{"id":447128,"date":"2017-12-14T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/14\/change-in-dates-for-caf-club-competitions-will-begin-in-2018\/"},"modified":"2017-12-14T15:00:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T15:00:28","slug":"change-in-dates-for-caf-club-competitions-will-begin-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/14\/change-in-dates-for-caf-club-competitions-will-begin-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Change in dates for CAF club competitions will begin in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Thursday, 14 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-14<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/21427022.295.jpg\" alt=\"CAF Logo3\" title=\"CAF Logo3\" width=\"295\" height=\"199\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>CAF has changed the dates for its club competitiobs<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817976607\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817976607\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513263628_735_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has outlined how the dates for its club competitions will begin to change in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>CAF has explained the move to holding the tournaments between August or September and May the following year is not to fit in with European clubs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The change is not to fit with European clubs but to match the schedule of more than 75% of the leagues on the continent,&#8221; the CAF director of communication Junior Binyam told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will also allow us to have a player registration period for the Caf competitions that matches the period most countries follow already.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will also align things according to the new timeline of our flagship tournament, which is the African Cup of Nations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From 2019 the Nations Cup will be held in the June or July rather than from the current dates of January to February.<\/p>\n<p>In the past African Champions League and the second-tier Confederation Cup took place in a calendar year, in 2017 they ran from February until November from.<\/p>\n<p>For 2018 similar dates will be followed but then the competitions will begin again in December 2018 and be completed by May 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The new regular window for both tournaments will then begin in either September or October 2019 and finish by May 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The change in dates to all the competitions was approved July&#8217;s meeting of the Caf executive committee in Morocco, following a symposium on the future of the game in Africa.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 55 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Thursday, 14 December 2017 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2017-12-14 CAF has changed the dates for its club competitiobs The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has outlined how the dates for its club competitions will begin to change in 2018. 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