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CAF qualification for the FIFA Women's World Cup
CAF qualification is the route by which African women's national teams reach the FIFA Women's World Cup, with four direct places for the 2027 tournament in Brazil.
CAF Super Cup
CAF Super Cup (TotalEnergies CAF Super Cup), annual one-off match since 1993 between the CAF Champions League and CAF Confederation Cup winners; Al Ahly hold a record eight titles; 2025 won by Pyramids FC.
CAF Women's Champions League
CAF Women's Champions League (TotalEnergies CAF WCL): Africa's annual women's club football championship, run by CAF since its first edition in Egypt in November 2021; Mamelodi Sundowns and AS FAR are the two-time champions.
Cafe international
Café International, a 1989 tile-placement board game by Rudi Hoffmann, won the Spiel des Jahres 1989; players seat guests from 12 nations at café tables, over one million sold.
Cafu
Cafu (Marcos Evangelista de Morais, born 1970, São Paulo), Brazilian right-back; Brazil's most-capped player with 142 caps; only player in three consecutive World Cup finals, winning 1994 and captaining 2002; starred for São Paulo, Roma, and AC Milan.
Cage Warriors
Cage Warriors, a UK-based MMA promotion founded in 2001, is Europe's longest-running, with 150+ events in 14 countries and over 100 graduates to the UFC, including McGregor, Bisping, and Jędrzejczyk.
Çağlar Söyüncü
Çağlar Söyüncü, Turkish center back born 1996 in İzmir; Altınordu, Freiburg, Leicester City (98 PL apps), Atlético Madrid, Fenerbahçe (contract terminated September 2026), then Çorum FK; Turkey Euro 2020 and 2026 World Cup squads.
Cagliari Calcio
Cagliari Calcio (Rossoblu), Sardinian football club founded 1920, only Sardinian Serie A side; won the 1969-70 Scudetto with Gigi Riva and Manlio Scopigno; plays at Unipol Domus, owned by Fluorsid with a 49% US stake.
Cai Yalin
Cai Yalin (蔡亚林, born 1977, Chengde, Hebei) is a Chinese sport shooter, 2000 Sydney Olympic champion in men's 10m air rifle with an Olympic record 696.4, later coach of Yang Haoran and Hebei shooting administrator.
Cai Yun
Cai Yun (蔡赟), Chinese badminton player born 1980 in Suzhou; with Fu Haifeng won London 2012 Olympic gold, Beijing 2008 silver, and a record four World Championships men's doubles titles.
Cain (role-playing game)
Cain (CAIN) is a narrative horror tabletop RPG by Tom Bloom, co-creator of Lancer and author of Kill Six Billion Demons, in which players run psychic exorcists hunting trauma-born monsters called Sins for a shadow organization.
Cain Velasquez
Cain Velasquez (El Toro, Cardio Cain), born 1982 in Salinas, California, is a retired two-time UFC heavyweight champion and two-time ASU All-American wrestler, later a AAA/WWE wrestler, sentenced to five years in 2025 and paroled in 2026.
Cain's Jawbone
Cain's Jawbone is a 1934 puzzle novel by Edward Powys Mathers, the Observer's Torquemada, whose 100 jumbled pages must be reordered and six murders solved.
Cairn (video game)
Cairn is a 2026 survival climbing video game by the French studio The Game Bakers, guiding professional climber Aava up Mount Kami on PC and PlayStation 5.
Cairngorm Mountain Railway
Cairngorm Mountain Railway: Scotland's only funicular railway and the UK's highest, a 2 km line on Cairn Gorm opened in 2001, closed 2018-2023 and 2023-2025 for structural repairs, reopened February 2025 under HIE ownership.
Cairo Santos
Cairo Santos, born 1991 in Brazil, is an NFL placekicker for the Chicago Bears, the first Brazilian-born NFL player, 2012 Lou Groza Award winner at Tulane, and a 2020 Bears record holder with 27 consecutive field goals.
Caitlin Clark
Caitlin Clark (born 2002) is an American basketball guard for the WNBA's Indiana Fever, the NCAA Division I all-time scoring leader (3,951 points at Iowa), 2024 No. 1 draft pick, WNBA Rookie of the Year, and Time's 2024 Athlete of the Year.
Caitlin Clark effect
Caitlin Clark effect: the surge in WNBA attendance, ratings, merchandise, and investment tied to Caitlin Clark's 2024 Indiana Fever rookie season; attendance +48%, viewership tripled, merchandise +601%, with peer-reviewed studies attributing roughly half the growth to Clark games.
Caitlin Foord
Caitlin Foord is an Australian footballer, born in 1994, who plays for Arsenal in the Women's Super League and for the Matildas, debuting for Australia at 16 in 2011.
Caitlin Ryan Regal
Caitlin Ryan Regal (Caitlin Ryan-Regal, née Ryan) is a New Zealand canoe sprint kayaker, born 1992 in Takapuna, who won K2 500m Olympic gold with Lisa Carrington at Tokyo 2020 in an Olympic best 1:35.785 and retired in 2022.
Caitlyn Jenner
Caitlyn Jenner (born William Bruce Jenner, 1949) is an American Olympic decathlon gold medalist and 1976 world record holder, later a reality TV star who came out as a transgender woman in 2015 and became a Republican political figure.
Cal Fowler
Cal Fowler (Calvin Bernard Fowler, 1940-2013), American basketball guard, St. Francis College star and Akron Goodyear Wingfoots AAU champion; co-captain and playmaker of the 1968 U.S. Olympic gold-medal team, later one ABA season with the Carolina Cougars.
Cal Kestis
Cal Kestis is a fictional Jedi, protagonist of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019) and Jedi: Survivor (2023), played by Cameron Monaghan. A Padawan survivor of Order 66 trained by Jaro Tapal, he fights the Empire with the Stinger Mantis crew and droid BD-1.
Cal Raleigh
Cal Raleigh (Caleb John Raleigh, "Big Dumper"), Seattle Mariners catcher and switch-hitter born 1996; hit record 60 home runs in 2025 for catchers, switch-hitters, and Mariners, won the 2025 Home Run Derby, and finished second in AL MVP voting.
Cal Ripken Jr.
Cal Ripken Jr. (Calvin Edwin Ripken Jr., born 1960), Baltimore Orioles shortstop 1981-2001, 'Iron Man'; record 2,632 consecutive games, two AL MVPs, 3,184 hits, Hall of Fame 2007 first ballot.
Cala della Morte
Cala della Morte, a rocky cove and right-hand surf spot at Santa Marinella, Lazio, Italy, near Rome; named for its dangerous rocky access, it works on large southwest swells.
Calabresella
Calabresella, also Terziglio, is an Italian three-player point-trick card game of the Tressette family: 40-card deck, no trumps, 3s high, bidding (chiamo, solo, solissimo), soloist needs 6 of 11 points; earliest reference 1822.
Calais Campbell
Calais Campbell, born 1986, is an NFL defensive lineman drafted 50th overall in 2008 by the Cardinals; six Pro Bowls, 2017 first-team All-Pro, 2019 Walter Payton Man of the Year, 117 sacks, 19 seasons, Ravens in 2026.
Calamity Mod
Calamity Mod: large Terraria content mod, released 2016, run via tModLoader; adds dozens of bosses, five biomes, Revengeance/Death modes, 50+ songs; development ceased August 2026 after grooming allegations against its absentee owner.
Calandagan
Calandagan, Irish-bred 2021 bay gelding by Gleneagles out of Calayana, Aga Khan Studs, trained by Francis-Henri Graffard; 2025 Longines World's Best Racehorse (130), Japan Cup record 2:20.3, five Group 1 wins.