Desiree Ellis retains CAF Women's Coach of the Year award

Banyana Banyana coach Desiree Ellis continued to make history after she was named CAF Women’s Coach of the Year for the fourth time at the 2023 CAF Awards in Marrakech, Morocco.

The same award, which she won in 2018, 2019, and 2022, is still held by the Banyana Banyana coach, who led South Africa to their first-ever TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations and second FIFA Women’s World Cup appearance.

Thanks to Ellis’s tactical prowess and dominance, which only gets better with time, no coach has previously won the CAF Women’s Coach of the Year title except Ellis.

Ellis received nominations from Reynald Pedros of Morocco and Jerry Tshabalala, a fellow countryman who recently won the CAF Women’s Champions League with Mamelodi Sundowns in Cote d’Ivoire.