COVID positive players would not be allowed to play AFCON – CAF<\/b><\/p>\n Outfield players to keep post if all goalkeepers are COVID-19 positive \u2013 CAF<\/p>\n Five subs and one additional for extra time allowed for a match \u2013 CAF<\/p>\n The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has indicated that teams left with only 11 players who tested negative for coronavirus would still have to play matches at AFCON 2021.<\/p>\n According to CAF, players with Covid-19 positive results from a PCR test will not be authorized to go to the stadium or participate in the applicable match.<\/p>\n In a statement on its website on January 8, 2022, CAF said, even if all the goalkeepers of a team were COVID-19 positive, an outfield player must replace the goalkeeper.<\/p>\n CAF said in the event that a team has less than 11 players with COVID-19 negative test results the team would be considered to have lost the match by two goals to nothing (0-2)<\/p>\n \u201cA team will be required to play a match if they have a minimum of eleven (11) players available who have tested negative. In the event of the absence of a goalkeeper, another player from the team must replace the goalkeeper, provided the total number of available players is at least eleven.”<\/p>\n \u201cA team that does not have a minimum of eleven (11) players available will be considered to have lost the match 0-2,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n \u201cIn exceptional cases, the Organizing Committee of the Africa Cup of Nations will take the appropriate decision,\u201d CAF added.<\/p>\n CAF, also disclosed that a team would be allowed a maximum of five substitutions during matches and would have only three opportunities to affect the substitution during a match.<\/p>\n However, \u201cunused substitutions and opportunities are carried forward into extra time\u201d and also teams would be allowed one additional (to the five substitutions) where matches go into extra times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Confederation of African Football COVID positive players would not be allowed to play AFCON – CAF Outfield players to keep post if all goalkeepers are COVID-19 positive \u2013 CAF Five subs and one additional for extra time allowed for a match \u2013 CAF The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has indicated that teams left with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":715728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Confederation](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/92995703.295.jpg\" "\\"Confederation")
Confederation of African Football<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n