Senegal pockets two million dollars for winning 2022 CHAN 

By Olusola Adebayo 

Senegal has been rewarded with two million dollars after winning the 2022 edition of the Championship of Africa Nations, CHAN.

Senegal defeated host and favorite Algeria in the final played at the Nelson Mandela stadium in Algiers on Saturday.

The pulsating match ended goalless after ninety minutes end to end attacking football but the Terenga Lions prevailed through the lottery of penalty kicks by winning 5-4 after six shootouts with Algeria missing two of their own and Senegal only losing one.

Confederation of African Football, CAF declared 7.9 million US dollars as the total prize after a 60% increment review of the previous amount of 5.45 million US dollars.

This year’s CHAN winner, Senegal receive prize money of US$2,000,000 compared to the US$1,250,000 received by the previous champion, Morrocco two years ago in Cameroon.

The runners-up, Algeria get US$800,000 while the third, Madagascar and fourth-placed, Niger  teams receive US$500,000 each.

The four sides that fail to progress beyond the quarter-finalists get US$400,000 each.

The two countries that finish second in the groups of three teams will earn US$300,000 each, the same amount as countries that finish third in groups of four teams.

The bottom-placed teams in all the groups earn US$200,000 each.

According to CAF President Dr. Patrice Motsepe, the new prize regime is in line with the organization’s strategy to increase the commercial value of all African competitions.

The 7th edition of the tournament ended in Algeria on Saturday with the Terenga Lions becoming the first West African nation to win the Championship, as well as becoming the first country to win both the AFCON and CHAN in the same year.

The CHAN is played by players that ply their trade in clubs based in their country, I.e home-based professionals.