Until former Celtic director Haughey's deal the competition was without a sponsor for 17 months, since brewer Tennent's ended its 18-year association with the cup.
The Caf executive committee took the decision to bring the Nations Cup in line with the World Cup and the European Championships, both of which have brought in the new ruling.
The Heineken Cup final takes place in Cardiff on 21 May, with the Challenge Cup final the night before, also in the Welsh capital.
"As a competitor and as a passionate players with the Ryder Cup, the Spanish have been a fantastic asset to our team over the years, starting with Seve Ballesteros, through Jose Olazabal and Miguel Angel Jimenez, " said Montgomerie.
He still would have walked off with the gold cup at the playoffs.
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It is a tactic some clubs have used in the past and a risk he didn't want to take, especially not with the World Cup on the horizon.
O'Neill has never reached the quarter-finals of the FA Cup as a manager before, a strange anomaly for a manager who has won the League Cup twice with Leicester and the Scottish Cup on three occasions with Celtic.
If so, that would be convenient timing for South Africa, with the World Cup being staged in the middle of that year.
Harbhajan will now miss the June triangular series in Bangladesh against the host nation and Pakistan, along with the Asia Cup later on in the month.
For Rangers, it proved to be a night of deep frustration, the second of the four prizes available to them slipping away, with the Scottish Cup final against Queen of the South to follow on Saturday.
It's a huge year for both with the World Cup and Paralympics coming up in the next six months, and Sunday represents a huge opportunity in front of a big audience.
With the World Cup 2014 and Olympics 2016 approaching, the Rio state authorities are starting to tackle a situation that has been in violent free-fall for decades.
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The man with the golden boots put the magic in the cup with some sublime pieces of trickery that had the home fans on their feet and some bemused Millwall players on their backside.
With the CIS Cup final to look forward to, Thompson knows the club is in capable hands.
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And I had to be at my desk, at my office, with the first cup of coffee, a legal pad and write the first word at 5:30, five days a week.
And with the FA Cup final between Chelsea and Portsmouth to be played at the venue on 15 May - as well as three Football League play-off finals, the Blue Square Premier play-off final, FA Trophy and FA Vase finals and England's World Cup warm-up match against Mexico during the month - Wembley Stadium announced on Sunday that work had begun on a new surface.
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The African qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup are to be combined with the preliminaries for the 2010 African Nations Cup finals.
Falcons now have a fortnight's break from Premiership action, with their involvement in the European Challenge Cup beginning with the trip to Petrarca Padova on Saturday.
He has only played in nine games but his past with the World Cup is different.
The big focus is the end of the season with the World Cup coming up.
If they don't, calls for a re-jig of Ireland's team will get louder with the World Cup just seven months away.
"I see all these guys obsessed with the European Cup, " he says.
He admitted that he was surprised to be given the chance now he is 30 and with the World Cup three years away.
He sends Chinese architectural and construction teams abroad to study stadiums in Europe, South America and, with the World Cup construction boom, in South Africa.
Other countries have their own complicated relationships with the World Cup.
But it was West Ham who deserved the victory after a lacklustre display from the home side with the FA Cup final just six days away.
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