Men's World Cup in Qatar, Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, African Nations Championship in Algeria: the next few months promise to be exciting for football...

African football: five questions for the 2022-2023 season

Bamba Dieng, Ismaïla Sarr and Sadio Mané (from left to right) during the Senegal-Equatorial Guinea match on January 30, 2022 at the Ahmadou-Ahidjo stadium.

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Men's World Cup in Qatar, Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, African Nations Championship in Algeria: the coming months promise to be exciting for African football.

Here are five questions around this 2022-2023 season.

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Will an African team reach the last four of the World Cup in Qatar?

Cameroon, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia: these five countries will represent Africa at the Men's World Cup, scheduled for November 21 to December 18 in Qatar.

Will one of these teams achieve what no nation on the continent has ever achieved: reach the semi-finals of the World Cup?

During the last edition in Russia, all African selections were eliminated in the first round.

And we have to go back to 2010 and the elimination of the Ghanaians in the quarter-finals of the South African World Cup to find traces of an African country close to the last four.

Will Algeria smile again with CHAN 2022 at home?

Eliminated in the first round of CAN 2021, not qualified for the 2022 World Cup, Algerian football has lost its smile.

Will he find him again on the occasion of the next African Nations Championship (CHAN 2022), scheduled at home from January 13 to February 4, 2023?

This competition is far from successful for the Algerians 4th in 2011 and nothing else.

For their second participation, will they succeed the Moroccans, crowned in 2018 and 2020?

Will Cameroon and Senegal qualify for the 2023 Women's World Cup?

Next February, Cameroonians and Senegalese will compete in the play-offs for the next World Cup, scheduled for June 20 to July 20 in Australia and New Zealand.

Will they join the South Africans, Moroccans, Zambians and Nigerians, who have already qualified through CAN 2022?

The Lionesses of Cameroon and Senegal already know almost all the teams that will take part in the three mini draft tournaments whose winners will go to the 2023 World Cup: Chile, Haiti, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Panama, Taiwan and Thailand.

The tenth participating team, European, will be designated next October.

Will a team from sub-Saharan Africa win a club competition again?

For five years, the teams of North Africa have further accentuated their stranglehold on the continental interclub competitions.

Since the coronation of Tout Puissant Mazembe in the Confederation Cup (C2) in 2017, no formation from sub-Saharan Africa has won in African club cups.

The Kaizer Chiefs, in the 2021 Champions League final, and the Orlando Pirates, in the 2022 C2 final, failed at the gates of the title.

To find traces of a West African club at this stage, we even have to go back to 2014 and the reverse of Séwé Sport (Côte d'Ivoire) against Al Ahly, in the Confederation Cup.

To prepare for the next Champions League, four West African clubs have therefore decided to compete from August 21 to 25 in Guinea, on the occasion of the West Africa Champions Cup: Horoya, SOAR Academy, Djoliba (Mali) and Casa Sports (Senegal).

Which country will get the organization of CAN 2027?

For now, Botswana and Namibia are joining forces to co-organize this 36th African Cup of Nations.

Uganda and Tanzania have also come closer together.

Zambia could also get started.

Still, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has still not officially launched a call for applications to host this CAN 2027.

African football: five questions for the 2022-2023 season

African football: five questions for the 2022-2023 season

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