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The Confederation of African Football or CAF (French: Confédération Africaine de Football, Arabic: الاتحاد الأفريقي لكرة القدم, romanized: al-Ittiḥād al-Afrīqī li-Kurat al-Qadam) is the administrative and controlling body for African association football.
CAF represents the national football associations of Africa, runs continental, national, and club competitions, and controls the prize money, regulations, and media rights to those competitions. CAF is the biggest of the six continental confederations of FIFA. Since the expansion of the number of teams at the World Cup finals to 32 in 1998, CAF has been allocated five places, though this was expanded to six for the 2010 tournament in South Africa, to include the hosts. However in 2017 the FIFA Council further expanded the tournament to a 48 team starting from 2026 which will see CAF been allocated 9 places in the tournament. Adding to the intercontinental playoff tournament involving six teams to decide the last two FIFA World Cup places (46+2), CAF will have an opportunity of 10 places.
