Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Africa task force

Welcome to the Africa task force of WikiProject Football. This task force is dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of association football in Africa.

Attention, task force participants!
The CAF website revamped in 2019, making hyperlinks from articles about all CAF events and competitions from 2014 until the end of that year currently non-reachable, causing Wikipedians like you, I.P. users and WP Bots alike to resort to archived links from the Wayback Machine for preservation. As of, contains this link contains the earliest archived info page about events on 29 January 2013 which could be very useful here on WP going foward. Since 21 March 2023, this user,, has been around articles related or affiliated to this article's topic switching over links currently on related articles here to reflect the changes on the website. This notice will be removed once the link switch-overs are completed. Thanks for your attention. Intrisit (talk) 15:00, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Scope

 * Topics covered
 * Domestic leagues and their seasons
 * Domestic cups and their seasons
 * Regional club and national championships and their seasons/editions
 * Continental club and national championships and their seasons/editions
 * Football clubs
 * National teams
 * Footballers and managers/coaches


 * Topics not covered
 * International competitions and matches

Participants
To add your name to this list, please add  below. You may also add the userbox template to your user page.

To do

 * Tag all related articles' talk pages with the yes African football task force parameter
 * Review importance and quality of existing articles
 * Identify articles for creation
 * Identify articles for improvement
 * Recruit interested Wikipedians (using the invitation template)
 * Ensure all new articles have the appropriate categories and a suitable infobox
 * Ensure current squads are kept up to date
 * Ensure club managers and officials are kept up to date
 * Ensure the correct teams are included in the league articles, templates and list of football clubs in Africa article for the start of each season.

Requested articles
The Requested articles page serves as a guide for members to determine which articles are requested or need to be written. Users are free to place a request on any Africa-related football article here, while task force members (as well as other users) can respond to requests on the same page.

Guidelines
All created articles should follow both the Project Manual of Style and Wikipedia's Manual of Style.

Project banner
Any article related to African football should have its talk page tagged with the following template:

The class and importance parameters may be filled in and modified as required in accordance with the scales linked within the template.

Userbox
There is a userbox available for participants. To add the box to your user page or talk page, simply add  appropriately.

Advertisement
There is a Wikipedia ad available to participants. To advertise this task force on your user page or talk page, simply add  appropriately. Please note that the ad's number may change over time, so if it does please check the template's documentation to get its correct number.

Invitation
Task force members can help recruit interested Wikipedians or potential members to the task force. One way of doing this is using the template available to participants. To extend an invite to a potential members, simply add  to his/her talk page.

Resources

 * CAF website (general info on African football and the Confederation of African Football)
 * FIFA tournaments (details of FIFA tournaments and players)
 * rsssf.com (football statisticians bible)
 * Irish Times (details on several top flight leagues and players)
 * National Football Teams (information on international footballers)
 * Football-Lineups (useful source for post 2005 statistics and player profiles)
 * Soccerway (teams, stadium and results)