The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has released their list of the top 10 players nominated for African Player of the Year 2022.

The list includes Senegal captain and African Champions League title holder Sadio Mane of Senegal and his former Liverpool teammate Mohamed Salah of Egypt, along with Algerian captain and Manchester City player Riyad Mahrez.

Al-Ittihad named Chelsea English goalkeeper, Senegalese Edward Mendy, Cameroonian Karl Toko Ekambi (Lyon, France), his compatriot Vincent Abu Bakr (Saudi Arabia victory), Ivorian Sebastian Haller (Borussia Dortmund, Germany), Guinean Nabi. Keita (Liverpool, England), as well as Moroccan Ashraf Hakimi (Paris Saint-Germain, France), Kalidou Koulibaly (Italy) and Kalidou Koulibaly (Italy),

The name of the winner will be announced at a ceremony organized in Rabat, the capital of Morocco, on July 21, as it is known that the participants in the vote are leaders and coaches of African teams, members of the African Technical Committee. Union. , in addition to a select few publishers.

Salah was crowned with awards in 2017, 2018 and Manet in 2019, while the 2020 and 2021 editions were canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.