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Deborah Abiodun with a fantastic assist

Deltamani:
𝑩𝑹𝑬𝑨𝑲𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑵𝑬𝑾𝑺🚨📰

Wafcon Expands to 16 Teams For 2026 Finals

The Women's Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) finals will expand from 12 to 16 teams starting from the 2026 edition, the Confederation of African Football (Caf) has announced.

Next year's tournament in Morocco 🇲🇦 was set to have 12 competing sides, and qualifying for the finals has already reached the second and final round.

The expansion will likely require a third round of preliminaries to be played, with 11 remaining nations competing for four spots.

Caf is expected to announce further details after discussions at its executive committee meeting being held in Kinshasa.

Wafcon was an eight-team tournament from its first edition in 1998 until the 2018 finals in Ghana 🇬🇭.

The 2020 Wafcon was scrapped because of the Covid-19 pandemic, but the competition returned with 12 sides in 2022.

Caf has invested in order to improve women's football on the continent, with this year's tournament in Morocco seeing a 45% increase in the overall prize pot to $3.45m (£2.6m).

Champions Nigeria 🇳🇬 were handed $1m (£750,000) after winning a record-extending 10th Wafcon title.
"I am pleased with the progress we've made in women's African football," Caf president Patrice Motsepe said.

"Part of my starting point is making sure [men and women] are paid well and they can make a career out of football.

"I can assure you women's football will continue to improve because that is an area we are focussing on a lot."

#WAFWOS #WAFCON #africa #nigeria #SoarSuperFalcons

I support this move! But it should have been announced before the qualifiers began, instead of changing the rules in the middle of the game.
Anyway, CAF may have to extend the duration of the tournament by at least one or two days in the interest of the players’ health and adequate TV coverage

Chiamaka Nnadozie nominated for PFA WSL Fans' Player of the Month for Sept 2025

TheSuperNerd:
Chiamaka Nnadozie nominated for PFA WSL Fans' Player of the Month for Sept 2025

Go and Vote. I HAVE DONE MINE.

Chidi Harmony joins Bayelsa Queens on season long loan

Edna imade scored a brace today. She's scored in the last 3 games.

lovewins:
Edna imade scored a brace today. She's scored in the last 3 games.

If we lose this girl, men it’s finish because this girl is just too good in the air and a typical no.9 that we don’t have.. She will benefit a lot from Okoronkwo who’s a better with delivery good crosses and assists..

Madugu better Bring this girl in and play her alongside Okoronkwo and Ajibade upfront.

Imade is well built, fast and Strong. You will need two very powerful Defenders to get her down…

lovewins:
Edna imade scored a brace today. She's scored in the last 3 games.

4️⃣ goals in 5 League games not bad at all..

• Edna Imade
• Joy Omewa
• Asisat Oshoala

Should be Super Falcons no.9 in that particular order as Esther can play as our Right Winger since she loves to drift wide alot and can draw players to herself to open space for the rest.

What of Monday Gift 🤦‍♂️🙆‍♂️

Edna Imade and Joy Omewa
We need to quickly draft them into the SF setup.

Deltamani:
4️⃣ goals in 5 League games not bad at all..

• Edna Imade
• Joy Omewa
• Asisat Oshoala

Should be Super Falcons no.9 in that particular order as Esther can play as our Right Winger since she loves to drift wide alot and can draw players to herself to open space for the rest.

What of Monday Gift 🤦‍♂️🙆‍♂️

Oshoala at this point is a honorary member of the team and quite frankly isn't in contention to for lot of playing time.

Esther Okoronkwo still ahead of the pack in my opinion. Gift Monday retuning may mean an adjustment to Esther's role but we'll see. The CIA h also fancies Ihezuo so she should roster. New entrants are Imade and Omewa. We'll see what they bring to the table, I just hope they are capped soon and given a chance to show what they can bring to the team. If it were up to me for the forth coming qualifiers, I won't invite Asisat and Ihezuo, I'll replace them with Omewa and Imade and vice both some playing time once the damage is done to the opponent.

[quote author=lovewins post=136916504]Joy Okonye currently leads players on Nigerian decent at the NCCA in goals and assists.


She has 5 goals and 5 assists so far this season (in 10 games.

BTW, I don't know how old she is because there's no verifiable information online indicative of this, I however would have loved to see her at the u20 world cup. I'm guessing she should be 19+ being a junior

Below are links to 2 of the crazy goals she scored just 4 days ago. Just amazing stuff.

Joy Okonye with another tremendous goal! 3-0!#EverTrue pic.twitter.com/I0ihtr35FC

— Brown Women's Soccer (@BrownU_WSoccer) September 21, 2025

Joy Okonye delivers a strike to make it 1-0!#EverTrue pic.twitter.com/qX1T2LSuF9

— Brown Women's Soccer (@BrownU_WSoccer) September 21, 2025

I was researching the performances of Nigerian players in the NCAA, a "Nigerian" name appeared on the top scorers list that piqued my curiosity, but was sad to realize that Canada already capped her.

Meet 18 yr old Skillful forward Annabelle Chukwu, who since 2024 scored 25 goals and 2 Assists for Canada u20 team in 17 games.

She's currently one of the top scorers in the NCAA with 8 goals in 20 games.

Here's a link showing just how skillful she is.

