19th November, 2024
Super Eagles and Atalanta forward, Ademola Lookman has made it to the final shortlist for the men’s category of the 2024 CAF Best Player Awards.
The other players in the shortlist are Achraf Hakimi (PSG/ Morocco), Simon Adingra (Brighton/Cote d’Ivoire)
Serhou Guirassy (Dortmund/Guinea) Ronwen Williams (Mamelodi Sundowns/South Africa).
Making it to the final nominee list for the Best Goalkeeper of 2024 is Super Eagles and Chippa United goalkeeper, Stanley Nwabali.
In the category, Nwabali is contending with Williams, Manchester United and Cameroon goalkeeper Andre Onana, Ivory Coast’s Yahia Fofana and Egypt goalkeeper Mostafa Shobeir.
In the coach’s category are Ivory Coast’s coach Emerse Fae, Pedro Goncalves (Angola), Sebastien Desabre (DR Congo), Marcel Koller (Al Ahly) and Hugo Broos (South Africa).
The CAF Awards will hold in Marrakech, Morocco on 16th December.
See full list below:
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Simon Adingra (Cote d’Ivoire / Brighton & Hove Albion)
Serhou Guirassy (Guinea / Borussia Dortmund)
Achraf Hakimi (Morocco / Paris Saint-Germain)
Ademola Lookman (Nigeria / Atalanta)
GOALKEEPER OF THE YEAR
Andre Onana (Cameroon / Manchester United)
Yahia Fofana (Cote d’Ivoire / Angers SCO)
Mostafa Shobeir (Egypt / Al Ahly)
Stanley Nwabali (Nigeria / Chippa United)
Ronwen Wlliams (South Africa / Mamelodi Sundowns)
INTERCLUB PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Issoufou Dayo (Burkina Faso / RS Berkane)
Ahmed Sayed ‘Zizo’ (Egypt / Zamalek)
Hussein El Shahat (Egypt / Al Ahly)
Mostafa Shobeir (Egypt / Al Ahly)
Ronwen Wlliams (South Africa / Mamelodi Sundowns)
COACH OF THE YEAR
Pedro Goncalves (Angola)
Emerse Fae (Cote d’Ivoire)
Sebastien Desabre (DR Congo)
Marcel Koller (Al Ahly)
Hugo Broos (South Africa)
YOUNG PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Karim Konate (Cote d’Ivoire / Salzburg)
Oumar Diakite (Cote d’Ivoire / Reims)
Yankuba Minteh (Gambia / Brighton & Hove Albion)
Eliesse Ben Seghir (Morocco / AS Monaco)
Lamine Camara (Senegal / AS Monaco)
CLUB OF THE YEAR
Al Ahly (Egypt)
Zamalek (Egypt)
RS Berkane (Morocco)
Mamelodi Sundowns (South Africa)
Esperance Sportive de Tunis (Tunisia)
NATIONAL TEAM OF THE YEAR
Cote d’ivoire
DR Congo
Nigeria
South Africa
Sudan
