The African Nations Championship (CHAN) is likely to end with the implementation of the Africa Nations League, according to the Confederation of African Football (CAF) President Dr. Patrice Motsepe.
The CHAN which was inaurgatred in 2009 has been a biennial football tournament known as the local AFCON, this due to it being exclusively reserved for players based in the respective countries domestic league.
It was a product designed to offer exposure to local-based talent and improve the so called smaller nations on the continent but was a venture that proved not profitable for CAF.
“The CHAN is a spectacular money loser. The first thing I was told when I became the President said ‘Kill the CHAN’. We allocated resources to it because of some countries who said it helped them,” Motsepe said in Rabat on Saturday afternoon.
“I can tell you for certain there is no CHAN anymore. The African Nations League will more than replace that. We will restructure our competitions. Europe doesn’t dictate the calendar. We also have to stop the nonsense that, ‘these people are enemies of those people’.
“We are going to have the best mutually beneficial relationship with Europe, Asia, South America, North America and the rest of the world.”
Motsepe also confirmed that that they will be aiming for a staggering $10-million prize money for the winners of the African Nations League, which will be staged every year after 2028.