CAF Awards

CAF Awards
First awarded	2001
Website	http://www.cafonline.com

The CAF Awards is an awards evening held to honour the best African association football players. It is conferred by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).

Current Awards

The awards include:

CAF Player of the Year

Main article: African Footballer of the Year

CAF Most Promising Talent of the Year

Year	Player Name	National Team	Club
2015	Etebo Oghenekaro	Nigeria	Warri Wolves
2014	Yacine Brahimi	Algeria	Porto
2013	Kelechi Iheanacho	Nigeria	Manchester City
2012	Mohamed Salah	Egypt	Basel
2011	Souleymane Coulibaly	Ivory Coast	Tottenham Hotspur
2010	Kwadwo Asamoah	Ghana	Udinese
2009	Dominic Adiyiah	Ghana	Milan
2008	Salomon Kalou	Ivory Coast	Chelsea
2007	Clifford Mulenga	Zambia	Pretoria University
2006	Taye Taiwo	Nigeria	Olympique Marseille
2005	John Obi Mikel	Nigeria	Chelsea
2004	Obafemi Martins	Nigeria	Internazionale
2003	Obafemi Martins	Nigeria	Internazionale
2002	Mido	Egypt	Ajax
2001	Pedro Mantorras	Angola	Benfica

CAF Youth Player of the Year

Year	Player Name	National Team	Club
2015	Victor Osimhen (♂)	Nigeria	Ultimate Strikers Academy
2014	Asisat Oshoala (♀)	Nigeria	Rivers Angels

CAF Coach of the Year

Year	Manager	Club/National Team
2015	Hervé Renard	Ivory Coast
2014	Kheïreddine Madoui	ES Sétif
2013	Stephen Keshi	Nigeria
2012	Hervé Renard	Zambia
2011	Harouna Doula Gabde	Niger
2010	Milovan Rajevac	Ghana
2009	Sellas Tetteh	Ghana U20
2008	Hassan Shehata	Egypt
2007	Yemi Tella	Nigeria U17
2006	Manuel José	Al Ahly
2005	Stephen Keshi	Togo
2004	Okey Emordi	Enyimba
2003	Kadiri Ikhana	Enyimba
2002	Bruno Metsu	Senegal
2001	Bruno Metsu	Senegal
2000	Cecil Jones Attuquayefio	Accra Hearts of Oak SC

African Inter-Club Player of the Year (Based in Africa)

Year	Player Name	National Team	Club
2015	Mbwana Samatta	Tanzania	TP Mazembe
2014	Firmin Ndombe Mubele	DR Congo	Vita Club
2013	Mohamed Aboutrika	Egypt	Al-Ahly
2012	Mohamed Aboutrika	Egypt	Al-Ahly
2011	Oussama Darragi	Tunisia	Espérance
2010	Ahmed Hassan	Egypt	Al-Ahly
2009	Trésor Mputu	DR Congo	TP Mazembe
2008	Mohamed Aboutrika	Egypt	Al-Ahly
2007	Amine Chermiti	Tunisia	Étoile du Sahel
2006	Mohamed Aboutrika	Egypt	Al-Ahly
2005	Mohamed Barakat	Egypt	Al-Ahly

African Inter-Club Team of the Year

Year	Club	Nation
2015	TP Mazembe	DR Congo
2014	ES Sétif	Algeria
2013	Al-Ahly	Egypt
2012	Al-Ahly	Egypt
2011	Espérance Sportive de Tunis	Tunisia
2010	TP Mazembe	DR Congo
2009	TP Mazembe	DR Congo
2008	Al-Ahly	Egypt
2007	Etoile du Sahel	Tunisia
2006	Al-Ahly	Egypt
2005	Al-Ahly	Egypt
2004	Enyimba	Nigeria
2003	Enyimba	Nigeria
2002	Zamalek	Egypt
2001	Kaizer Chiefs	South Africa

African National Team of the Year

The team of the year award was organized by France Football from 1980 to 2004, and by CAF from 2004 onwards.

Year National Team 1980 Algeria 1981 Algeria 1982 Algeria 1983 Ghana 1984 Cameroon 1985 Morocco 1986 Morocco 1987 Cameroon 1988 Cameroon 1989 Cameroon

Year National Team 1990 Cameroon 1991 1992 Ivory Coast / Nigeria 1993 Nigeria 1994 Nigeria 1995 Tunisia 1996 South Africa 1997 Morocco 1998 Egypt 1999 Tunisia

Year National Team 2000 Cameroon 2001 Senegal 2002 Senegal 2003 Cameroon 2004 Tunisia 2005 Tunisia 2006 Ghana 2007 Senegal 2008 Egypt 2009 Algeria

Year National Team 2010 Ghana 2011 Botswana 2012 Zambia 2013 Nigeria 2014 Algeria 2015 Ivory Coast

