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Nigeria have been left without a nominee for CAF's Women's Player of the Year award for the first time since Mercy Akide won the inaugural prize in 1999, ending a streak that has produced 14 Nigerian victories.

As more UEFA Women's Champions League action looms on ESPN in November, as well as the NWSL playoffs, Lyon and Malawi star Tabitha Chawinga is flying for club and country, with sister Temwa Chawinga also in hot form.

After years of dominance, USWNT players no longer land as finalists -- let alone win -- major awards such as the Ballon d'Or.

Krieger picks Chawinga or Shaw to win the women's Ballon d'Or

The past two months have proven that African women's football has moved beyond the era of Nigeria's near-monopoly, and the continent's stars in the NWSL and UEFA WCL shone at the Women's AFCON to prove it.

Kansas City Current forward Temwa Chawinga says individual awards are no longer enough, with the two-time NWSL MVP setting her sights on the one prize still missing from her NWSL collection, a Championship win.

Temwa Chawinga has urged her Malawi teammates to 'fix their minds' and put their Women's Africa Cup of Nations final heartbreak behind them in order to do themselves justice at the FIFA Women's World Cup next year.

Cameroon won their first ever Women's Africa Cup of Nations title by dismantling Malawi 3-0 in Rabat on Sunday, with three goals coming during a one-sided first-half display.

Malawi, ranked 153rd in the world, have reached the 2026 WAFCON Final in their tournament debut.

Appointed barely six weeks before the tournament, Valentine Nguele and Dimitri Lipoff have overcome the odds in taking Cameroon to the WAFCON final.