Hakimi is the primary Moroccan since 1998 and the primary defender since 1973 to win Africa’s most prestigious award.
Revealed On 20 Nov 2025
French aspect Paris Saint-Germain footballer Achraf Hakimi has been named African Footballer of the 12 months, turning into the primary defender to say the prize in 52 years.
Moroccan proper again Hakimi completed forward of Liverpool’s Egyptian ahead Mohamed Salah and Nigeria striker Victor Osimhen in Wednesday’s vote on the 2025 CAF Awards within the Moroccan metropolis of Rabat.
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Hakimi was awarded the trophy after serving to PSG to their first ever Champions League title in Could once they bulldozed Italy’s Inter Milan 5-0 within the remaining as a part of a historic treble-winning season wherein additionally they received the Ligue 1 title and the Coupe de France.
In August, PSG additionally beat English aspect Tottenham Hotspur within the UEFA Tremendous Cup to choose up their fourth trophy within the 2025 calendar 12 months.
Hakimi – the primary Moroccan to win the award since Mustapha Hadji in 1998 and the primary defender since Bwanga Tshimen of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, then Zaire, in 1973 – stated it was “actually a proud second”.
“This trophy isn’t just for me however all of the robust women and men who’ve goals of being a footballer in Africa,” he stated.
“And for people who all the time believed in me since I used to be a baby, that I’d be knowledgeable footballer in the future, I wish to thank all of them,” he added.
A recognition that crowns years of exhausting work, success, and unforgettable moments.
My gratitude goes to my household, my teammates, and everybody who works with me on daily basis, on and off the sector. Your belief, dedication, and assist make me stronger and permit me to develop.
Thanks… pic.twitter.com/ZssdnZ2T55
— Achraf Hakimi (@AchrafHakimi) November 19, 2025
Hakimi additionally completed sixth within the males’s 2025 Ballon d’Or rankings in September, the annual award for the world’s greatest footballer, reaching the very best place ever by a Moroccan. His teammate and French worldwide ahead Ousmane Dembele was named the Ballon d’Or winner.
Moroccan footballers additionally picked up the boys’s Goalkeeper of the 12 months award and the Girls’s Footballer of the 12 months awards as they had been awarded to Saudi Arabia-based gamers Yassine Bounou and Ghizlane Chebbak, respectively.
Coronary heart, expertise, impression. By no means unnoticed.
For giving her all, Ghizlane Chebbak is the Girls’s Participant of the 12 months. 🌟🇲🇦#CAFAwards2025 pic.twitter.com/kYSSHtdsi5
— CAF_Online (@CAF_Online) November 19, 2025
Nigerian goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie, who just lately sealed a transfer to the English membership Brighton & Hove Albion within the Girls’s Tremendous League, received the Girls’s Goalkeeper of the 12 months award for a 3rd successive 12 months.
Cape Verde supervisor Bubista was awarded Coach of the 12 months after main the African island nation of 525,000 folks to a debut look at subsequent 12 months’s World Cup in the US, Mexico and Canada.
Cape Verde is not going to be the smallest nation on the World Cup, nevertheless, after the Caribbean island nation Curacao, residence to simply 156,000 folks, certified after a 0-0 draw with Jamaica on Wednesday.
