CAF NEWS
Four CECAFA referees selected for WAFCON 2022 in Morocco
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has selected four referees from the CECAFA region to officiate during TotalEnergies Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) Morocco 2022.
Twelve teams will tussle it out in the competition between July2-23rd in Rabat and Casablanca.
Rwanda’s Salima Mukansanga who is also among the female referees selected to officiate at the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar is among those selected for the WAFCON 2022. The others who are; Lidya Tafesse Abebe (Ethiopia), Shamira Nabadda (Uganda) and Suavis Iratunga (Burundi).
The list comprises of 16 referees, 16 assistant referees and eight Video Assistant Referee (VAR) from 24 countries.
CAF says the process of picking the match officials for the WAFCON 2022 started a few years ago with 226 women match officials that were evaluated over this period.
Uganda Crested Cranes and Burundi are the two teams from the CECAFA region that qualified to play in the WAFCON 2022.
Group A: Morocco, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Senegal
Group B: Cameroon, Zambia, Tunisia, Togo
Group C: Nigeria, South Africa, Burundi, Botswana