CONFEDERATION of African Football president Dr Patrice Motsepe and club executives from across the continent will attend the launch of the African Club Association on Thursday in Cairo, Egypt, CAF has announced.
According to the continental ruling body,
the ACA meeting will be followed by a press conference to be addressed by Motsepe together with ACA members to be streamed live on CAF platforms.
The African Club Association aims to bring together stakeholders from across the African football landscape, fostering collaboration, innovation, and excellence within the continent’s club football scene, CAF said today.
The kick-off meeting between African clubs and Motsepe was held on October 5, when the CAF boss briefed the African club chairmen about the formation of the African Club Association whose objectives include to protect and promote the interest of African football clubs, CAF explained.
Among the other objectives of the ACA, according to CAF, are to ensure that African football clubs are commercially viable, globally competitive and profitable, and to ensure that referees, match commissioners and VAR operators are respected, credible, independent and world-class.
The ACA also aims to build partnerships with sponsors, the private sector and governments to build stadiums that comply with CAF and FIFA standards and other football infrastructure and facilities in each of the 54 CAF Member Associations, as well as develop African youth talent, academies for boys and girls and improve the quality of African club football to be world class.
The ACA is modelled after the European Club Association, which was founded in 2008 to ‘represent the interests of professional association football clubs in UEFA’.
The ECA, which is recognised by UEFA and FIFA but is independent, says its mission statement is ‘to create a new, more democratic governance model that truly reflects the key role of the clubs’.
