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Welcome to the Africa task force of WikiProject Football. This task force is dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of association football in Africa.

Scope

Topics covered

• Domestic leagues and their seasons
• Domestic cups and their seasons
• Regional club and national championships and their seasons/editions
• Continental club and national championships and their seasons/editions
• Football clubs
• National teams
• Footballers and managers/coaches

Topics not covered

• International competitions and matches

Participants

To add your name to this list, please add # {{user|username}} below. You may also add the userbox template to your user page.

1. Davykamanzi (talk · contribs)
2. Matty.007 (talk · contribs)
3. Lglukgl (talk · contribs)
4. OluwaCurtis (talk · contribs)
5. Faycal.09 (talk · contribs)
6. Enock4seth (talk · contribs)
7. TheBigJagielka (talk · contribs)
8. Baerry86 (talk · contribs)
9. Olaniyan Olushola (talk · contribs)

To do

• Tag all related articles' talk pages with the |Africa=yes African football task force parameter
• Review importance and quality of existing articles
• Identify articles for creation
• Identify articles for improvement
• Recruit interested Wikipedians (using the invitation template)
• Ensure all new articles have the appropriate categories and a suitable infobox
• Ensure current squads are kept up to date
• Ensure club managers and officials are kept up to date
• Ensure the correct teams are included in the league articles, templates and list of football clubs in Africa article for the start of each season.

Requested articles

If you would like an African football-related article created by the task force, visit the Requested articles page and follow the instructions.

The Requested articles page serves as a guide for members to determine which articles are requested or need to be written. Users are free to place a request on any Africa-related football article here, while task force members (as well as other users) can respond to requests on the same page.

Article alerts

Good article nominees

• 03 Dec 2015 – Didier Drogba (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Dat GuyWiki (t · c); start discussion

Open tasks

Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : See to-do list for Requested articles. Cleanup : Allan Wanga, 2013–14 Uganda Super League, 2013–14 Uganda Big League, 2013 Ligi Ndogo S.C. season Expand : 2015 CECAFA Cup, 2013–14 Somalia League, 2013 Sudan Premier League, 2014 Sudan Premier League, A.F.C. Leopards Good article nominations : 2003 CECAFA Cup, 2012 Kagame Interclub Cup NPOV : Gor Mahia F.C. Photo : Gor Mahia F.C. Stubs : Kevin Omondi (footballer, born 1990) Update : Armée Patriotique Rwandaise F.C., Rayon Sports F.C. Verify : Somalia League, AmaZulu F.C.

Guidelines

All created articles should follow both the Project Manual of Style and Wikipedia's Manual of Style.

Assessment

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Assessment

Football in Africa articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA			13	5			18
B		4	9				13
C		1	31	18			50
Start	3	11	109	148			271
Stub			50	315		24	389
List				11			11
Category					134		134
File					11		11
Portal					4		4
Project					4		4
Template					39		39
Assessed	3	16	212	497	192	24	944
Unassessed						4	4
Total	3	16	212	497	192	28	948

Templates

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Templates

Project banner

Any article related to African football should have its talk page tagged with the following template:

{{WikiProject Football|class= |importance= |Africa=yes}}

The class and importance parameters may be filled in and modified as required in accordance with the scales linked within the template.

Userbox

There is a userbox available for participants. To add the box to your user page or talk page, simply add {{User African football task force}} appropriately.

	This user is a member of the African football task force.

Advertisement

There is a Wikipedia ad available to participants. To advertise this task force on your user page or talk page, simply add {{Wikipedia ads|ad=250}} appropriately. Please note that the ad's number may change over time, so if it does please check the template's documentation to get its correct number.

Wikipedia ads	file info – #250

Invitation

Task force members can help recruit interested Wikipedians or potential members to the task force. One way of doing this is using the template available to participants. To extend an invite to a potential members, simply add {{subst:WikiProject Football - Africa task force invite|header}} to his/her talk page.

As a current or past contributor to Africa-related articles within WikiProject Football, I thought I'd let you know about the Africa task force, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of articles of all kinds related to African football. If you would like to participate, join by visiting the task force page. Thanks! ~~~~

Infoboxes

Further information: Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Templates § Information boxes (infoboxes)

Stub templates

Further information: Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Templates § Stub notices

Resources

• CAF website (general info on African football and the Confederation of African Football)
• FIFA tournaments (details of FIFA tournaments and players)
• rsssf.com (football statisticians bible)
• Irish Times (details on several top flight leagues and players]
• National Football Teams (information on international footballers)
• Football-Lineups (useful source for post 2005 statistics and player profiles)
• Soccerway (teams, stadium and results)