Planet Sport Football Africa

On this week's show we focus on the 2018 CAF Champions League and Confederation Cup, which begin this weekend, with clubs from all over Africa playing in preliminary round games. We hear from the coach of upcoming Zambian club Zanaco, who just missed out on a quarter-final place last year.
We have lots of views on how Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will get on at Arsenal, as he scored on his debut. And Stuart reviews the latest round of EPL games, including the extraordinary contest between Liverpool and Tottenham.

On this week's show we talk about Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang as his move to Arsenal makes him Africa's most expensive player ever. We also talk about the US Major League Soccer and have an interview with Ghana international striker David Accam, who's at the Philadelphia Union, so how strong is the league there? Plus the latest on the EPL.

On this week's show we catch up on the latest at the African Nations Championship in Morocco, where the hosts and Nigeria are both looking good, along with Zambia. We have a great interview with Nigeria forward Peter Odemwingie, who's played in Nigeria, France, England and, somewhat surprisingly spent most of last year playing in Indonesia. Also Stuart has a tribute to Cyrille Regis, a great pioneer for black players in England and across the world who died earlier this month.

On this week's show we talk about the 2018 African Nations Championship. While Morocco are doing a good job as hosts, they are also in the running to stage the 2026 World Cup. We've been talking to a Moroccan journalist who feels that winning the World Cup bid is out of the question. Also we go back to the recent CAF awards, and speak to the winner of the African Young Player of the Year award, Patson Daka of Zambia. Daka feels that the Zambia national team is growing into a major force. Plus a look at the EPL title race and a look at the problems at Arsenal.

On this week's show we focus on the 2018 African Nations Championship, the CHAN, which starts this weekend in Morocco. It's a wide-open tournament, and Cameroon are hoping to do well. We speak to their coach, Indomitable Lions legend Rigobert Song. Also we go back to last week's CAF awards, where Liverpool and Egypt's Mohamed Salah took the 2017 African Footballer of the Year title. Stuart has a profile of Salah.

On this week's show we look ahead to the football action in 2018, where the Fifa World Cup is the main attraction. We speak to Daniel Amokachi, who has played for Nigeria in two World Cups and coached the Super Eagles at two editions of the tournament. Amokachi is extremely optimistic about Africa's chances this time around.

We look ahead to the knockout stage of the Uefa Champions League, we catch up on the latest in the EPL after a very busy couple of weeks. And Stuart profiles the EPL's only black manager, Brighton's Chris Hughton.

On this week's show we look back at our highlights of 2017 on the show, with some of our best interviews. We spoke to many players and officials, among them FIFA president Gianni Infantino, 1978 African Footballer of the Year Abdul Razak of Ghana, and Nigeria's Odion Ighalo.

On this week's show we focus on football in Cameroon, where it's been a year of mixed fortunes in football. After becoming surprise winners of the AFCON with a young team, the Indomitable Lions then were very uninspiring at the Confederations Cup in Russia and failed to qualify for next year's World Cup. But a national Football Academy has just been set up, and we find out more. And we speak to Nigeria and Chelsea winger Victor Moses, looking back at 2017 and telling us about his childhood – he arrived in England as an asylum-seeking orphan, and ended up as a Premier League player.

On this week's show we talk about football in Uganda, and we have an interview with Cranes striker Emmanuel Okwi. Okwi has over 50 appearances for Uganda and is currently playing in Tanzania. Also we ask which African national team showed the most improvement in 2017 – Uganda are certainly a contender. And we catch up on the latest in the EPL.

On this week's show we focus on women's football in Africa. A year ago Cameroon hosted the Women's AFCON, it was an opportunity to grow the women's game, but the situation right now is not good. We have a special report from Cameroon. And we take a look at the draw for the 2018 World Cup, it's generally a tough-looking draw for Africa.