{"id":81855,"date":"2026-01-19T05:32:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81855"},"modified":"2026-01-19T05:32:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:32:53","slug":"super-eagles-earn-n3-56bn-prize-money-at-afcon-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/19\/super-eagles-earn-n3-56bn-prize-money-at-afcon-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Eagles Earn N3.56bn Prize Money at AFCON 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles earned N3.56bn after finishing third at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, sealing the bronze medal with a 4-2 penalty shootout win over Egypt in Casablanca.<\/p>\n<p>The playoff ended goalless in regulation time, with goalkeeper Stanley Nwabali starring by saving two penalties as Nigeria secured their ninth third-place finish at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Moses Simon, Akor Adams, Alex Iwobi and Ademola Lookman converted for Nigeria, while Mohamed Salah and Omar Marmoush missed for Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Senegal were crowned champions after edging hosts Morocco 1-0 after extra time in the final in Rabat. Pape Gueye scored the decisive goal early in extra time.<\/p>\n<p>AFCON 2025 prize money reached a record high, with CAF awarding $10m (N14.23bn) to the champions. Morocco received $4m (N5.69bn) as runners-up, Nigeria earned $2.5m (N3.56bn), while fourth-placed Egypt took home $1.3m (N1.85bn).<\/p>\n<p>CAF President Patrice Motsepe said the increased rewards reflect efforts to strengthen Africa\u2019s premier football competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles earned N3.56bn after finishing third at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, sealing the bronze medal with a 4-2 penalty shootout win over Egypt in Casablanca. The playoff ended goalless in regulation time, with goalkeeper Stanley Nwabali starring by saving two penalties as Nigeria secured their ninth third-place finish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81855","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\/81855","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81857,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81855\/revisions\/81857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}