Nigeria’s dominance in African girls’s soccer has as soon as once more being underscored because the Confederation of African Football (CAF) formally unveiled nominees for the 2025 CAF Awards.
A number of Tremendous Falcons and Nigerian coaches made the shortlist throughout a number of classes; highlighting the nation’s tremendous energy standing in girls’s soccer on the continent.
The announcement, made by CAF’s Communications Division, celebrates excellent performances between 6 January and 15 October 2025, honouring gamers, coaches, and groups which have excelled throughout the continent.
A technical panel comprising members of CAF’s Growth Committee, former gamers, coaches, and chosen media representatives drew up the lists of 10 nominees per class.
Tremendous Falcons nicely represented
Nigeria’s Tremendous Falcons, reigning African champions, lead the cost within the Ladies’s Participant of the Yr class with Esther Okoronkwo of AFC Toronto and Rasheedat Ajibade of Paris Saint-Germain among the many 10 nominees.
The pair had been instrumental in Nigeria’s triumph on the 2024 Ladies’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in Morocco.
The shortlist additionally contains Zambia’s Barbra Banda and Rachael Kundananji, Ghana’s Portia Boakye, and Malawi’s Tabitha and Temwa Chawinga, reflecting the growing competitiveness of ladies’s soccer throughout the continent.
Nnadozie seeks hat-trick of Goalkeeper titles
Two-time CAF Goalkeeper of the Yr Chiamaka Nnadozie, now with Brighton & Hove Albion, has once more been nominated and can look to retain her crown.
The Nigerian shot-stopper, who additionally gained the Goalkeeper of the Event award on the 2024 WAFCON, faces stiff competitors from South Africa’s Andile Dlamini and Morocco’s Khadija Er-Rmichi, amongst others.
Madugu, Olowookere in Coach of the Yr race
Within the Coach of the Yr class, Nigeria’s Justin Madugu, who guided the Tremendous Falcons to their record-extending tenth continental title, is among the many prime contenders. He’s joined by Bankole Olowookere, who led Nigeria’s U-17 women to the 2025 FIFA U-17 Ladies’s World Cup.
They face a robust discipline together with South Africa’s Desiree Ellis, Morocco’s Jorge Vilda, Ghana’s Lars Kim, and final yr’s winner, Morocco’s Lamia Boumehdi.
Younger stars and membership excellence
Nigeria’s Shakirat Abidemi Moshood of Bayelsa Queens options among the many nominees for Younger Participant of the Yr, underscoring the nation’s rising funding in youth growth.
Bayelsa Queens are additionally shortlisted for Membership of the Yr, becoming a member of Morocco’s AS FAR, South Africa’s Mamelodi Sundowns, and Cote d’Ivoire’s ASEC Mimosas within the prime 10 record of Africa’s elite golf equipment.
Tremendous Falcons, U-17s earn workforce nods
Nigeria’s senior and U-17 girls’s nationwide groups have been nominated within the Nationwide Workforce of the Yr class.
Each groups impressed in continental and world tournaments, with the Tremendous Falcons successful WAFCON and the U-17 facet securing World Cup qualification.
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FULL LIST OF NOMINEES (WOMEN’S CATEGORIES)
Ladies’s Participant of the Yr
Portia Boakye (Ghana / Hapoel Petah Tikva)
Tabitha Chawinga (Malawi / OL Lyonnes)
Temwa Chawinga (Malawi / Kansas Metropolis)
Ghizlaine Chebbak (Morocco / Al Hilal)
Sanaa Mssoudy (Morocco / AS FAR)
Esther Okoronkwo (Nigeria / AFC Toronto)
Rasheedat Ajibade (Nigeria / Paris Saint-Germain)
Mama Diop (Senegal / RC Strasbourg)
Barbra Banda (Zambia / Orlando Satisfaction)
Racheal Kundananji (Zambia / Bay FC)
Ladies’s Goalkeeper of the Yr
Chloe N’Gazi (Algeria / Olympique de Marseille)
Sedilame Boseja (Botswana / Mamelodi Sundowns)
Fideline Ndoy (DR Congo / TP Mazembe)
Habiba Emad (Egypt / FC Masar)
Cynthia Konlan (Ghana / Swieqi United)
Fatoumata Karantao (Mali / USFAS Bamako)
Khadija Er-Rmichi (Morocco / AS FAR)
Chiamaka Nnadozie (Nigeria / Brighton & Hove Albion)
Adji Ndiaye (Senegal / AS Bambey)
Andile Dlamini (South Africa / Mamelodi Sundowns)
Ladies’s Interclub Participant of the Yr
Gaonyadiwe Ontlametse (Botswana / Gaborone United)
Maungo Maponga (Botswana / Gaborone United)
Ami Diallo (Côte d’Ivoire / ASEC Mimosas)
Habibou Ouedraogo (Côte d’Ivoire / ASEC Mimosas)
Ana Maria Nchama (Equatorial Guinea / 15 de Agosto)
Sanaa Mssoudy (Morocco / AS FAR)
Doha El Madani (Morocco / AS FAR)
Oumou Koné (Mali / USFAS Bamako)
Bambanani Mbane (South Africa / Mamelodi Sundowns)
Jamila Rajab (Tanzania / JKT Queens)
Ladies’s Coach of the Yr
Adelaide Koudougnon (Côte d’Ivoire U-17)
Siaka Gigi Traoré (ASEC Mimosas / Côte d’Ivoire)
Lamia Boumehdi (Morocco / TP Mazembe)
Genoveva Anonma (Equatorial Guinea / 15 de Agosto)
Lars Kim (Ghana)
Jorge Vilda (Morocco)
Bankole Olowookere (Nigeria U-17)
Justin Madugu (Nigeria / Tremendous Falcons)
Desiree Ellis (South Africa)
Carol Kanyemba (Zambia U-17)
Ladies’s Younger Participant of the Yr
Habiba Essam (Egypt / Al Ahly)
Habiba Sabry (Egypt / FC Masar)
Stella Nyamekye (Ghana / Fort Lauderdale United)
Doha El Madani (Morocco / AS FAR)
Shakirat Abidemi Moshood (Nigeria / Bayelsa Queens)
Adji Ndiaye (Senegal / AS Bambey)
Esther Maseke Marwa (Tanzania / JKT Queens)
Winfrida Gerald (Tanzania / JKT Queens)
Mercy Chipasula (Zambia / Mighty Wanderers)
Ruth Mukoma (Zambia / Zesco United)
Ladies’s Nationwide Workforce of the Yr
Cameroon U-17
Côte d’Ivoire U-17
Ghana
Mali
Morocco
Nigeria
Nigeria U-17
South Africa
Tanzania
Zambia U-17
Ladies’s Membership of the Yr
Gaborone United (Botswana)
ASEC Mimosas (Côte d’Ivoire)
TP Mazembe (DR Congo)
15 de Agosto (Equatorial Guinea)
USFAS Bamako (Mali)
AS FAR (Morocco)
Bayelsa Queens (Nigeria)
Aigles de la Medina (Senegal)
Mamelodi Sundowns (South Africa)
JKT Queens (Tanzania)
