Ghana dominated by winning most of the awards in the CAF award function. They beat African Cup of Nations winners Egypt as well as Algeria who excelled in the tournament in Angola in January and at the World Cup in South Africa six monthslater.

Milovan Rajevac also won the Coach of the Year award. The Serbian edged out TP Mazembe’s Senegalese coach Lamine Ndiaye and Egypt boss Hassan Shehata to the continent’s top coaching award.

The Most Promising Player of the Year award was won by Ghana’s Italy-based midfielder Abou Diaby.