Schools Championship Africa Futsal Cup of Nations African Youth Olympic Futsal Qualifying Tournament Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations Women Women's Africa Cup of Nations African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification African U-17 Cup of Nations for Women African Schools Championship for Girls Clubs: Africa Super League CAF Champions League CAF Confederation Cup CAF Super Cup CAF Women's Champions League Defunct African Cup Winners' Cup CAF Cup Inter Continental: Defunct Afro-Asian Cup of Nations Afro-Asian Club Championship UEFA–CAF Meridian Cup Regional: CECAFA Cup WAFU Nations Cup Amilcar Cabral Cup COSAFA Cup CEMAC Cup UNIFFAC Cup (U-17) UNAF U-23 Tournament International For men's national teams, the main competition is the Africa Cup of Nations, which began in 1957. In 2009, the CAF began organizing another competition for men's national teams, the African Nations Championship, this time featuring players playing in their respective national leagues. CAF also runs national competitions at Under-20 and Under-17 levels, which also serve as qualification tournaments for the FIFA U-20 World Cup and the FIFA U-17 World Cup respectively. For women's national teams, CAF operates competitions serving as qualification tournaments for the related FIFA-organized tournaments which launched at the exact same year they began formation. As of 2022, the Women's Africa Cup of Nations, launched in 1991 for senior national teams, qualifies 4 teams to the FIFA Women's World Cup and crowns a champion. Both the African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification tournament, launched in 2002 and the African U-17 Cup of Nations for Women, launched in 2008, each crowns no champion but instead qualifies 2 teams to compete at the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup and the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup respectively. Club CAF also runs the two main club competitions in Africa: the CAF Champions League, first held in 1964 as the African Cup of Champions Clubs (or just African Cup) and rebranded in 1997 for the champions of African leagues and the runners-up league-finished teams of the top 12 ranked national associations; and the CAF Confederation Cup, launched in 2004 as a merger of the African Cup Winners' Cup, which begun in 1975, and a third competition, the CAF Cup, which started in 1992, for national cup winners and the 3rd-placed league-finished teams of the top 12 ranked national associations. The CAF Super Cup, which pits the winners of the CAF Champions League against the winners of the CAF Confederation Cup (previously the