CAF AWARDS: Fauzia Najjemba, Fazila Ikwaput miss out on the podium

The Ugandan duo of Fauzia Najjemba and Fazila Ikwaput will not make the podium for the 2023 CAF Awards.

The two were initially listed in respective categories before trimming the nomination lists.

Ikwaput had been nominated for the Women's Player of the Year award, but she has been excluded with the list now down to ten.

The ten-lady list includes three South Africans (Andile Dlamini, Hildah Magaia, Thembi Kgatlana) and two Nigerians, including Asisat Oshoala and Chiamaka Nnadozie.

Three Moroccans, Ghizlane Chebbak, Anissa Lahmari and Fatima Tagnaout, while Cameroonian Ajara Njoya and Zambian Barbra Banda have made the cut as well

On the other hand, Najjemba had been included in the Women's Young Player of the Year category but still needed to make the final list of five.

The final five include the Nigerian duo of Deborah Abiodun and Esther Ajakaye, South African Thubelihle Shamase, Ghanaian Comfort Yeboah and Morocco's Nesryne El Chad.

Meanwhile, Najjemba and Ikwaput have had excellent years of their own with their clubs, Dynamo Moscow and Kampala Queens FC, respectively, as well as the Crested Cranes.