{"id":14038,"date":"2026-11-10T10:30:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T10:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/caf-announces-new-date-for-2026-awards-ceremony-in-lagos\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T10:30:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T10:30:56","slug":"caf-announces-new-date-for-2026-awards-ceremony-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/caf-announces-new-date-for-2026-awards-ceremony-in-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"CAF Announces New Date For 2026 Awards Ceremony In Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederation of African Football, CAF,  has announced a change to the date of the 2026 CAF Awards ceremony, bringing the event forward from Monday, 7 December, to Wednesday, 2 December 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The prestigious ceremony will take place at the iconic Professor Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and the Arts, popularly known as the National Theatre, in Lagos, Nigeria. <\/p>\n<p>This will mark the first time Nigeria has hosted the awards since the 2014 edition.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony is scheduled to begin at 7:00 pm local time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/ready-for-africa-lagos-state-guarantees-security-logistics-for-decembers-caf-awards\/\">\u2018Ready For Africa\u2019  \u2013Lagos State Guarantees Security, Logistics For December\u2019s CAF Awards<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/cafonline.com\">CAF <\/a>Awards will recognise outstanding achievements across 18 categories, with the CAF Men\u2019s Player of the Year and CAF Women\u2019s Player of the Year awards expected to headline the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Other categories will celebrate the remarkable contributions of coaches, goalkeepers, emerging talents, clubs and national teams whose performances have made a significant impact on African football and inspired supporters across the continent and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Voting for the 2026 CAF Awards is currently ongoing and will run from 5 to 20 November across the men\u2019s and women\u2019s categories.<\/p>\n<p>The voting process involves CAF Member Associations and clubs, with eligible coaches and team captains invited to cast their votes in recognition of the year\u2019s outstanding performers.<\/p>\n<p>According to CAF, the process is designed to guarantee broad representation across African football while promoting fairness and transparency in the selection of winners.<\/p>\n<p> Independent monitoring will also be in place to safeguard the integrity of the voting process.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederation of African Football, CAF, has announced a change to the date of the 2026 CAF Awards ceremony, bringing the event forward from Monday, 7 December, to Wednesday, 2&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}