African Women’s Club Volleyball Champions League: Cameroon’s Finest Head to Cairo with Something to Prove

Two of Cameroon’s best women’s volleyball clubs have touched down in the Egyptian capital, ready to fly the flag at the 2026 African Women’s Club Volleyball Champions League, a tournament running from 11 to 24 April that gathers the continent’s most formidable sides under one roof.

Litto Team and Mayo Kani Evolution are the country’s representatives this year, and the pairing makes a good deal of sense. Litto Team arrive as Cameroon’s reigning league champions and cup winners, while Mayo Kani finished runners-up in both competitions. Between them, they carry the full weight of Cameroonian volleyball’s ambitions onto the Cairo courts.

The two clubs have been far from idle in the months leading up to the tournament. A string of national training camps has kept both squads sharp, and things got particularly interesting at the last championship gathering in Bafoussam, where Mayo Kani beat their long-standing rivals Litto Team in the battle for playoff qualification. That result handed Mayo Kani top spot in the regular season standings, and the confidence it generated appears to have travelled with the team to Egypt. Ranked sixth in 2024 and ninth in 2025, Chelsea Yende and her teammates are quietly determined to climb higher this time around.

Litto Team, meanwhile, have their sights fixed on a top-four finish. It is an ambitious target, no question, but not an unreasonable one for a side that has been sharpening its game under Brazilian coaching influence. Kimora and her colleagues know the level they face, and they are not here simply to make up the numbers.

Before the competition gets underway on 13 April, a technical meeting on Sunday 12 April will bring coaches and officials together to finalise the details. Both clubs spent that same Sunday in focused preparation, with morning training sessions, video analysis, and staff meetings filling the hours. Nothing left to chance.