Ranking by team

Team	First	Second	Third
Cameroon	7 (1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 2000, 2003)	4 (1981, 1982, 1986, 2002)	1 (1993)
Algeria	5 (1980, 1981, 1982, 2009, 2014)	3 (1985, 1990, 2015)	3 (1987, 1989, 2010)
Nigeria	4 (1992, 1993, 1994, 2013)	3 (1980, 2001, 2014)	6 (1983, 1984, 1988, 1998, 2002, 2004)
Tunisia	4 (1995, 1999, 2004, 2005)	2 (1996, 1997)	0
Morocco	3 (1985, 1986, 1997)	4 (1993, 1998, 2003, 2004)	1 (1980)
Ghana	3 (1983, 2006, 2010)	1 (2005)	5 (1981, 1982, 1992, 2009, 2015)
Senegal	3 (2001, 2002, 2007)	0	1 (1985)
Egypt	2 (1998, 2008)	7 (1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1989, 2006, 2010)	1 (1990)
Ivory Coast	2 (1992, 2015)	2 (2009, 2011)	3 (1994, 2006, 2012)
Zambia	1 (2012)	2 (1988, 1994)	2 (1996, 1997)
Botswana	1 (2011)	0	0
South Africa	1 (1996)	0	0
Angola	0	1 (1995)	0
Burkina Faso	0	1 (2013)	0
Cape Verde	0	1 (2012)	0
Mozambique	0	1 (1995)	0
Ethiopia	0	0	1 (2013)
Libya	0	0	1 (2014)
Mali	0	0	1 (2003)
Niger	0	0	1 (2011)
Togo	0	0	1 (2005)

African Women's National Team of the Year

The team of the year award was organized by CAF since 2010.

Year National Team 2010 Nigeria 2011 Cameroon 2012 Equatorial Guinea 2013 No vote 2014 Nigeria 2015 Cameroon

CAF Legend award

Year	Legend Name	Country
2015	Charles Gyamfi Samuel Mbappé Léppé	Ghana Cameroon
2014	Oryx Douala Stade Malien	Cameroon Mali
2013	Bruno Metsu	France
2012	Rigobert Song Mahmoud El-Gohary	Cameroon Egypt
2011	Mustapha Hadji Jay-Jay Okocha	Morocco Nigeria
2009	Jesus Stephen Keshi Jules Bocandé	Angola Nigeria Senegal
2008	Christian Chukwu	Nigeria
2005	Rabah Madjer	Algeria
2004	Pierre Kalala Mukendi Mahmoud El Khatib George Weah	DR Congo Egypt Liberia
2003	Roger Milla Salif Keïta Kalusha Bwalya	Cameroon Mali Zambia

CAF Female Player of the Year

Main article: African Women Footballer of the Year

Year	Player Name	Country
2015	Gaëlle Enganamouit	Cameroon
2014	Asisat Oshoala	Nigeria
2012	Genoveva Añonma	Equatorial Guinea
2011	Perpetua Nkwocha	Nigeria
2009	Perpetua Nkwocha	Nigeria
2008	Alice Mattlou	South Africa
2007	Cynthia Uwak	Nigeria
2006	Cynthia Uwak	Nigeria
2005	Perpetua Nkwocha	Nigeria
2004	Perpetua Nkwocha	Nigeria
2003	Adjoa Bayor	Ghana
2002	Alberta Sackey	Ghana
2001	Mercy Akide	Nigeria

CAF Referee of the Year

Year	Referee	Country
2015	Bakary Gassama	Gambia
2014	Bakary Gassama	Gambia
2013	Djamel Haimoudi	Algeria
2012	Djamel Haimoudi	Algeria
2011	Noumandiez Doué	Côte d'Ivoire

CAF Team of the Year

Main article: CAF Team of the Year

Defunct Awards

The following are no longer awarded.

CAF Goalkeeper of the Year

Yearf	Player Name	National Team	Club
2008	Essam El-Hadary	Egypt	Al Ahly
2007	Essam El-Hadary	Egypt	Al Ahly
2006	Essam El-Hadary	Egypt	Al Ahly
2005	Tony Sylva	Senegal	Lille O.S.C.
2004	Ali Boumnijel	Tunisia	FC Rouen 1899
2003	Idriss Kameni	Cameroon	Espanyol
2002	Tony Sylva	Senegal	AS Monaco
2001	Essam El-Hadary	Egypt	Al Ahly

African Champions League Best Player

Replaced by African Inter-Club Player of the Year (Based in Africa) since 2005.

Previous winners:

Year	Player Name	Club	Country
2004	Vincent Enyeama	Enyimba	Nigeria
2003	Dramane Traore	Ismaily	Mali
2002	Hicham Aboucherouane	Raja Casablanca	Morocco
2001	Flavio Amado	Petro Atletico	Angola

International Goal of the Year

Year	Player Name	Country
2004	Benni McCarthy	South Africa
2003	Leslie Manyathela	South Africa
2002	Papa Bouba Diop	Senegal
2001	Zoubier Baya	Tunisia

See also

• African Footballer of the Year
• FIFA World Player of the Year
• European Footballer of the Year
• Asian Footballer of the Year
• Oceania Footballer of the Year
• Onze d'Or
• World Soccer Magazine

References

General

• "GLO-CAF Awards". CAF. 28 November 2012. Retrieved 28 November 2012.
• "Arsenal's Adebayor wins Caf award". BBC Sport. 11 February 2009. Retrieved 11 February 2009.
• "Adebayor named Africa's best". FIFA. 11 February 2009. Retrieved 11 February 2009.

Specific

External links

• CAF Online
• A book of an Italian publisher about African football