Supervisor Elham AbolFateh
Editor in Chief Mohamed Wadie

CAF Announces Deadline for Interclubs Engagement


Tue 01 Sep 2020 | 04:15 PM
Mohamed Helba

The Confederation of the African Football (CAF) on Tuesday has announced the 20th October, the deadline for National Associations to confirm club engagements in next year’s continental club championships.

In a statement, the Football's governing body in Africa that the registration process will start from today till October 20.

CAF urged all affiliated National Associations to submit their club engagements in the CAF Interclubs competitions; Champions League and Confederation Cup for the 2020-21 season according to the announced dates.

The Regulations for the Interclubs registration process are as follows:

Engagement window: 1 September – 20 October 2020

Member Associations (MA) are requested to register their representatives on the CAF Content Management System (CMS) guided by the following scenarios;

- For MA’s that completed the 2019/20 season, the engaged teams shall be the teams qualified from their national competitions for 2019/20 in accordance with the criteria of engagement as stated in Articles 2 and 3 Chapter 4 of the regulations.

- For MAs that did not complete the 2019/20 season but set a criteria to classify the teams or homologate the standings in the national competitions for 2019/20, the engaged teams shall be the teams qualified from the national competitions 2019/20 in accordance with the criteria of engagement as stated in Articles 2 and 3 Chapter 4 of the regulations.

- For MAs that could not complete the 2019/20 season and considered the season canceled, the engaged teams will be the same representatives for the 2019/20 Interclubs season taking into consideration the quota of each association according to their ranking.

- For MAs yet to complete their season or unable to finish before the engagement deadline, they will be requested to choose one of the above-mentioned criteria to determine their representative(s) subject to the approval of CAF