The 2026 CAF Awards ceremony has been rescheduled to hold on the 2nd of December.
According to a statement released on Tuesday, the African football governing body announced that the event has been moved forward by five days.
No reason given by CAF for the change, but the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and Creative Arts, formerly the National Art Theatre, in Lagos, remains the venue for the ceremony.
The award gala will begin by 7 pm Nigerian time, and the voting process runs until the 20th of November.
CAF had earlier announced in October that the award event would be held on the 7th of December, two weeks after the confederation’s forthcoming Ordinary General Assembly in Abuja.
No Super Falcons player was nominated for the women’s player of the year prize, for the first time since the award’s inception in 2001and no Super Eagles player made the men’s player of the year shortlist for the first time since 2015.
However, Janet Akekoromowei and Flamingos’s Oluwakemi Adegbuyi will be up for the best young talent prize. Edo Queens’ Chriatiana Uzoma is also named in the running for the best goalkeeper award.
The last award gala hosted by Nigeria was on the 6th of January, 2017, when Algeria’s Riyad Mahrez won the men’s best player award, and Asisat Oshoala won the women’s prize.