Bingu National Stadium (BNS) will host Ethiopia’s opening home match of the 2023 AFCON group qualifiers against Egypt, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced. This follows Ethiopian Football Federation request to CAF to use BNS as their national stadium is banned to host international matches for lacking minimum requirements as per the CAF Club Licensing criteria. Last week CAF gave BNS a temporal approval to host international matches following an inspection that was carried out by CAF Inspector Ivan Lengwe Mumba from Zambia. Malawi will play Ethiopia at the BNS on June 2 and the East Africans will remain in the country to host Egypt four days later. “Ethiopia FA wrote us a few days ago requesting us to facilitate their use of BNS for home matches.

Source: Ethiopian News May 13, 2022 10:32 UTC