African Football League draw set for Saturday

The draw for the Inaugural African Football League (AFL) will be held on Saturday 2 September 2023 at 7 PM EAT in Cairo, Egypt and will be beamed live on the AFL website and televised by CAF’s broadcast partners.

The AFL is a partnership between CAF and FIFA and the Inaugural edition of the AFL will feature eight of Africa’s most famous and successful teams from the three African Regional Blocks: the North Region, the Central-West Region and the South-East Region.

Tanzania's Simba SC are set to take part in the competition and will be part of the three teams drawn from the South-East Region, the other two being South Africa's Mamelodi Sundowns and Atlético Petróleos de Luanda of Angola.

Egyptian giants Al Ahly Football Club, Tunisia’s Espérance Sportive de Tunis and Wydad Athletic Club from Morocco are the football clubs from the North Region while Nigeria’s Enyimba Football Club and the DRC’s Tout Puissant Mazembe are the clubs that will represent the Central-West Region.

The fixtures of the Inaugural AFL competition are structured on a home-and-away basis with the competition starting with knock-out quarter-finals.

This historic Inaugural edition of the AFL will take place over four weeks, kicking off with the Opening Ceremony and the first match on 20 October 2023 in Dar es Salam, Tanzania, followed by the semi-finals between 29 October and 1 November 2023, and the finals later on 5 and 11 November 2023.

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The Inaugural AFL is a precursor to the fully-fledged AFL competition which will feature the 24 highest-ranked football clubs on the African Continent and will commence during the 2024/2025 football season.