{"id":220658,"date":"2026-01-16T11:01:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-malawi-wafcon-2026-super-falcons-to-open-title-defence-against-zambia-egypt-malawi\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:01:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:01:52","slug":"egypt-malawi-wafcon-2026-super-falcons-to-open-title-defence-against-zambia-egypt-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-malawi-wafcon-2026-super-falcons-to-open-title-defence-against-zambia-egypt-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt\/Malawi: Wafcon 2026 &#8211; Super Falcons to Open Title Defence Against Zambia, Egypt, Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The draw, held on Thursday by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), placed the defending champions in Group C<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Nigeria&#8217;s Super Falcons will return to Morocco in March to defend their Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) title after being drawn in a tricky group for the 2026 tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The draw, held on Thursday by the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cafonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Confederation of African Football<\/a><\/strong> (CAF), placed the defending champions in Group C alongside Zambia, Egypt and debutants Malawi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601160076.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The draw, held on Thursday by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), placed the defending champions in Group C Nigeria&#8217;s Super Falcons will return to Morocco in March to defend their Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) title after being drawn in a tricky group for the 2026 tournament. The draw, held on Thursday by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":220659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,6874,4697,415,53424,18943,5028,257,5983,254,9095,6675,24869,4709],"class_list":["post-220658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-defence","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptmalawi","tag-falcons","tag-malawi","tag-news","tag-open","tag-south-africa-today","tag-super","tag-title","tag-wafcon","tag-zambia"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}