African Women's Champions League kicks off this weekend

⚽️ The Confederation Africaine de Football (CAF)'s Women's Champions League kicked off this weekend.

It did not make a big splash in the news as collins okinyo pointed out in a recent post so let's make sure we do give it some spotlight 🔦 . The hype around #womenssports can become global 🌍 .

Here's a quick breakdown on the competition :

📌 8 clubs are competing
🇨🇮 Côte d'Ivoire's Athletico Football Club Abidjan | 🇲🇦 Morocco's FAR Rabat (2022 Champions) and Sporting Club Casablanca (a women's football club founded in 2019) | 🇿🇦 South Africa's Mamelodi Sundowns (if you've followed #AfricaScores, you know that the men's team is competing in the African Football League) | 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea's Huracanes | 🇬🇭 Ghana's Ampem Darkoa | 🇲🇱 Mali's AS Mandé

💰 The winning club will come home with $400,000 prize money

🎟 CAF launched a ticketing platform, allowing fans to purchase tickets for the game (prizes ranging from $0.8 and $2.4 tickets)

📺 The games are being broadcasted on local news channels across sub-saharan Africa, beIN MEDIA GROUP in Europe & MENA and on Youtube. So far the games have accumulated nearly 90k views on Youtube.