{"id":238650,"date":"2026-07-13T18:51:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-totalenergies-caf-womens-afcon-2026-zambia-ready-to-challenge-for-a-first-continental-title\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T18:51:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:51:55","slug":"zambia-totalenergies-caf-womens-afcon-2026-zambia-ready-to-challenge-for-a-first-continental-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-totalenergies-caf-womens-afcon-2026-zambia-ready-to-challenge-for-a-first-continental-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Afcon 2026 &#8211; Zambia Ready to Challenge for a First Continental Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">After finishing third in 2022 and falling short of expectations at the 2024 edition, Zambia head to the TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2026 determined to establish themselves among Africa&#8217;s elite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">With one of the continent&#8217;s most feared attacking units and new head coach Nora H\u00e4uptle at the helm, the Copper Queens will be aiming to lift the Women&#8217;s AFCON trophy for the first time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nickname: Copper Queens<\/li>\n<li>Appearances: 6<\/li>\n<li>Last appearance: 2024<\/li>\n<li>Best finish: Third place&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607130417.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After finishing third in 2022 and falling short of expectations at the 2024 edition, Zambia head to the TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2026 determined to establish themselves among Africa&#8217;s elite. With one of the continent&#8217;s most feared attacking units and new head coach Nora H\u00e4uptle at the helm, the Copper Queens [&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":[825],"tags":[9488,258,256,3742,7485,9133,257,8479,254,6675,38847,6460,4709,881],"class_list":["post-238650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-caf","tag-challenge","tag-continental","tag-news","tag-ready","tag-south-africa-today","tag-title","tag-totalenergies","tag-womens","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238650","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=238650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238650\/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=238650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}