Tanzania, Sudan allowed to field four teams in 2021/2022 CAF competitions

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced that Tanzania and Sudan will field four teams in the 2021/2021 CAF competitions.

Both Tanzania and Sudan national associations are among the 12 highest ranked in the continent.

The two members of the CECAFA region will be allowed to engage two clubs in the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League and the TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup.

According to the ranking the other countries that will field two teams in each competition include; Algeria, Angola, DR Congo, Egypt, Guinea, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia and Zambia.

On Tuesday CAF has released the 2021/22 interclub season schedule. The 2021/22 season will kick-off on 10 September 2021 with the first round of the Preliminaries. The group stages will start next year, February 2022.

“CAF has extended the five substitutions per rule for the 2021/22 Interclubs season. Accordingly, each club will be allowed to register 40 players instead of the regulatory 30. Nine substitutes will be allowed on the bench instead of the regular seven,” said the CAF communication.

The registration of players on the CAF CMS has also been extended to 15 August 2021.