2026 Women's AFCON: Algeria - Senegal to open, Sunday's schedule
The 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations kicks off with Algeria facing Senegal, while Morocco prepares to host Kenya. Teams are aiming to break past historical performance ceilings in this tournament.
Why it matters
The tournament highlights the growing profile and competitiveness of women's football across the African continent.
Algeria - Senegal, two countries with the same objectiveWhile Algeria makes its seventh appearance at the Women's Africa Cup of Nations, Senegal, for its part, has a much more recent history with the competition, playing for only the fourth time in its history after 2012, 2022, and 2024. But the Lionesses are in a great dynamic, having reached the quarter-finals in their last two campaigns in 2022 and 2024.A glass ceiling that Mame Moussa Cissé's Senegal wants to break in order to finally reach the tournament's last four.
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