The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has announced the launch the Wafu Cup (Zone B) tournament involving eight teams from the sub-region on Friday in Accra.
The draw for the regional tournament will also be held during Friday’s event at the Media Conference Hall of the Accra Sports Stadium at 11am.
Hosts Ghana will be joined by title holders Togo for the draw for the one-week tournament.
Other countries who will be participating in the competition are Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger.
Senegal, Sierra Leone and Gabon will take part in the tournament as guests.
The countries will be drawn into two groups with the winners of the group progressing to the final while the second placed team in each group will vie for third position.
The competition starts from 21st November, 2013 and will end on 28th November, 2013.
A BRIEF HISTORY ABOUT WAFU
The WAFU Nations Cup (often abbreviated as the WAFU Cup) is an association football competition that is contested by representative teams of theWest African Football Union.
A trophy was commissioned by President Gnassingbé Eyadéma of Togo in 1974 with a view to establishing a regional competition similar to the Africa Cup of Nations tournament.[1] The maiden event was hosted in Abidjan and the hosts Ivory Coast won the tournament.
The West African Nations Cup (Zone 3) commenced in 1982 on an annual basis (not in 1985), and was played until 1987. Meanwhile, in 1983ECOWAS (French:CEDEAO) create another tournament, the CEDEAO Cup (Zone 3) and it was played on a bi-annual basis until 1991.
Zone 2 also had their own tournament created, the Amílcar Cabral Cup, named after the liberator of Guinea-Bissau, Amílcar Cabral.
The West African Nations Cup returned in 2002 as the WAFU Nations Cup, however, officially it was not considered simply as a continuation of the old tournament, and therefore it is a new tournament. The 2002 edition was short-lived after violence broke out in Ivory Coast. Two games of the tournament had been played when it was cancelled. Finally, after an eight-year wait, the tournament returned in April 2010 which Nigeria’s Ogun State hosted and the host nation won.
| Year | Host | Final | Third place match | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Score | Runner-up | Third place | Score | Fourth place | ||||
| WAFU Nations Cup | |||||||||
| 2002 Details |
 Ivory Coast |
Abandoned one day into tournament due to the First Ivorian Civil War. | |||||||
| 2010 Details |
 NigeriaOgun State |
 Nigeria |
2–0 |  Senegal |
 Ghana |
1–0 |  Burkina Faso |
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| 2011 Details |
Nigeria Ogun State |
 Togo |
3–2 | Nigeria |
 Liberia |
3–1 | Ghana |
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| 2013 Details |
 Ghana |
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source : http://graphic.com.gh/Football/ghana-to-launch-wafu-tourney-for-8-african-teams.html
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