African Football Discussion Thread Current Topic: 👉 WAFCON 2026⚽⚽.

[Agbam]

I have not been following up the women competition, i watched highlights of last matches that has already been played and i saw that fans are not even much on the stadium, why is women competition always like this, majority of people don’t even take it serious why is it always like that? I know this are the questions some women may always ask. For me the reason is because men professional football has had over a century to build loyal fan bases but women’s professional football is much younger in many countries and has not built loyal fans and lastly cultural attitudes. This are the reasons why attraction is not seen in women tournaments.

This is just how women football is and you can't compare it with Men's football. Even in Europe that's how it is, you don't see a lot of supporters in women football which I think is majorly due to the intensity of their game it's usually not as interesting as Men's game. You're right Men football has been in existence longer than theirs and has already built a strong fan base. Most investor prefer to invest in Men football and all those things makes it more interesting as well.

I think compared to before their game has even advanced and more interesting than it used to be some years back. In a few years from now their game will keep advancing and soon we will see more people watching their games.

Yeah women football is still growing, so we can expect the ticket sales not to be as much as the male counterparts. European football leagues average a 1000-5000 fans on a regular match though the continental competitions like the Women World Cup and even the Women Euros pull a lot of crowds.

The WAFCON is still doing well atleast some matches have sufficient crowd. I think African fans also don’t like going to the stadium to watch match especially when it’s not in their country.
People don’t travel for the women competitions as much as they do with the men’s own.

[Salahmu]

When a coach is satisfied with what they always get at every WAFCON to introduce new players always become difficult for them and they wouldn't believe that it will help them, although I think it was on the goalkeeper aspects the coach did something because is like they added Comfort Erhabor and Fatima Oloko as there new goalkeepers this year and that was good but they should have also do something on there attacking midfielder because is weak. The team cannot be reshuffle now but definitely after this tournament there would be some work to be done on the club because this squad might not win WAFCON next year.

You are right. When a coach leads a particular set of players to win trophy several times, they  feel too relaxed and comfortable with the that current set of players forgetting to groom new player's that would take over from them when they are no longer active as they used to be.
These current squad have been on existence for quite a long time now and are still very much active though but still the coach needs to bring in new players. Just imagine what is happening as Asumpta Plumpter did not feature this year's tournament and see how our defense is shaking and that prompted Malawi victory over Eagles their first match. If Eagles had have somebody to take over from Plumpter, I believe Malawi would not have been able to equalise that match.

Edit. Even if the coach has won many WAFCON but he is not too experience because of this things we are seeing in the super falcon because all this new players issues would have been something he would have done since because the super falcon wasn't only going to be this squad forever so definitely this would have also help them to see what the mixture of young and old players in the Super falcon will do and besides they are always 25 players in the tournament so actually if they had two young players from there forward, midfield and defense I think what happened with Malawi wouldn't have occurred.