Ghana named host of 2018 U17 WAFU Cup in August

Published on: 14 March 2018

Ghana have been handed the right to host the maiden edition of the West African Football (WAFU) Zone B Under-17 Cup of Nations in August.

The WAFU Zone B Executive committee decided to hand the right to Ghana, taking it away from original host Cote D'voire for unexplained reasons.

The member countries who make up the Zone B, Ghana, Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo and Niger, as well as an eighth team to be invited from Zone A, will converge to challenge for the slot to play in the 2019 Africa Youth Championship from where they will seek qualification for the Under-17 World Cup in that year.

The new format is part of the restructuring the Confederation of African Football (CAF) is introducing to cut down cost for Member Associations (MA) in travelling around for qualifiers, as well as provide more competitions for the various groups.

With this new format, there will thus be zonal competitions as follows: WAFU Zones A and B, UNAF for North Africa, UNIFFAC for Central Africa, CECAFA for East Africa, COSAFA for Souther

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