The Confederation of African Football, CAF, will reward the Super Eagles with N9 billion , $7m, if they win the Africa Cup of Nations final.
The Confederation has raised the tournament winners’ cash prize from $5 million to $7 million.
The Eagles are one of the finalists and have already earned a $4 million cash prize after reaching the quarter final; they take on the hosts on Sunday.
The winners of the African tournament will split $4 million among themselves, while the losing semi-finalists—South Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo—will split $2.5 million. The four quarter finalists will split $1.3 million among themselves.
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In the official statement of the CAF on cash prizes for the competition, they wrote: “CAF has made significant progress over the past two years in increasing the prize money of the AFCON and all its other major competitions,” Motsepe said.
“We have increased the prize money of the AFCON winner to USD 7 000 000 which is a 40% increase from the previous AFCON prize money.
“I am confident that a portion of the prize money will contribute to developing football and also benefit all the football stakeholders, as well as assist our Member Associations with their administrations.”
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