Ahead of Saturday's Champions League final, KweséESPN present a complete history of Africa's European champions.

We're sure to have another one of the continent's stars adding their name to this exclusive list in Kiev on Saturday, when a Real Madrid team containing Morocco's Achraf Hakimi square off with Liverpool, who have relied on African talent such as Sadio Mane, Joel Matip, Dominic Solanke and, of course, Mohamed Salah this term.

1984: Africa's first European champion was Zimbabwe international...

Mohamed Salah created a piece of history earlier this week by becoming the first African to win the Football Writers' Association's Footballer of the Year award.

For an honour dating back to 1948, Salah's success was perhaps overdue, especially considering the great African players to have graced English football's top flight during the Premier League era, but many would argue that the Egyptian should have been beaten to that distinction by a player who will depart the stage in the next week to...

The final round of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup takes place between Nov. 10 and 14. 

Already qualified: Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal
Places yet to be decided: 2 automatic

Here, we take a look at which nations can still make it to Russia, and how they can get there.

The five winners of the four-nation groups qualify automatically for the finals. There is no other route for African nations to reach the World Cup.

GROUP A

Guinea and Libya have already been eliminated, with Tunisia holding...

Records are tumbling during the transfer window as clubs across the world spend big in order to bolster their squads for the challenges to come.

Neymar's shocking move to Paris Saint-Germain from Barcelona for an eye-watering €222 million deal made headlines around the world, smashing the world transfer record, and there's still much more business to be done before the window closes at the beginning of September.

From an African perspective, there have also been some significant movers, but...

The recent changes to their calendar and tournament expansion announced by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Thursday have been met with delight and scorn in equal measure.

It is hard to please everybody at the best of times, and so the changes to both the format and the timing of competitions were always going to bring reactions on different ends of the spectrum.

But one organisation that will be delighted with the changes is South Africa's Premier Soccer League (PSL), which has long...

On Thursday, the Confederation of African Football's executive committee made a number of far-reaching decisions about the future structure of the organisation and its competitions.

By far the most headline-grabbing were the decisions surrounding the Africa Cup of Nations, or Afcon. CAF's Exco adopted the recommendation of its committees to expand the tournament from 16 to 24 teams, and to kick it down the calendar to the northern summer months of June and July.

Naturally, not everyone agrees, and...