CAF African Super League Teams 2023

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Several months ago, talks about the formation of the African Super League started to rise, which will bring together the biggest clubs on the continent for an annual competition.

After a meeting held with 40 clubs during the latest Africa Cup of Nations, CAF president Patrice Motsepe announced that the first edition of the African Super League will take place in 2023.

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The idea behind the tournament is to increase competition within the continent and create more income for the participating clubs. Additionally, if a team wishes to play in the newly-formed tournament, they will need an academy and a women’s team.

In a statement made by CAF today, Motesepe announced the approval of the competition, while also confirming the prize pool and start date.

The format of the tournament yet or how the teams for the Super League will be selected is yet to be revealed by the CAF.

“The CAF Executive Committee (“EXCO”) took a decision to launch the CAF Africa Super League in August 2022. This League will officially kick-off in August 2023,” the statement said.

“We announced on 3 July 2022 that the total prize money of the CAF Africa Super League will be USD 100 million, with the winner receiving USD 11.5 million.”

The tournament would surely need the presence of Egyptian heavyweights Al-Ahly as well as Soweto giants Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates, yet, on the merits of last season, none of the three have even qualified for the Caf Champions League.

Ahly will compete in the second-tier Caf Confederation Cup next season, while Chiefs and Pirates won’t feature in continental competition at all.

How can Motsepe ensure the ASL contains the continent’s biggest and grandest clubs, while simultaneously fending off accusations of elitism? Is it even possible to walk such a fine line?

It’s one of several elements of Wednesday’s announcement that has the potential to get supporters on board with Infantino’s vision, or turn them off completely.

Motsepe will also be expected to offer some assurances about the proposed prize money for the tournament.

So far, a pot of $100-million prize money—of which $11.6 million goes to the winner and $54 million going to the member associations of Caf—has been discussed, but these kinds of fees are on a different level from the current Caf Champions League, where the winner pockets $2.5 million.

Caf are surely relying massively on the backing of sponsors and broadcasters, but what evidence is there to suggest that such a competition would generate the required interest and commercial activity to underwrite such ambitious costings?

There are also concerns about how a Super League would represent the whole of a continent which has over 50 member nations, but immense inequality between regions let alone countries.

13 of the top 24 teams in the latest Caf five-year rankings are from the five North African states—over 54 percent of the top 24 teams on the continent; will the Super League feature the best teams, or will some of Africa’s big boys from the north miss out in order to ensure broad representation?

If there is broad representation, then where will be the appeal in watching North African teams compete against teams from Central Africa, of which there is only one—TP Mazembe of the Democratic Republic of Congo—inside the top 20?

Caf are understood to be planning a tournament involving a maximum of three clubs from 16 separate countries…what about the other 38?

Will fans really tune into this spectacle in enough volumes to fuel Motsepe’s optimistic financial forecasts?

What will the format be? What will the future of the Champions League be? How will the Super League affect Africa’s domestic leagues?

How many clubs in the continent have youth teams and women’s teams—understood to be two requisites of joining the league?

Already the South African Football Players Union have voiced their concerns in no uncertain terms, and don’t expect them to be the last sizeable body to raise objections to the concept itself and Caf’s specific handling of the project.

Hopefully, by the time Wednesday comes to a close, these questions will have been answered and the Super League doubters will have been assuaged; certainly, African football will never be the same again.