18 year old Annabelle Chukwu 🇨🇦

Canada u20 🇨🇦
▪️2025: 11 ⚽ in 7 games
▪️2024: 14 ⚽ & 2🅰️ in 10 games

NCAA 🇺🇲
▪️2025: 8 ⚽in 10 games

Made her debut for Canada's senior team in 2025 and has 2 Caps so far pic.twitter.com/qQOzsp2syM

— Albahaca (@abuotor) October 11, 2025

[quote author=lovewins post=137093647]When I was researching the performances of Nigerian players in the NCAA, a "Nigerian" name appeared on the top scorers list that piqued my curiosity, but was sad to realize that Canada already capped her.

Meet 18 yr old Skillful forward Annabelle Chukwu, who since 2024 scored 25 goals and 2 Assists for Canada u20 team in 17 games.

She's currently one of the top scorers in the NCAA with 8 goals in 20 games.

Here's a link showing just how skillful she is.

18 year old Annabelle Chukwu 🇨🇦

Canada u20 🇨🇦
▪️2025: 11 ⚽ in 7 games
▪️2024: 14 ⚽ & 2🅰️ in 10 games

NCAA 🇺🇲
▪️2025: 8 ⚽in 10 games

Made her debut for Canada's senior team in 2025 and has 2 Caps so far pic.twitter.com/qQOzsp2syM

— Albahaca (@abuotor) October 11, 2025

dont see Canada letting Annable go. She is the future of Canadian football. Also the NFF is not serious. We are not even sure we can get Edna Imade. Vicky Lopez was ready to play for Nigeria but nobody from the NFF approached her. Onyeka Gamero is also there but I doubt the NFF will approach her. Our NFF are just too unserious.

Since 2021/22 Season Joy Omewa has played 80 Danish League games for Fortuna Hjorring scoring 47goals…


📝 Note; Champions League, Europa League, Cup games and Friendly Games goals ain’t included..

I really dream of a day this our nwfl will be a destination zone in female football for other African stars and even foreigners just the way Mexico is currently. We go need setup a lot of stuff off pitch to guarantee that level of attraction though.

Chioma Okafor currently has 6goals in 12games this season for UCCON playing 966minutes…

BascoVanVeli:
Chidi Harmony joins Bayelsa Queens on season long loan

Didn't Chidi Harmony join the U17 Flamingo squad to Morocco?

solonnachi:
Didn't Chidi Harmony join the U17 Flamingo squad to Morocco?

According to reports she’s recovering from an injury..!

Oh wow. Missed this. Good move. Wishinh her a goals laden season at Bayelsa.

Funny how her team, Imo Strikers are also got promoted to the NWFL. So she will come up against her parent side.

BascoVanVeli:
Chidi Harmony joins Bayelsa Queens on season long loan

Damn it! No wonder she is not in the squad. How about her twin, that #15 Effiong Peace?

Meanwhile Flamingoes beat Paraguay 3-2 in a final tuneup game. Maryam Yahaya scored a hattrick. Pls, who is Maryam Yahaya? Havent been following the cadet girls lately.

Deltamani:
According to reports she’s recovering from an injury..!

TheSuperNerd:
Damn it! No wonder she is not in the squad. How about her twin, that #15 Effiong Peace?

Meanwhile Flamingoes beat Paraguay 3-2 in a final tuneup game. Maryam Yahaya scored a hattrick. Pls, who is Maryam Yahaya? Havent been following the cadet girls lately.

They begin their u17 world cup campaign on October 19th

Mehn. That is 4 days away. Vs Canada. Well, with the last warmup win, that's a confidence boost for the girls.

solonnachi:
They begin their u17 world cup campaign on October 19th

Morocco U17 vs Brazil U17 - Kickoff game for the Morocco 2025 FIFA U17 WWC.

October 17 - in 2 days.

Cant wait. Especially for this beautiful left footed midfield pearl. Captain of the side. 👇🏽👇🏽

Esther Okoronkwo... Player of the Month for September 2025.

So I just found out Paraguay U17s are the South American Champs. Wow. Huge tuneup win that was.

TheSuperNerd:
Damn it! No wonder she is not in the squad. How about her twin, that #15 Effiong Peace?

Meanwhile Flamingoes beat Paraguay 3-2 in a final tuneup game. Maryam Yahaya scored a hattrick. Pls, who is Maryam Yahaya? Havent been following the cadet girls lately.

Shukurat Oladipo played all 90mins for Roma ladies as they fell 0-4 vs Giants, Barca Femeni in the Women's UCL.

Gift Monday scores but gets her goal ruled out for a foul that never happened

Trinity Rodman gets injured again. That is tough

BascoVanVeli:
Trinity Rodman gets injured again. That is tough

Called up by USA so will have to sit it out if very serious.

Concacaf Women's Champions cup. I checked and see that Ihezuo is top scocer so far with 4 goals. Impressive. Our lasses at it again.

BascoVanVeli:
Gift Monday scores but gets her goal ruled out for a foul that never happened

Gift Monday gets a well deserved goal. Rose Kouassi of Ivory Coast with a fantastic assist

TheSuperNerd:
Called up by USA so will have to sit it out if very serious.

It seemed serious. She was in tears

Feel for her. Meanwhile seems Monday has scored in same game yeah? 4-0 now

BascoVanVeli:
It seemed serious. She was in tears