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Black Queens nominated for CAF team award

Ghana is one of ten nominees. The nomination recognises the team, but it is not an award win. CAF has set the ceremony for 7 December in Lagos.

By Ernest · 3 November 2026

Ghana's Black Queens line up before a match against Zambia.
Ghana's Black Queens line up before a match against Zambia. Archive photograph, Accra, 2024, not the 2026 awards announcement. Photo: Esthee2010 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and Kaaklo mark added; adapted image shared under the same licence.

Ghana's Black Queens have been nominated for Women's National Team of the Year at the 2026 CAF Awards. CAF published the ten-team nominee list on 3 November, and the Ghana Football Association confirmed Ghana's nomination the same morning.

Who else is nominated?

Ghana joins Algeria, Cape Verde, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa on the list.

This is a nomination, not a winner announcement. The source posts checked for this article do not announce a winner or a public voting route.

Black Queens players on the pitch against Zambia.
Black Queens players on the pitch against Zambia. Archive photograph, Accra, 2024, not the 2026 awards announcement. Photo: Esthee2010 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and Kaaklo mark added; adapted image shared under the same licence.

When are the awards?

CAF's Executive Committee announcement sets the 2026 ceremony for Monday, 7 December, in Lagos, Nigeria.

For supporters in Ghana and abroad, the next thing to watch is CAF's official awards coverage. Do not treat the nominee list as a match fixture, a ticket offer or confirmation that Ghana has won.

A Ghana goalkeeper during the match against Zambia.
A Ghana goalkeeper during the match against Zambia. Archive photograph, Accra, 2024, not the 2026 awards announcement. Photo: Esthee2010 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and Kaaklo mark added; adapted image shared under the same licence.

Sources and image note

The photographs show the Black Queens in Accra in 2024. They are not photographs of the awards or the current squad announcement. Commons lists 14 August 2024 while camera metadata records 23 February 2024; no exact match date is asserted here. Sources checked 3 November 2026.