WAFCON 2026 Leaves African Women’s Football With a Bigger Platform

The 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations ran from 25 July to 16 August in Morocco, putting the continent’s women’s game at the centre of the football calendar. The tournament’s close is a useful moment to look beyond one result and focus on the bigger opportunity: more coverage, better investment and stronger domestic pathways.

For Nigerian fans, African women’s football should not be treated as an afterthought. The audience is there when the storytelling is strong, the players are visible and every big match is given the same energy as the men’s game