{"id":227410,"date":"2026-03-20T01:48:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-to-host-caf-african-schools-championship-finals\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T01:48:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:48:05","slug":"zimbabwe-to-host-caf-african-schools-championship-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-to-host-caf-african-schools-championship-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe to Host CAF African Schools Championship Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Zimbabwe is set to host the 2026 CAF African Schools Championship Finals from the April 2 to 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The tournament will see a total of 16 teams competing, with 8 in the boys category and the other 8 in the girls&#8217; division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Now in it&#8217;s fourth year, the CAF African Schools Football Championship was initiated by CAF President Patrice Motsepe in 2021 as a developmental tournament to improve grassroots football in Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Confirming the developments, ZIFA said the tournament shows CAF&#8217;s confidence in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603190671.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe is set to host the 2026 CAF African Schools Championship Finals from the April 2 to 10. The tournament will see a total of 16 teams competing, with 8 in the boys category and the other 8 in the girls&#8217; division. Now in it&#8217;s fourth year, the CAF African Schools Football Championship was initiated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,4380,3742,6843,9777,6937,257,6756,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-227410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-caf","tag-championship","tag-finals","tag-host","tag-news","tag-schools","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227410","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}