The African soccer federation will supply 2,650 PlayerTek GPS units to its 54 member countries under the terms of a new agreement announced on Wednesday by Catapult and the Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF).
The CAF first explored a continental player tracking program units earlier this year to supply its five World Cup qualifiers—Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, Tunisia, and Senegal—with a similar device from a different vendor, FieldWiz. The CAF also planned to distribute to distribute FieldWiz devices to the 49 other national federations as well, but this new agreement signals a change in supplier to Catapult’s PlayerTek.