{"id":72842,"date":"2025-08-12T11:47:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72842"},"modified":"2025-08-12T11:47:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:47:46","slug":"caf-approves-only-abuja-uyo-stadiums-for-2025-26-continental-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/12\/caf-approves-only-abuja-uyo-stadiums-for-2025-26-continental-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"CAF Approves Only Abuja, Uyo Stadiums for 2025\/26 Continental Matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Confederation of African Football (CAF), has approved only two stadiums in Nigeria to host matches for the 2025\/26 CAF Champions League and Confederation Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Following a thorough inspection, CAF confirmed that the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja, and the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, are the only venues that meet its stringent infrastructure and facility standards.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Nigeria\u2019s four continental representatives; Remo Stars and Rivers United (CAF Champions League), and Kwara United and Abia Warriors (CAF Confederation Cup), will play all their home fixtures at either of the two approved stadiums.<\/p>\n<p>With both CAF tournaments running concurrently, football authorities will need to coordinate fixture schedules, pitch maintenance, and logistics to avoid clashes and preserve playing conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), is expected to work closely with stadium managers to ensure seamless hosting of multiple high-profile games throughout the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The Confederation of African Football (CAF), has approved only two stadiums in Nigeria to host matches for the 2025\/26 CAF Champions League and Confederation Cup. Following a thorough inspection, CAF confirmed that the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja, and the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, are the only venues that meet its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":72843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72844,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72842\/revisions\/72844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}