The African Football Confederation (CAF) has exchanged the dates of the following African Cup of Nations finals to January 2024, six months after the fact than planned, the decision body's leader Patrice Motsepe said on Sunday.
He likewise reported the making of an African Super League next season, which will be officially sent off on August 10.
The two choices were made at a CAF meeting in Morocco and will probably start contention, remarkably the Cup of Nations dates which again conflict with club responsibilities for the overwhelming majority of the players.
The finals were because of be played in June one year from now in the Ivory Coast, which stays as host.
Be that as it may, worries over the climate in west Africa in mid-year have directed a change.
"We accepted a ton of counsel and we concluded we can't face a challenge," Motsepe told a news gathering.
"We would rather not risk that our top rivalry will be cleaned out."
He didn't respond to an inquiry concerning why it had taken such a long time for CAF to roll out the improvement, given it had been cautioned of the stormy season when it was declared it would happen in mid-2023.
CAF moved the facilitating of its mainland title to mid-year in 2019 to keep away from the club versus country tussle for its top players.
In any case, weather conditions concerns and the Covid-19 pandemic made the last version be played in Cameroon in January, reigniting grumblings from clubs in Europe compelled to surrender their African players to public obligation in mid-season.
"January isn't the most ideal time in light of the fact that the European clubs would rather not discharge their players however we must choose between limited options," Motsepe added.
He indicated that CAF would now have the option to delay qualifying matches planned for September to permit it's five World Cup finals delegates an opportunity to sort out harder friendlies against nations from different landmasses as a component of their development for Qatar.
"We believe should do all that could be within reach to help our public groups who are going to Qatar," Motsepe said.
He wouldn't give any insights regarding the cosmetics of the new Super League, which he said wouldn't supplant Africa's current Champions League.
He said there would be a send off at the CAF Congress in Arusha, Tanzania in August.
"We will have an all out modification of all club installations for every one of the rivalries," he added.
An African Super League has been mooted for a considerable length of time, first proposed by Fifa president Gianni Infantino who demanded it would tempt more supporters to the African game.
The idea has met with a muffled reaction in Africa rather than the intense resistance to a comparative proposition in Europe last year, which immediately scuppered the thought.
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