxation of the rule, in England at least, that anthems should only be in English, the repertoire has been greatly enhanced by the addition of many works from the Latin repertoire. The word "anthem"

2967-640: The Soviet Union ", was used until its dissolution in 1991, and was given new words and adopted by the Russian Federation in 2000 to replace an instrumental national anthem that had been introduced in 1990. " Bro Gozh ma Zadoù ", the regional anthem of Brittany and, " Bro Goth Agan Tasow ", the Cornish regional anthem, are sung to the same tune as that of the Welsh regional anthem " Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau ", with similar words. Some countries, such as

3036-624: The Soviet Union's national anthem as its regional anthem (" The Internationale " from 1917 to 1944 and the " National Anthem of the Soviet Union " from 1944 to 1990) until 1990, the last of the Soviet constituent states to do so. After the Soviet Union disbanded in the early 1990s, some of its former constituent states, now sovereign nations in their own right, retained the melodies of their old Soviet-era regional anthems until replacing them or, in some cases, still use them today. Unlike most national anthems, few of which were composed by renowned composers,

3105-497: The Soviet Union's various regional anthems were composed by some of the best Soviet composers, including world-renowned Gustav Ernesaks (Estonia), Aram Khachaturian (Armenia), Otar Taktakishvili (Georgia), and Uzeyir Hajibeyov (Azerbaijan). The lyrics present great similarities, all having mentions to Vladimir Lenin (and most, in their initial versions, to Joseph Stalin , the Armenian and Uzbek anthems being exceptions), to

3174-784: The best-known songs in the US On March 12, 2007, the Colorado Senate passed a resolution to make Denver's trademark 1972 hit " Rocky Mountain High " one of the state's two official state songs, sharing duties with its predecessor, "Where the Columbines Grow". On March 7, 2014, the West Virginia Legislature approved a resolution to make Denver's " Take Me Home, Country Roads " one of four official state songs of West Virginia. Governor Earl Ray Tomblin signed

3243-571: 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

3312-719: 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

3381-552: The former Soviet Union , Spain , and the United Kingdom , among others, are held to be unions of several "nations" by various definitions. Each of the different "nations" may have their own anthem and these songs may or may not be officially recognized; these compositions are typically referred to as regional anthems though may be known by other names as well (e.g. "state songs" in the United States ). In Austria ,

3450-578: The guiding role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , and to the brotherhood of the Soviet peoples, including a specific reference to the friendship of the Russian people (the Estonian, Georgian and Karelo-Finnish anthems were apparently an exception to this last rule). Some of the Soviet regional anthems' melodies can be sung in the Soviet Union anthem lyrics (Ukrainian and Belarus are

3519-444: The individual states of Malaysia have their own anthems. In Mexico , after the national anthem was established in 1854, most of the states of the federation adopted their own regional anthems, which often emphasize heroes, virtues or particular landscapes. In particular, the regional anthem of Zacatecas , the " Marcha de Zacatecas ", is one of the more well-known of Mexico's various regional anthems. In 2004 and 2005 respectively,

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3588-471: The league on SuperSport, the prize money given to each league team is ZMW300,000 ($ 15,848.52). The league runners-up receives ZMW 350,000 ($ 18,489.94) and the other 16 teams receive ZMW 200,000 ($ 10,565.68). The previous league winners are as follows: 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

3657-412: 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

3726-434: The most fitted in this case). Most of these regional anthems were replaced with new national ones during or after the dissolution of the Soviet Union ; Belarus , Kazakhstan (until 2006), Tajikistan , Turkmenistan (until 1997), and Uzbekistan kept the melodies, but with different lyrics. Russia itself had abandoned the Soviet hymn, replacing it with a tune by Glinka . However, with Vladimir Putin coming to power,

3795-447: 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

3864-577: 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

3933-442: The national anthem of Romania " E scris pe tricolor Unire " shared the same melody as the national anthem of Albania " Himni i Flamurit ", which is the melody of a Romanian patriotic song " Pe-al nostru steag e scris Unire ". The modern national anthem of Germany , " Das Lied der Deutschen ", uses the same tune as the 19th- and early 20th-century Austro-Hungarian imperial anthem " Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser ". The " Hymn of

4002-404: The old Soviet tune was restored, with new lyrics written to it. Like the hammer and sickle and red star , the public performance of the anthems of the Soviet Union's various regional anthems the national anthem of the Soviet Union itself are considered as occupation symbols as well as symbols of totalitarianism and state terror by several countries formerly either members of or occupied by

4071-425: The opening lines. This anthem is still one of the more popular songs in the Sacred Harp tune book. The anthem developed as a replacement for the Catholic "votive antiphon" commonly sung as an appendix to the main office to the Blessed Virgin Mary or other saints . During the Elizabethan period , notable anthems were composed by Thomas Tallis , William Byrd , Tye, and Farrant but they were not mentioned in

4140-416: The originally Roman Catholic ' motet ' which sets a Latin text. Anthem is derived from the Greek ἀντίφωνα ( antíphōna ) via Old English antefn . Both words originally referred to antiphons , a call-and-response style of the singing. The adjectival form is "anthemic". Anthems were originally a form of liturgical music . In the Church of England , the rubric appoints them to follow

4209-466: The resolution into law on March 8, 2014. Additionally, Woody Guthrie wrote or co-wrote two state folk songs – Roll On, Columbia, Roll On and Oklahoma Hills – but they have separate status from the official state songs of Washington and Oklahoma, respectively. Other well-known state songs include " Yankee Doodle ", " You Are My Sunshine ", " Rocky Top ", and " Home on the Range "; a number of others are popular standards, including " Oklahoma " (from

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4278-434: The situation is similar to that in Germany. The regional anthem of Upper Austria , the "Hoamatgsang" (English: "Chant of the Homeland" ), is notable as the only (official) German-language anthem written – and sung – entirely in dialect. In Belgium , Wallonia uses " Le Chant des Wallons " and Flanders uses " De Vlaamse Leeuw ". Most of the Brazilian states have official anthems. Minas Gerais uses an adapted version of

4347-527: The teams who finish in the top 3 positions of the National League table. The league's broadcaster since 2007 is South Africa-based SuperSport , which telecasts 126 of the current 306 matches each season, all outside Southern Africa . Seven matches were added to the telecast schedule since the 2022–23 season . In 2018, FAZ struck a deal with the MTN Group of South Africa to sponsor the league being worth initially $ 4 million (ZMW 7,571,280) for 5 years which has since been extended till date. Via telecasting

4416-407: The third collect at morning and evening prayer. Several anthems are included in the British coronation service . The words are selected from Holy Scripture or in some cases from the Liturgy and the music is generally more elaborate and varied than that of psalm or hymn tunes . Being written for a trained choir rather than the congregation, the Anglican anthem is analogous to the motet of

4485-422: The title "Hey, Slovaks" ("Hej, Slováci") by Samuel Tomášik and it has since served as the ethnic anthem of the Pan-Slavic movement, the organizational anthem of the Sokol physical education and political movement, the national anthem of Yugoslavia and the transitional anthem of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro . The song is also considered to be the second, unofficial anthem of the Slovaks. Its melody

4554-403: The traditional Italian song "Vieni sul mar" as its unofficial anthem. During the Vargas Era (1937–1945) all regional symbols including anthems were banned, but they were legalized again by the Eurico Gaspar Dutra government. The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador , having been the independent Dominion of Newfoundland before 1949, also has its own regional anthem from its days as

4623-461: 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

4692-513: 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 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

4761-432: 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 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

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