The decision was taken at a meeting of the CAF Executive Committee in Kigali, chaired by the CAF President Dr Patrice Motsepe.

The final will be played at Casablanca's Mohammed Stadium, according to well-informed sources.

Benin will host the final of the 2020/2021 Confederation Cup, the CAF added.

The Executive Committee also approved the decisions of the Emergency Committee relating to the postponement of the African qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 which were supposed to be played in June 2021.

The qualifiers will now take place in the existing windows of September, October and November 2021, and March 2022, the CAF pointed out in a press release.

The Committee took note, on the basis of a documented presentation, of the state of football infrastructure in the continent and took stock of the needs.

The presentation proposed a plan to finance the necessary improvements to the tune of $ 1 billion, which will need to be carefully considered.

The EXCO has been informed of the implementation of the training program for an elite body of referees within CAF. This program is as a result of about USD 1 million per year collaboration agreement signed with FIFA. It aims to contract referees who will be paid, monitored and trained by FIFA / CAF technical and physical instructors.

The President of CAF informed the Executive Committee of the decision of the Motsepe Foundation to donate USD 10 million to CAF to finance the CAF-Pan-African Schools Football Championship.

The Committee approved the CAF-Pan-African Schools Football Championship as part of the CAF competitions.