Mark Gleeson Football Correspondent

Tunisian players celebrate winning the 2004 Nations Cup on home soil

African champions Tunisia dominate the list of nominees for the Caf annual awards ceremony to be held in South Africa next month.

The final list was unveiled on Tuesday to add to the five candidates for the African Footballer of the Year announced last month.

Tunisia, who won the African Nations Cup last February, have a candidate in six of the 10 categories.

The national side is heavily tipped to win the Team of the Year award while their coach Roger Lemerre is nominated for the Coach of the Year accolade.

Lemerre faces competition from Badou Ezaki of Morocco and Okey Emordi, who steered Enyimba to the African Champions League title in December.

After winning a second successive Champions League crown, Enyimba are one of the three nominees for the Club of the Year award along with Tunisia's Etoile Sahel and Hearts of Oak of Ghana.

The three nominees for the best performer in the African Champions League include Enyimba goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama, Ali Zitouni of Esperance and Etoile Sahel's Zoubeir Baya.

Zitouni scored nine goals in the Champions League for the Tunisian giants while Baya was outstanding as captain of the tournament's eventual runners-up.

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Nigeria's Obafemi Martins is again nominated for the Young Player of the Year award which he took for 2003. His opposition this time around comes Marouane Chamakh of Morocco and Egypt's Ahmed Fathi.

The announcement of the African Footballer of the Year will be the high point of the gala on 15 February although at least two of the five candidates are unlikely to make the trip to Durban.

Both Samuel Eto'o and Dider Drogba have committed to pay in the tsunami relief match being organised by Fifa in Barcelona the same day.

Nominees:

African Footballer of the Year: Emmanuel Adebayor (Monaco and Togo), Didier Drogba (Chelsea and Ivory Coast), Samuel Eto'o (Barcelona and Cameroon), Benni McCarthy (FC Porto and South Africa), Jay-Jay Okocha (Bolton Wanderers and Nigeria)

Team of the Year: Ivory Coast, Morocco, Tunisia

Club of the Year: Enyimba (Nigeria), Etoile Sahel (Tunisia), Hearts of Oak (Ghana)

Coach of the year: Okey Emordi (Enyimba, Nigeria), Badou Ezaki (Morocco), Roger Lemerre (Tunisia)

Goalkeeper of the Year: Ali Boumnijel (Club Africain and Tunisia), Vincent Enyeama (Enyimba and Nigeria), Idriss Carlos Kameni (Espanyol, Spain and Cameroon)

Young Player of the Year: Marouane Chamakh (Bordeaux, France and Morocco), Ahmed Fathi (Ismaili and Egypt), Obafemi Martins (Inter Milan, Italy and Nigeria)

Best African Champions League player: Zoubeir Baya (Etoile Sahel, Tunisia), Vincent Enyeama (Enyimba, Nigeria), Ali Zitouni (Esperance, Tunisia)