2023 AFCON: CAF Sends Accommodation Of Delegations Guidelines To Nigeria, Other Federations

2023 AFCON: CAF Sends Accommodation Of Delegations Guidelines To Nigeria, Other Federations

Sampson Adedeji

With 52 days to the 2023 African Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast, the African soccer governing body has sent the accommodation of delegations guidelines to all the participating countries, BSNSports.com.ng reports.

The delegation of the football body headed by its Secretary General Veron Omba Mosengo was in Ivory Coast on Wednesday and some key decisions were taken.

Mosengo, in his speech, notified the local federations participating with their teams in the African Cup of Nations, that the local organizing committee will cover the costs of accommodation for only 40 people (23 players in addition to 17 officials from the technical, administrative, and medical staff and the head of the mission). 

According to the regulations, delegations and official missions will be covered from five days before each team’s first match until two days after its last match in the tournament.

Other resolutions in the guidelines

First Each team will have access to eight villas.

Second: In each hotel, there will be two common multi-functional areas for a total of 4 teams. 

Each multi-functional area will contain the following facilities: a restaurant, a gym, a meeting room, and a relaxation area.

Third: Each team will have to submit, through the communications officer, the timetables required for using the common areas according to the dates provided by CAF.

Regarding the unwillingness to stay in a hotel and the possibility of moving to a private hotel: 

“CAF specified the rules for accommodation and subsistence in this case that if any national team wishes to move from a hotel to a private hotel, they must officially notify us of this as soon as possible.”

Possible with them bearing all costs associated with transportation, accommodation, and subsistence in the hotel.