Formation 1975 Region served West Africa | Type Sports organization | |
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Extinction 2011 (split into 2 zones) Membership Zone A – 9 members
Cape Verde
Gambia
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Liberia
Mali
Mauritania
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Zone B – 7 members
Benin
Burkina Faso
Côte d'Ivoire
Ghana
Niger
Nigeria
Togo Official language English, French and Portuguese | ||
The West African Football Union (French: Union des Fédérations Ouest-Africaines de Football; Portuguese: União das Federações Oeste Africanas), officially abbreviated as WAFU-UFOA and WAFU, is an association of the football playing nations in West Africa. It was the brainchild of the Senegal Football Federation who requested that the nations belonging to CAF's Zone A and B meet and hold a regular competitive tournament. The union organises several competitions including the WAFU Nations Cup and in 2008 they organised an under-20 championship.
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Current members
The union was founded in 1975 with all the current members, but in 2011 the Confederation of African Football decided to split it into two zones, citing "the organisational issues that face WAFU."
Mauritania is the only WAFU member to also be a member of the Union of Arab Football Associations.
Presidents
The union's current president is actually Amos Adamu, but he was banned for three years from football activity by FIFA over vote-buying claims for the bids of the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups. Kwesi Nyantakyi was appointed interim president in Adamu's absence. Adamu has since appealed the ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.